Purton

Worth seeing in and around Purton

6 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
   The Spectrum Building (formerly The Renault Distribution Centre)

   The Spectrum Building is a high tech building in Swindon, England, commissioned by the French car company Renault for their UK operations. Designed by the British architect Norman Foster of Foster Associates, it opened in 1982.

   3.8 km · building in Swindon · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Blunsdon railway station

   Blunsdon railway station is a station on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway, a heritage line in Wiltshire, England. The first station on the site was built in 1895 to serve the villages of Blunsdon St Andrew and Broad Blunsdon, north of Swindon, and closed in 1937.

   2.7 km · heritage railway in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Lydiard Park

   Lydiard Park is a 260-acre country park at Lydiard Tregoze, which was its former name, about 3 miles west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, England, in West Swindon parish, near Junction 16 of the M4 motorway. The park, which is included on the Historic England Register of Historic Parks and Gardens at Grade II, surrounds the Grade I listed Lydiard House, a mansion built in the 17th and 18th centuries.

   2.8 km · country park in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Mouldon Hill Country Park

   Mouldon Hill Country Park is a country park to the north west of the town centre of Swindon, within the parish of Haydon Wick and close to Thamesdown Drive. It is owned and managed by Swindon Borough Council.

   2.6 km · country park in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   St Mary's Church, Purton

   St Mary's Church in the village of Purton in north Wiltshire, England, is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Bristol. A large building begun in the 13th century and one of only three churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire, it has been designated as a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.

   600 m · Grade I listed church in Purton, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Swindon and Cricklade Railway

   The Swindon and Cricklade Railway is a heritage railway in Wiltshire, England, that operates on a short section of the old Midland and South Western Junction Railway line between Swindon and Cricklade. Swindon and Cricklade Railway is a registered charity.

   2.7 km · Heritage railway in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Purton

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Birmingham (BHX), 97 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 98 km

Stations

Hayes Knoll railway station, 3.2 km · Purton railway station, 700 m

• Bristol → Purton

  52 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
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• London → Purton

  121 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £13–17
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Purton

  99 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Purton

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

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