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 |
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- Type: Town with 17,500 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in western Wiltshire, England
- Also known as: “Warminster, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Warminster railway station and St John’s Church, Warminster.
Warminster railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
Battlesbury Camp
Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
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 4 miles north of Warminster.
Norton Bavant
Village
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Tytherington
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tytherington is a small village in Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. It lies on the south side of the Wylye valley, about 3+1⁄2 miles southeast of the town of Warminster and 1 mile southwest of the larger village of Heytesbury. Tytherington is situated 3½ miles southeast of Warminster.
Warminster
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.2054° or 51° 12′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.1832° or 2° 10′ 59″ westPopulation
17,500Elevation
394 feet (120 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WAMOpen location code
9C3V6R48+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 29950738OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Warminster” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Warminster”
- Basque: “Warminster”
- Bengali: “ওয়ারমিন্সটার”
- Catalan: “Warminster”
- Cebuano: “Warminster”
- Chinese: “Warminster”
- Chinese: “沃敏斯特”
- Chinese: “沃明斯特”
- Dutch: “Warminster”
- Finnish: “Warminster”
- French: “Warminster”
- German: “Warminster”
- Gujarati: “વોર્મિન્સ્ટર”
- Irish: “Warminster”
- Italian: “Warminster”
- Japanese: “ウォーミンスター”
- Kannada: “ವಾರ್ಮಿನ್ಸ್ಟರ್”
- Korean: “워밍스터”
- Ladin: “Warminster”
- Latin: “Warminster”
- Lithuanian: “Varminsteris”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Warminster”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Warminster”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Warminster”
- Norwegian: “Warminster”
- Persian: “وارمینستر”
- Polish: “Warminster”
- Portuguese: “Warminster”
- Romanian: “Warminster”
- Russian: “Уорминстер”
- South Azerbaijani: “وارمینستر”
- Spanish: “Warminster”
- Swedish: “Warminster”
- Tamil: “வார்மிஸ்டெர்”
- Telugu: “వార్మిన్స్టర్”
- Turkish: “Warminster”
- Urdu: “وارمینستیر”
- Volapük: “Warminster”
- Welsh: “Warminster”
- Yue Chinese: “渥敏士打”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Warminster”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.