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Huish

Huish is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wilcot, Huish and Oare, in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Pewsey and 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Marlborough.

The place

Huish is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wilcot, Huish and Oare, in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Pewsey and 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Marlborough. In 2011 the parish had a population of 43. It is on the south-facing edge of the Marlborough Downs, where the downs adjoin the Vale of Pewsey.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Huish

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Oare House

    Oare House is a Grade I listed country house in Oare, Wiltshire, England. The house was built in 1740 for a London wine merchant, Henry Deacon.

    1.2 km · Grade I listed building in Oare, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Alton Barnes White Horse

    Alton Barnes White Horse is a chalk hill figure of a white horse located on Milk Hill, some 914 yards, 1,000 metres, north of the village of Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England. The horse is approximately 180 feet high and 160 feet long, and was cut in 1812, commissioned by local farmer Robert Pile.

    3.8 km · hill figure in Alton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Oare Pavilion

    The Oare Pavilion or Oare Tea House Pavilion is a summer house designed by I. M. Pei for the businessman Henry Keswick and his wife Tessa Keswick at Oare House in Oare, Wiltshire. It was completed in 2003 and is Pei's only building in the United Kingdom.

    600 m · summer house · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints Church, Alton Priors

    All Saints Church in Alton Priors, Wiltshire, England, dates from the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, and is now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.8 km · church in Alton, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Huish

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 93 km · Cardiff (CWL), 108 km
Stations
Pewsey railway station, 3.5 km
  • Bristol → Huish
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–10
  • London → Huish
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £12–16
  • Cardiff → Huish
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £12–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Huish

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Huish. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEvery Easter, hundreds of canoeists set off from Devizes Wharf heading for the Thames at Westminster in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race.

From Wikivoyage: Devizes, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    83 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    201 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    506 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    517 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    554 km

If you know how people move in Huish – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Huish

Huish is 57 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Pewseyvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Altoncivil parish in Wiltshire, UK3.9 km
  • Alton Barnesvillage in Wiltshire, UK3.6 km
  • Oarevillage in Wiltshire, UK1.4 km