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Orcheston

Orcheston (OR-Chest-ton) is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, lying on Salisbury Plain less than a mile north-west of neighbouring Shrewton.

The place

Orcheston (OR-Chest-ton) is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, lying on Salisbury Plain less than a mile north-west of neighbouring Shrewton. The present-day parish combines the two former parishes of Orcheston St Mary and Orcheston St George and includes the hamlet of Elston. In 2011 the parish had a population of 327.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Orcheston

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
    St George's Church, Orcheston

    St George's Church in Orcheston, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 13th 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.

    400 m · church in Orcheston, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Maddington

    St Mary's Church in the Maddington area of Shrewton, Wiltshire, in the west of England, was built in the late 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    1.5 km · church in Shrewton, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Andrew's Church, Rollestone

    St Andrew's Church is in Rollestone Road, Rollestone, Wiltshire, England. It is a redundant Anglican church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.6 km · church in Shrewton, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Orcheston

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 59 km · Cardiff (CWL), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 105 km
  • Bristol → Orcheston
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £7–9
  • London → Orcheston
    128 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £14–18
  • Cardiff → Orcheston
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Orcheston

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 Orcheston. 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

    72 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    192 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    523 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    531 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    567 km

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

Around it

Next door to Orcheston

Orcheston is 55 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Shrewtonvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Tilsheadvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Maddingtonvillage in Wiltshire, United Kingdom2 km
  • Rollestonevillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Elstonhamlet in Wiltshire, England800 m