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West Knoyle

West Knoyle is a small village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, close to the southern edge of Salisbury Plain.

West Knoyle
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The place

West Knoyle is a small village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, close to the southern edge of Salisbury Plain. The village is about 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Mere and 8 miles (13 km) south of Warminster. The A303 trunk road passes 0.75 miles (1,210 m) north of the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Knoyle

3 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
    Clouds House

    Clouds House, also known simply as Clouds, is a Grade II* listed building at East Knoyle in Wiltshire, England. Designed by Arts and Crafts architect Philip Webb for Percy Wyndham and his wife Madeline, it was first completed in 1886, but an 1889 fire necessitated its rebuilding, finished in 1891.

    2.4 km · country house in Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    East Knoyle War Memorial

    The East Knoyle War Memorial is a monument that commemorates the lives of soldiers from East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, who were killed in war. Unveiled on 26 September 1920, it was erected to commemorate 20 soldiers from the parish who died during the First World War.

    3.1 km · War memorial in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England.

    3 km · church in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to West Knoyle

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 48 km · Cardiff (CWL), 86 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 128 km
  • Bristol → West Knoyle
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £6–8
  • Cardiff → West Knoyle
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £12–16
  • London → West Knoyle
    152 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Knoyle

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Warminster, 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

    77 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    172 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    535 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    546 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    561 km

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

Around it

Next door to West Knoyle

West Knoyle is 49 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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