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Laverstock

Laverstock is a village and civil parish on the north-east and east outskirts of Salisbury in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England.

Laverstock
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The place

Laverstock is a village and civil parish on the north-east and east outskirts of Salisbury in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. The parish is shaped like a figure 7 and incorporates Ford hamlet, the eastern half of the former manor of Milford, the area near the ancient settlement of Old Sarum, and part of the Hampton Park district on the edge of Salisbury. In 2021 the parish had a population of 10,277.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Laverstock

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
    Salisbury

    Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately 20 miles from Southampton and 30 miles from Bath.

    1.4 km · cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Salisbury Cathedral

    Salisbury Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Salisbury, England. The cathedral is regarded as one of the leading examples of Early English Gothic design.

    2.1 km · church of England cathedral in Salisbury, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Old Sarum

    Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about two miles north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country.

    2.9 km · site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Diocese of Salisbury

    The Diocese of Salisbury is a Church of England diocese in the south of England, within the ecclesiastical Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the historic county of Dorset, most of Wiltshire, and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey.

    2.1 km · Church of England diocese in the south of England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Clarendon Palace

    Clarendon Palace is a medieval ruin 2+1⁄4 miles east of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. The palace was a royal residence during the Middle Ages, and was the location of the Assize of Clarendon which developed the Constitutions of Clarendon.

    2.3 km · castle in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Martin, Salisbury

    The Church of St Martin, also known as Sarum St Martin, is a Church of England parish church in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The church has a chancel which was built c.1230, a 14th-century tower with spire, and a 15th-century nave with aisles.

    1.5 km · church in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    College of Matrons

    The College of Matrons is a residential building and charity within the Salisbury Cathedral Close, Wiltshire, England. It was constructed in 1682 by Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury, as an almshouse for ten widows of clergy ordained within the diocese of Salisbury.

    2 km · Grade I listed building in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wren Hall

    Wren Hall is a Grade I listed building in Salisbury Cathedral Close, Wiltshire, England. Situated on the west side of Choristers' Green, it was originally part of the attached Braybrook House.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed building in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Old Sarum Castle

    Old Sarum Castle, formerly known as Seresberi Castle, is an 11th century motte-and-bailey castle built in Old Sarum, Wiltshire. It was originally built in timber and it was eventually built in stone, of which the ruins can be seen today.

    2.8 km · castle in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Poultry Cross

    The Poultry Cross is a market cross in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, marking the site of former markets. Constructed in the 14th century and modified in the 18th century, it stands at the junction of Silver Street and Minster Street.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed market cross in Salisbury, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Laverstock

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 74 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 101 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 111 km
Stations
Salisbury railway station, 2.3 km · Old Sarum Airfield, 2.6 km · Salisbury bus station, 1.6 km
  • Bristol → Laverstock
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £8–11
  • London → Laverstock
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £8–10
  • Cardiff → Laverstock
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £14–19
  • 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 Laverstock

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 Laverstock. 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

    54 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    202 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    521 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    548 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    584 km

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

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