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Kilmington

Kilmington is a village and civil parish in the extreme west of Wiltshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Warminster.

The place

Kilmington is a village and civil parish in the extreme west of Wiltshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Warminster. The parish includes the hamlets of Kilmington Common and Norton Ferris.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kilmington

6 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
    Stourhead

    Stourhead is a 1,072-hectare estate at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into Somerset. The estate is about 4 km northwest of the town of Mere and includes a Grade I listed 18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, one of the most famous gardens in the English landscape garden style, farmland, and woodland.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed British house and garden in Wiltshire, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    King Alfred's Tower

    Alfred's Tower is a folly in Somerset, England, on the edge of the border with Wiltshire, on the Stourhead estate. The tower stands on Kingsettle Hill and belongs to the National Trust.

    3 km · folly tower in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    White Sheet Hill

    White Sheet Hill, also known as Whitesheet Hill, is a hill in the English county of Wiltshire. As one of the most westerly areas of downland in Britain the area is noted for its chalky farmland which contains a rich variety of rare and protected fauna and flora.

    3.7 km · hill near Mere, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Former Church of St Michael

    St Michael's Church is a former Church of England church at Gare Hill, Somerset, England. The church, which was designed by William Butterfield and built in 1857–58, has been a Grade II* listed building since 1981.

    3.8 km · church in Gare Hill, Trudoxhill, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bradley House

    Bradley House, or Maiden Bradley House, is a country house in the village of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England, between the great country estates of Stourhead and Longleat. It is the family home of the Duke of Somerset, having been in the Seymour family for over 300 years.

    3.9 km · country house in Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Long Knoll

    Long Knoll is a hill in the West Wiltshire Downs in the west of the English county of Wiltshire. It is a ridge of chalk grassland, some 1.5 kilometres in length, and forms the boundary between the civil parishes of Kilmington to the south and Maiden Bradley to the north.

    2.3 km · mountain in United Kingdom · 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 Kilmington

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 39 km · Cardiff (CWL), 77 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 135 km
  • Cardiff → Kilmington
    79 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £14–19
  • London → Kilmington
    219 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · £22–30
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Kilmington
    205 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · £22–29
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kilmington

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBrittany Ferries provide vehicle and foot passenger services to and from northern Spain, the Normandy ports of Caen and Cherbourg, and St.
  • Get inCondor Ferries provide services normally from Poole to the Channel Islands and St Malo.
  • Get aroundMinibuses , Paddock Wood, Bradley Road, BA12 7JY.

From Wikivoyage: Warminster, 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

    87 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    164 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    529 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    551 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    552 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kilmington

Kilmington is 41 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.