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Lyneham

Lyneham is a large village in north Wiltshire, England, within the civil parish of Lyneham and Bradenstoke, and situated 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Royal Wootton Bassett, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north of Calne and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Swindon.

Lyneham
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The place

Lyneham is a large village in north Wiltshire, England, within the civil parish of Lyneham and Bradenstoke, and situated 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Royal Wootton Bassett, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north of Calne and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Swindon. The village is on the A3102 road between Calne and Wootton Bassett.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lyneham

One place 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
    REME Museum

    The REME Museum, also known as the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Museum, is a military museum of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – the corps of the British Army responsible for the maintenance, servicing, inspection, and recovery of electrical and mechanical vehicles and equipment. The museum holds collections of technological and historical artefacts associated with the work of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

    400 m · military museum of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, started in 1958 in Arborfield, Berkshire · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lyneham

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 54 km · Cardiff (CWL), 96 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 104 km
Stations
MoD Lyneham, 1.9 km · Dauntsey railway station, 3.4 km
  • Bristol → Lyneham
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £4.5–6
  • London → Lyneham
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £13–17
  • Cardiff → Lyneham
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lyneham

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    102 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    191 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    499 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    510 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    535 km

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Around it

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Lyneham is 44 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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