Upavon
Upavon is a rural village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England.
Upavon is a rural village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England. As its name suggests, it is on the upper portion of the River Avon which runs from north to south through the village. It is on the north edge of Salisbury Plain about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Pewsey, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of the market town of Devizes, and 20 miles (32 km) north of the cathedral city of Salisbury. The A345 and A342 roads run through the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Upavon
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.
- 01Casterley Camp
Casterley Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England, about 1+1⁄2 miles south-west of the village of Upavon. The site comprises a large Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure, possibly non-defensive in function, and incomplete.
2.4 km · site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Upavon
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 96 km · Cardiff (CWL), 107 km
- Bristol → Upavon57 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £7–9
- London → Upavon119 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £13–17
- Cardiff → Upavon97 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £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 Upavon
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 Upavon. 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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Upavon is 58 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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