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South Wraxall

South Wraxall is a village and a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Bradford on Avon.

South Wraxall
South Wraxall · Wikimedia Commons
The place

South Wraxall is a village and a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Bradford on Avon. The village is to the west of the B3109 road from Bradford on Avon to Corsham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around South Wraxall

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
    Browne's Folly

    Browne's Folly is a folly tower on the Farleigh Rise near the village of Bathford in Somerset, England. The Folly was designated a Grade II listed building in 1988.

    3.8 km · tower in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Laurence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon

    St Laurence's Church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, is one of very few surviving Anglo-Saxon churches in England that does not show later medieval alteration or rebuilding. The church is dedicated to St Laurence, and documentary sources suggest it may have been founded by Saint Aldhelm around 700, although the architectural style suggests a 10th- or 11th-century date.

    4 km · church in Bradford on Avon, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Thomas A Becket

    The Church of St. Thomas à Becket is the Church of England parish church of Box, Wiltshire, in south-west England.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed church in Box, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon

    The Anglican Christ Church is in the northern Hillside Terraces district of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England. It is in the Bradford Deanery of the Diocese of Salisbury.

    3.5 km · church in Bradford on Avon, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Great Chalfield Manor

    Great Chalfield Manor is an English country house at Great Chalfield, about 2.5 miles northeast of the town of Bradford on Avon in the west of the county of Wiltshire.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed English country house in Atworth, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Monkton Farleigh Manor

    Monkton Farleigh Manor is a Grade I listed country house close to the village of Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire, England. Built on the site of a Cluniac priory founded in 1125, the house is about 3 miles northwest of Bradford-on-Avon and 4 miles east of the city of Bath.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed manor house in Monkton Farleigh, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Holy Trinity Church, Bradford-on-Avon

    Holy Trinity Church, Bradford-on-Avon is a Grade I listed church in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, with 12th-century origins. It is part of the Church of England within the Anglican Communion and Diocese of Salisbury.

    4 km · Grade I listed church in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Hall

    The Hall, at times known as Kingston House and The Duke's House, is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed building in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Hazelbury Manor

    Hazelbury Manor is a Grade I listed manor house in the hamlet of Hazelbury, in the parish of Box, Wiltshire, England. Parts of the house date from the 15th century.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed manor house in Box, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    South Wraxall Manor

    South Wraxall Manor is a Grade I listed country house which dates from the early 15th century, at South Wraxall in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3 miles north of Bradford on Avon. According to popular legend, the house was the first place tobacco was smoked in England, by Sir Walter Long and his friend Sir Walter Raleigh.

    700 m · Grade I listed manor house in South Wraxall, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to South Wraxall

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 33 km · Cardiff (CWL), 76 km · Birmingham (BHX), 124 km
  • Cardiff → South Wraxall
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–11
  • London → South Wraxall
    147 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → South Wraxall
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for South Wraxall

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextBristol — with its many attractions situated around the floating harbour and Avon Gorge, is 12 miles drive or 15 minutes train journey away, and makes an excellent day trip from Bath.

From Wikivoyage: Bath, 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

    101 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    170 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    504 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    534 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    540 km

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

Around it

Next door to South Wraxall

South Wraxall is 26 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bradford-on-Avontown in Wiltshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Boxvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Atworthvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Monkton Farleighvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Box Hillvillage in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Great Chalfieldvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.3 km