Warminster
Warminster is a delightful market town with a friendly population of around 18,000. The town has many interesting buildings, nearly all of which owe their existence to Warminster's great fame as a successful corn market for several centuries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Warminster railway station and Battlesbury Camp.
Warminster railway station
Railway station
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Warminster railway station serves the historic market town of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. The station is operated by Great Western Railway and is a main station on the Wessex Main Line, with regular services to Bristol, Cardiff, Southampton and Portsmouth.
Battlesbury Camp
Archaeological site
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Battlesbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hill fort on Battlesbury Hill near the town of Warminster in Wiltshire, South West England. Excavations and surveys at the site have uncovered various finds and archaeological evidence.
St John’s Church, Warminster
Church
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St John's Church, in full the Church of St John the Evangelist, is a Church of England church in the Boreham area in the south-east of the town of Warminster, Wiltshire, England. It was built in 1865 and is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westbury and Norton Bavant.
Westbury
Town
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Westbury is a market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. The town lies below the northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain, about 4 miles south of Trowbridge and a similar distance north of Warminster. Westbury is situated 3 miles north of Warminster.
Norton Bavant
Village
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Norton Bavant is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles southeast of Warminster. Norton Bavant is situated 2½ miles southeast of Warminster.
Warminster
- Type: Locality
- Location: Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2151° or 51° 12′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.1741° or 2° 10′ 27″ westElevation
525 feet (160 metres)Open location code
9C3V6R8G+29GeoNames ID
7301029
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