Village in Somerset, England

Farmborough

Farmborough is a village and civil parish, 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Bath in Somerset, England.

Every way there

Cardiff → Farmborough
50 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–11
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London → Farmborough
165 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £17–23
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Farmborough
133 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £14–19
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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 Farmborough, 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 Farmborough has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 17 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesNetham Lock, 13 km; sailings estimated
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. Nearest place with more: Bath, 9 km.

51.343°, -2.484°

It straddles both the A39 and A368 roads. The parish has a population of 1,312.

How locals move

Getting around Farmborough the local way

Go nextBristol — with its many attractions situated around the floating harbour and Avon Gorge, is 12 miles drive or 15 minutes train journey away, and makes an excellent day trip from Bath.

From Wikivoyage: Bath, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Geni (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.