Wroughton
Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
Wroughton is a large village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Located between the M4 motorway and the edge of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape, it lies about 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Swindon town centre, 5 miles (8 km) east of Royal Wootton Bassett, and 7.5 miles (12 km) north of Avebury.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Wroughton
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.
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- 03St Mark's Church, Swindon
Grade II listed church in South Swindon, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
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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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Science Museum at Wroughton
Based on the old RAF Wroughton Airfield, the science museum features numerous display on various science and engineering topics.
From Wikivoyage: Wroughton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Swindon Karting, Hanger C2, Area 1, Hackpen Lane, Wroughton Airfield, SN4 0QJ, mail@swindonkarting.co.uk. Based in a hangar at the former RAF Wroughton airfield, you can race on a 550-metre indoor track using a 270cc go-kart. From £40 per driver.
From Wikivoyage: Wroughton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01White Hart
High Street,.
- 02Great Western Fryer
78 High Street.
From Wikivoyage: Wroughton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Wroughton
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 92 km · Birmingham (BHX), 102 km
- Stations
- Swindon railway station, 3.3 km
- Bristol → Wroughton56 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £6–8
- London → Wroughton116 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £12–16
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Wroughton107 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–17
- 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 Wroughton
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 Wroughton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Wroughton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Wroughton
Wroughton is 57 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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