Town in Wiltshire, England

Amesbury

Amesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

Every way there

Bristol → Amesbury
65 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–10
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London → Amesbury
121 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £12–16
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Cardiff → Amesbury
103 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £13–17
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Amesbury, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Amesbury has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 69 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

51.173°, -1.780°

It is known for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is within the parish. The town is claimed to be the oldest occupied settlement in Great Britain, having been first settled around 8820 BC. The parish includes the hamlets of Ratfyn and West Amesbury, and part of Boscombe Down military airfield.

How locals move

Getting around Amesbury the local way

Get inBournemouth airport is mostly served by charter flights, and a small number of short-haul scheduled flights.

From Wikivoyage: Salisbury (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Diego Delso (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.