Warminster
Warminster is a historic market town and civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England, on the western edge of Salisbury Plain.
Warminster is a historic market town and civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England, on the western edge of Salisbury Plain. The parish had a population of 18,173 in 2021.
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Worth seeing in and around Warminster
10 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.
- 01Longleat Safari and Adventure Park
Longleat Safari and Adventure Park in Longleat, Wiltshire, England, was opened in 1966 as the world's first drive-through safari park outside Africa. It is in the grounds of Longleat House, the home of the 8th Marquess of Bath.
5.8 km · Safari Park in Wiltshire, England · Wikipedia - 02St John's Church, Warminster
St John's Church, in full the Church of St John the Evangelist, is a Church of England church in the Boreham area in the south-east of the town of Warminster, Wiltshire, England. It was built in 1865 and is a Grade II* listed building.
1.1 km · church in Warminster, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Cley Hill
Cley Hill is a prominent hill to the west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. Its summit has a commanding view of the Wiltshire / Somerset county boundary, at 244 metres elevation.
3.6 km · hill in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Portway House
Portway House is a Grade I listed town house in Warminster, Wiltshire, England.
300 m · Grade I listed building in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Mary's Church, Old Dilton
St Mary's Church in Old Dilton, Wiltshire, England was built in the 14th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
4.2 km · church in Dilton Marsh, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury
The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury is the Church of England parish church for the parish of Heytesbury with Tytherington and Knook, Wiltshire, England. It was a collegiate church from the 12th century until 1840.
5.7 km · church in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Battlesbury Camp
Battlesbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hill fort on Battlesbury Hill near the town of Warminster in Wiltshire, South West England. Excavations and surveys at the site have uncovered various finds and archaeological evidence.
2.5 km · site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort on Battlesbury Hill in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Mary
The Church of St Mary at Temple, Corsley, Wiltshire, England is a chapel-of-ease dating from the very early 20th century. It was commissioned and paid for by Mary Barton, of Corsley House, in memory of her husband and son.
4.9 km · church building in Corsley, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Christ Church, Warminster
Christ Church is an Anglican church building serving a parish on the southern side of Warminster, Wiltshire, England.
700 m · church in Warminster, England, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Shearwater
Shearwater is a man-made freshwater lake near Crockerton village, about 2+1⁄4 miles southwest of the town of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. The lake is formed from a tributary of the River Wylye.
3.6 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The Obelisk. A triangular monument of Bath stone, at the junction of Silver Street, Vicarage Street, and Church Street. It was erected in 1873 to commemorate the enclosure of the parish. It stands on the site of the former Emwell Cross Barn. A fountain (now disused), made of gun metal, in the shape of a lion's head, is featured on the east side of this unusual column.
- 01The Parish Church of St
Denys, The Minster, Church St, BA12 8PQ,.
- 02Longleat House
BA12 7JS (follow the brown tourist signs once you get close),.
- 03Stourhead
- 04Longleat Safari Park
Vary by season: open daily through the summer and December, weekends in the spring and autumn, generally closed in winter.
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Things to do
Arn Hill Nature Trail. Arn Hill rises to over 650 ft (200 m) above sea level and its beech woodland was donated to the town by the Marquess of Bath in 1920. The Wiltshire Wildlife Trust have established a Nature Trail around Arn Hill which passes a former lime kiln (now in ruins) and rises above the old-fashioned sheep walks of Kidnapper's Hole (a former chalk quarry which supplied the lime kiln).
- 01Athenaeum Theatre and Arts Centre
The Athenaeum on the north side of the High Street was built in 1858 as a lecture hall and among its early speakers was Oscar Wilde who gave a talk on The House Beautiful.
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Where to eat
Warminster has many restaurants, cafes, takeaways, tearooms and coffee shops, offering something for all tastes. Many local pubs also provide dinners, lunches and bar snacks.
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Getting to Warminster
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 42 km · Cardiff (CWL), 84 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 123 km
- Stations
- Dilton Marsh railway station, 5.2 km · Warminster railway station, 400 m · Heytesbury railway station, 5.8 km
- Bristol → Warminster40 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £4–6
- Cardiff → Warminster76 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £10–14
- London → Warminster147 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £15–20
- 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 Warminster
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 Warminster. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBrittany Ferries provide vehicle and foot passenger services to and from northern Spain, the Normandy ports of Caen and Cherbourg, and St.
- Get inCondor Ferries provide services normally from Poole to the Channel Islands and St Malo.
- Get aroundMinibuses , Paddock Wood, Bradley Road, BA12 7JY.
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Warminster is 40 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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