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Poulshot

Poulshot is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

The place

Poulshot is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. Its nearest town is Devizes, about 2.5 miles (4 km) to the northeast. The parish includes the hamlet of Townsend.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Poulshot

9 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
    Devizes Castle

    Devizes Castle was a medieval fortification in the town of Devizes, Wiltshire, England, on a site now occupied by a Victorian-era castle. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed castle in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Caen Hill Locks

    Caen Hill Locks are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire, England. Of the 107 locks on the canal, those at Caen Hill are numbered 22 to 50, and they are near the canal highpoint at Cadley Lock.

    2.1 km · Flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Town Hall

    Devizes Town Hall is a municipal building in St John's Street in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The structure, which is the meeting place of Devizes Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.7 km · Grade II* listed building in Devizes, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wiltshire Museum

    The Wiltshire Museum, formerly known as Wiltshire Heritage Museum and Devizes Museum, is a museum, archive and library and art gallery established in 1874 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The museum was created and is run by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, a registered charity founded in 1853.

    3.8 km · Museum in Devizes, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Brownston House

    Brownston House is a Grade I listed building on New Park Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, dating from the beginning of the 18th century. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed house in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Market Cross, Devizes

    The Market Cross in Devizes, Wiltshire, England sits in Market Place at the centre of the town. It was constructed in 1814 on the site of an older cross.

    3.7 km · historic monument in Devizes, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Greystone House

    Greystone House is a Grade II* listed house in High Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, England. It was built between 1740 and 1744 with a front of Bath stone to a brick building with a hipped slate roof.

    3.8 km · house in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Kennet & Avon Canal Museum

    The Kennet and Avon Canal Museum is a museum in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, covering the history of the Kennet and Avon Canal. The museum is housed in a former bonded warehouse at Devizes Wharf, approximately 1 mile from the Caen Hill Flight.

    3.9 km · museum in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Peter's Church, Devizes

    St Peter's Church is an Anglican parish church in Devizes, Wiltshire. It is a Victorian building and is on the Bath Road, on the western outskirts of the town.

    3.2 km · church in Devizes, 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.

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Getting to Poulshot

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 47 km · Cardiff (CWL), 90 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 111 km
  • Bristol → Poulshot
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–8
  • London → Poulshot
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £14–18
  • Cardiff → Poulshot
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Poulshot

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEvery Easter, hundreds of canoeists set off from Devizes Wharf heading for the Thames at Westminster in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race.

From Wikivoyage: Devizes, 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

    89 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    184 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    514 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    524 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    550 km

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Around it

Next door to Poulshot

Poulshot is 40 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Devizestown in Wiltshire, England3.7 km
  • Potternevillage in Wiltshire, UK2.5 km
  • Rowdevillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Marstonvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Seendvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Wortonvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, UK2.2 km