Urchfont
Urchfont is a rural village and civil parish in the southwest of the Vale of Pewsey and north of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) southeast of the market town of Devizes.
Urchfont is a rural village and civil parish in the southwest of the Vale of Pewsey and north of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) southeast of the market town of Devizes. The hamlet of Cuckoo's Corner is in the northwest of the village; the parish includes the hamlets of Wedhampton and Lydeway. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 1,075.
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Worth seeing in and around Urchfont
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.
- 01Urchfont Manor
Urchfont Manor is a manor house near the village of Urchfont in Wiltshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles southeast of the market town of Devizes. Originally a private residence, Urchfont Manor was used to house evacuated children during the Second World War.
400 m · manor house in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Urchfont
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 54 km · Cardiff (CWL), 98 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 104 km
- Bristol → Urchfont48 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £6–9
- London → Urchfont128 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £14–18
- Cardiff → Urchfont88 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Urchfont
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 Urchfont. 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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Urchfont is 48 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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