Tilshead
Tilshead is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire in Southern England, about 9 miles (14 km) northwest of the town of Amesbury.
Tilshead is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire in Southern England, about 9 miles (14 km) northwest of the town of Amesbury. It is close to the geographical centre of Salisbury Plain, on the A360 road approximately midway between the villages of Shrewton and West Lavington and is near the source of the River Till. Its population in 2011 was 358, down from a peak of 989 inhabitants in 1951.
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Worth seeing in and around Tilshead
One place 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.
- 01St 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.
3.9 km · church in Orcheston, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tilshead
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 56 km · Cardiff (CWL), 99 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 107 km
- Bristol → Tilshead51 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £6–8
- London → Tilshead131 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £14–18
- Cardiff → Tilshead90 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £12–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Tilshead
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 Tilshead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Tilshead
Tilshead is 51 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Orchestonvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.3 km