Swainswick
Swainswick is a small village and civil parish, 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Bath, on the A46 in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, England.
Swainswick is a small village and civil parish, 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Bath, on the A46 in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 265. The village name was also spelled Sweyneswik and Sweyneswick in the early 13th to 14th Century.
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Getting to Swainswick
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 26 km · Cardiff (CWL), 69 km · Birmingham (BHX), 123 km
- Cardiff → Swainswick58 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–10
- London → Swainswick154 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–22
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Swainswick123 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Swainswick
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 Swainswick. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Swainswick
Swainswick is 18 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.