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Tisbury

Tisbury is a large village and civil parish approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire.

Tisbury
Tisbury · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tisbury is a large village and civil parish approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire. With a population at the 2011 census of 2,253 it is a centre for communities around the upper River Nadder and Vale of Wardour. The parish includes the hamlets of Upper Chicksgrove and Wardour.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tisbury

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
    Fonthill Abbey

    Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Beckford and architect James Wyatt. It was built near the site of the Palladian house later known as Fonthill Splendens, which had been constructed by 1770 by Beckford's father William.

    3 km · country house in Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Old Wardour Castle

    Wardour Castle or Old Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew in the English county of Wiltshire, about 15 miles west of Salisbury. The castle was built in the 1390s, came into the ownership of the Arundells in the 16th century, and was rendered uninhabitable in 1643 and 1644 during the Civil War.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed castle in Wardour, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    New Wardour Castle

    New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed English country house at Wardour, near Tisbury in Wiltshire, built for the Arundell family. The house is of Palladian style, designed by the architect James Paine, with additions by Giacomo Quarenghi, who was a principal architect of the Imperial Russian capital city, Saint Petersburg.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed country house in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fonthill Lake

    Fonthill Lake is a lake in southwest Wiltshire, England. It lies just to the south of the village of Fonthill Bishop, east of the village of Fonthill Gifford, and northeast of Fonthill Abbey.

    2.6 km · lake in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pythouse

    Pythouse, sometimes spelled Pyt House and pronounced pit-house, is a country house in southwest Wiltshire, in the west of England. It is about 2+1⁄2 miles west of the village of Tisbury.

    3.9 km · building in West Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Castle Ditches

    Castle Ditches is the site of an Iron Age trivallate hillfort in the south-east of Tisbury parish in Wiltshire, England. It is probable that its ancient name was Spelsbury; it was referred to as Willburge in Tisbury's charter of 984 A.D. Its shape is roughly triangular, and follows the contours of the small hill upon which it sits.

    2.2 km · site of an Iron Age trivallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Tisbury

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Cardiff (CWL), 95 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 121 km
Stations
Tisbury railway station, 500 m
  • Bristol → Tisbury
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £6–8
  • London → Tisbury
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £15–20
  • Cardiff → Tisbury
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tisbury

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are many ferry services that will get you to the island of Martha's Vineyard.
  • Get inIsland Queen is a ferry service offered in Cape Cod Falmouth.
  • Get inThe MV Quickwater is ferry that leaves from the Fishing Pier in Falmouth.

From Wikivoyage: Tisbury, 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

    69 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    181 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    540 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    541 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    570 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tisbury

Tisbury is 56 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Fonthill Giffordvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Anstyvillage and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, UK3 km
  • Swallowcliffevillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • West Tisburycivil parish in Wiltshire, England2.8 km
  • Wardourvillage in Wiltshire, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Ansty Coombevillage in Wiltshire, UK4 km