Places to visit near Swindon

There’s so much to see in the Chiseldon House Hotel area, whether you want to stay really nearby – in the Marlborough and Chiseldon area, or to see what Swindon and Wiltshire has to offer.

Do you fancy going further afield. We’ve listed various places of interest in Bristol, Bath, Swindon & Oxford, along with the famous White Horses.

Science and Innovation Park, Swindon

Chiseldon

• Chiseldon Iron Age Caldron
  Actual in British Museum, replica in village museum
  
• Chiseldon Local History Group & Museum
  
• Chiseldon World War Army Camp
  
• Chiseldon Windmill (11 min, 7 miles)
  Tower moved to Swindon’s Windmill Hill Business Park
  
• Chiseldon Railway Station (Wikipedia page)
  Opened 1881 closed 1961 and removed
• Chiseldon Railway Path
  Walking or cycling from Chiseldon to Marlborough along old railway line
• Chiseldon Timberland Trail
  Walking or cycling from Chiseldon to Swindon along old railway line

Various places of interest

• Coate Water Country Park (7 min, 3 miles)
  Circular walk round 70 acre lake through wildflower meadows
  
• Lydiard Park (15 min, 9 miles)
  260 acre country park with 18th Century Palladian House
  
• Barbury Castle (12 min, 12½ miles)
  Iron age hill fort
  
• Bincknoll Castle Hillfort (20 min, 10 miles)
  
• The Ridgeway National Trail (8 min ½ mile)
  85 mile chalk ridge walk from prehistory from West Kennett to Ivinghoe Beacon
  
• White Horse Hill Circular Walk (20 min, 9 miles)
  4½ mile circular walk with views of the Vale of White Horse
  
• The Merchant’s House Marlborough (12 min, 7 miles)
  
• National Collections Centre, Science Museum, Wroughton (9 min, 4 miles)
  
• Marlborough College (14 min, 8 miles)
• Savernake Forest (20 min, 10 miles)
  
• Stonehenge (51 min, 30 miles)
  
• Avebury Stone Circle (18 min, 11 miles)
  
• Kennet & Avon Canal (18 min, 11 miles)
• Devizes museum (34 min, 20 miles)
  
• West Kennet Long Barrow (25 min, 13 miles)
  

White Horses

Information from Visit Wiltshire’s website

• Marlborough White Horse (13 min, 8 miles)
• Hackpen White Horse (14 min, 8 miles)
• Broad Town White Horse (16 min, 7 miles)
• Uffington White Horse (21 min, 10 miles)
• Alton Barnes White Horse (26 min, 14 miles)
• Cherhill White Horse (26 min, 15 miles)
• Pewsey White Horse (28 min, 16 miles)
• Devises White Horse (32 min, 20 miles)
• Westbury White Horse (55 min, 30 miles)
  

Cotswolds (25 min, 20 miles)

• Cotswold Water Park (27 min, 19 miles)
  40 square miles over 150 lakes of conservation, wildlife protection and water sports
  
• Cotswold Wildlife Park (37 min, 20 miles)
  
• Roves Farm (21 min, 10 miles)
  
• REME Museum, Chippenham (23 min, 14 miles)
  
• Cotswold Range (26 min, 18 miles)
  
• Longleat Safari Park (65 min, 45 miles)
  
• Laycock Abbey (32 min, 27 miles)
  Fox Talbot Museum and laycock village
  
• The Royal International Air Tattoo (24 min, 17 miles)
  
• Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival (48 min, 36 miles)
  

Westonbirt National Arboretum (36 min, 28 miles)

North Wessex Downs

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

• Swindon McArthur Glen Designer Outlet (16 min, 6 miles)
  
• Swindon Steam GWR Museum (18 min, 7 miles)
  
• Swindon & Cricklade Railway (12 min, 4 mies)
  
• National Trust – Heelis (18 min, 6 miles)
  
• Museum of Computing (16 min, 5 miles)
  
• Wyvern Theatre and Arts Centre
  
• Swindon Town Football Club
  
• Swindon Speedway
  
• Swindon Wildcats Ice Hockey
  

Swindon

• North Wessex Downs
  
• Ramsbury Brewery (12 min, 7 miles)
• Lambourne Stables (17 min, 10 miles)
• Wadsworth Brewery (36 min, 19 miles)
  
• Whitchurch Silk Mill (43 min, 24 miles)
  
• Caen Hill Locks (44 min, 22 miles)
  
• Watership Down (48 min, 35 miles)
  

Bath (52 min, 39 miles)

• Bath Roman Baths
  
• Bath Abbey
  
• Bath Royal Crescent
  
• Bath Fashion Museum
  

Bristol (46 min, 42 miles)

• Tynesfield Victorian Country House
• Bristol Cathedral
• The Mathew, replica of John Cabot sailing ship
  
• SS Great Britain
  
• Aerospace Bristol
  

Oxford (53 min, 33 miles)

• Bodleian Library
• Ashmonelan Museum
• University of Oxford Botanic Garden
• Oxford Castle & Prison
• Magdalen College
• Sheldonian Theatre

Airport

• Bristol Airport (66 min, 51 miles)
• London Heathrow Airport (67 min, 64 miles)
• Gatwick Airport (100 min, 92 miles)
• Southampton Airport (63 min, 58 miles)
• Cardiff Airport (95 min, 88 miles)
• Luton Airport (98 min, 92 miles)
• Birmingham Airport (102 min, 92 miles)
• Bournemouth Airport (90 min, 84 miles)
• Southampton Hearne Airport (92 min, 84 miles)

All travel times are approximate, and depend on traffic conditions.