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Knook

Knook is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

Knook
Knook · Didier Descouens
The place

Knook is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village lies to the north of the River Wylye at the edge of Salisbury Plain, about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) southeast of Warminster, close to the A36 road to Salisbury.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Knook

3 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
    Church of St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury is the Church of England parish church for the parish of Heytesbury with Tytherington and Knook, Wiltshire, England. It was a collegiate church from the 12th century until 1840.

    1.5 km · church in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Knook Castle

    Knook Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Knook Down, near the village of Knook in Wiltshire, England, but largely within the civil parish of Upton Lovell. It has also been interpreted as a defensive cattle enclosure associated with nearby Romano-British settlements.

    3.1 km · site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Leonard's Church, Sutton Veny

    St Leonard's Church in Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3 km · grade II listed church in Sutton Veny, 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.

Go there

Getting to Knook

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 49 km · Cardiff (CWL), 91 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 118 km
Stations
Codford railway station, 2.4 km · Heytesbury railway station, 1.5 km
  • Bristol → Knook
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £5–7
  • London → Knook
    139 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £15–20
  • Cardiff → Knook
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Knook

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 Knook. 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

    77 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    180 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    529 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    535 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    564 km

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

Around it

Next door to Knook

Knook is 47 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Codfordvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England3.9 km
  • Heytesburyvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England1.1 km
  • Upton Lovellvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England1.5 km
  • Boytonvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Norton Bavantvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Sherringtonvillage in Wiltshire, England3.5 km