Wardour

Worth seeing in and around Wardour

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.

   3.9 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.

   1.4 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.

   300 m · Grade I listed country house in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   3.8 km · site of an Iron Age trivallate hillfort in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Shute House

   Shute House, Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire, England is a former rectory, now a private home, notable for its gardens designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe. About 2+1⁄2 miles east of Shaftesbury, the house and garden are at the very southern edge of Wiltshire, on the border with Dorset.

   3.5 km · house in Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   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.

   2.5 km · building in West Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wardour

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Cardiff (CWL), 95 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 124 km

Stations

Tisbury railway station, 2.6 km

• Bristol → Wardour

  57 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–9
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• London → Wardour

  1 km · quickest by road, 6 min · £0
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• Cardiff → Wardour

  89 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £13–17
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