Wiltshire Travel Guides

Prior Park Landscape Garden

Created by local entrepreneur and philanthropist Ralph Allen, with advice from both the pioneer of landscape gardens the poet Alexander Pope and...

Avebury Stone Circle

One of the most important megalithic monuments in Europe and spread over a vast area, much of which is under Trust protection. The great stone...

Train Stations

Situated just over a mile from the centre of Salisbury, this is a staffed station with a booking office open 05:30 to 20:00 Monday to Saturday and...

Transport Travel Guide

The Salisbury Plain and Swindon region is easily accessible from all directions by road, rail, air and sea.

The M4 motorway passes by...

Driving

The Salisbury Plain and Swindon region has excellent road links to all of the UK, with the M4 passing south through Swindon. The M27 links to...

Broadleas Gardens Charitable Trust Ltd

Great Chalfield Manor

Completed in 1480, the manor house is enhanced by a moat and gatehouse and has beautiful oriel windows and a great hall. The house and garden were...

Stourhead

The 18th century Palladian mansion and gardens at Stourhead are well worth a visit for anyone who appreciates beautiful English country parks....

Philipps House & Dinton Park (National Trust)

Designed by Jeffry Wyatville for William Wyndham, the house was completed in 1820. The principal rooms on the ground floor are open to visitors...

Westwood Manor (National Trust)

The house was altered in the early 17th century and has late Gothic and Jacobean windows and fine plasterwork. There is a modern topiary...

Coate Water Country Park

Buscot Park

The late 18th-century house contains the fine paintings and furniture of the Faringdon Collection Trust. The grounds include various avenue walks...

John Coles Park

Lydiard Country Park

Coaches

Amesbury, bus station, Wiltshire Beckhampton, A4, Wiltshire Box, Wiltshire Chippenham, Bath Road, bus stop nr T.I.C....

Trains

Approx 1 hour 22 mins direct service from London Waterloo Approx 7 hours from Edinburgh, via Bristol or London 2 hours from Cardiff

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Flights

Southampton Airport is handily situated within a mile of junction 5 on the M27. Being around 27 miles south-east of Salisbury via the A36 and M27...

Ferries

Being landlocked, there are no ferry ports within the area itself. The ports at Portsmouth and Southampton however both lie within an hours drive...

The National Trust

The Courts Garden

An example of the English style at its best, the garden is full of charm and variety. There are many interesting plants and an imaginative use of...