Village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England

Tilshead

Tilshead is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire in Southern England, about 9 miles (14 km) northwest of the town of Amesbury.

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Every way there

Bristol → Tilshead
51 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £6–8
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London → Tilshead
131 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £14–18
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Cardiff → Tilshead
90 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £12–16
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The field note

What is in and around Tilshead, 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 Tilshead has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 56 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
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. Nearest place with more: Bath, 33 km.

51.230°, -1.951°

It is close to the geographical centre of Salisbury Plain, on the A360 road approximately midway between the villages of Shrewton and West Lavington and is near the source of the River Till. Its population in 2011 was 358, down from a peak of 989 inhabitants in 1951.

How locals move

Getting around Tilshead the local way

Get inEvery Easter, hundreds of canoeists set off from Devizes Wharf heading for the Thames at Westminster in the annual Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race.

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

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.