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Idmiston

Idmiston is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

The place

Idmiston is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Amesbury and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Salisbury. The parish includes the villages of Porton and Gomeldon; all three villages are on the River Bourne and are linked by the A338 road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Idmiston

5 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
    Porton Down

    Porton Down is a science and defence technology campus in Wiltshire, England, just north-east of the village of Porton, near Salisbury. It is home to two British government facilities: a site of the Ministry of Defence's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory – known for over 100 years as one of the UK's most secretive and controversial military research facilities, occupying 7,000 acres – and a site of the UK Health Security Agency.

    1.3 km · UK government military science park in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints Church, Idmiston

    All Saints Church in Idmiston, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building and is in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.

    0 m · church in Idmiston, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John the Baptist's Church, Allington

    St John the Baptist's Church in the village of Allington, south-east of Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, is a redundant Anglican parish church which was rebuilt in 1851. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building and has been in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches since 2011.

    2.2 km · church in Allington, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Porton Down SSSI

    Porton Down SSSI is a 1,559-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which spans the border between Hampshire and Wiltshire in England. It is adjacent to Porton Down science park near Porton, and much of it is Ministry of Defence property which is closed to the public.

    3.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is a historic church in the village of Boscombe, Wiltshire, England.

    1.3 km · church in Boscombe, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Idmiston

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 75 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 95 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 107 km
  • London → Idmiston
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £12–16
  • Bristol → Idmiston
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Idmiston
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Idmiston

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 Idmiston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBournemouth airport is mostly served by charter flights, and a small number of short-haul scheduled flights.

From Wikivoyage: Salisbury (England), 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

    58 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    206 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    515 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    543 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    580 km

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