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Larkhill

Larkhill is a garrison town in the civil parish of Durrington, Wiltshire, England.

Larkhill
Larkhill · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Larkhill is a garrison town in the civil parish of Durrington, Wiltshire, England. It lies about 1+3⁄4 miles (2.8 km) west of the centre of Durrington village and 1+1⁄2 mi (2.4 km) north of the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge. It is about 10 mi (16 km) north of Salisbury.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Larkhill

10 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
    Stonehenge

    Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet high, seven feet wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones which are held in place with mortise and tenon joints—a feature unique among contemporary monuments.

    2.3 km · Neolithic henge monument in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Woodhenge

    Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles northeast of Stonehenge, in Durrington parish, just north of the town of Amesbury.

    2.1 km · Neolithic henge and timber circle monument near Stonehenge · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

    Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. The WHS covers two large areas of land separated by about 24 kilometres, rather than a specific monument or building.

    2.3 km · World Heritage Site · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Durrington Walls

    Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in England. It lies 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury in Wiltshire.

    1.9 km · the site of a large Neolithic settlement, village; also it enclosed several hedges; · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bluestonehenge

    Bluestonehenge or Bluehenge is a prehistoric henge and stone circle monument that was discovered by the Stonehenge Riverside Project about 1 mile south-east of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. All that remains of the site is the ditch of the henge and a series of stone settings, none of which is visible above ground.

    3.2 km · Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bush Barrow

    Bush Barrow is a site of the early British Bronze Age Wessex culture, at the western end of the Normanton Down Barrows ancient cemetery in Wiltshire, England.

    3 km · archaeological site in Wilsford cum Lake, Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lake House

    Lake House is an Elizabethan country house dating from 1578, in Wilsford cum Lake in Wiltshire, England, about 7 miles north of Salisbury. It is a Grade I listed building.

    5.4 km · Grade I listed house in Lake, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Aubrey holes

    The Aubrey holes are a ring of 56 chalk pits at Stonehenge, named after seventeenth-century antiquarian John Aubrey. They date to the earliest phases of Stonehenge in the late fourth and early third millennium BC. Despite decades of argument and analysis, their purpose is still unknown, although an astronomical role has often been suggested.

    2.3 km · Neolithic monument · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Stonehenge Cursus

    The Stonehenge Cursus is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. It is roughly 3 kilometres long and between 100 metres and 150 metres wide.

    1.6 km · Neolithic cursus monument · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of All Saints

    The Church of All Saints is the Church of England parish church for the village of Netheravon, Wiltshire, England. A church has stood on this site near the River Avon since Saxon times.

    4.4 km · church in Netheravon, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Larkhill

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 66 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 99 km · Cardiff (CWL), 109 km
Stations
Bulford railway station, 4 km · Amesbury railway station, 4.1 km
  • Bristol → Larkhill
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £7–9
  • London → Larkhill
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £13–17
  • Cardiff → Larkhill
    100 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Larkhill

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 Larkhill. 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

    67 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    199 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    517 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    534 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    571 km

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

Around it

Next door to Larkhill

  • Amesburytown in Wiltshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Durringtonvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England2.7 km
  • Netheravonvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom5 km
  • Milstonvillage in Wiltshire, England3.2 km
  • Bulfordvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England3.4 km
  • Figheldeanvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.9 km