Places to explore near Salisbury

Early English Gothic cathedral raised in 38 years from 1220, under England's tallest spire, with an original Magna Carta and Britain's largest close.

0.5 km SW

Vast earthworks of the abandoned original Salisbury.

2.8 km N

Big chalk downland and old hunting country, with some of the darkest night skies in southern England

3.2 km S

An Elizabethan house of triangular plan, its three towers said to stand for the Trinity.

4 km SE

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

4.3 km NE · spans 14 counties

Palladian house with the famous Double Cube Room.

4.7 km W

National Trust chalk down south-east of Salisbury topped by the Pepperbox, a hexagonal 1606 folly tower, with wide views over the Avon valley.

8.4 km SE

Ancient wood pasture and heathland where commoners' ponies still roam free.

10.2 km SE

Chalke Valley village local praised by olive as a best country pub.

11.7 km SW

The most famous prehistoric monument in the world.

12.4 km N

A row of regimental cap-badges cut into the down by soldiers in the First World War — the biggest and most complete group of hill figures in England.

13 km W

A giant kiwi cut into Beacon Hill in 1919 by New Zealand soldiers waiting to go home, complete with the letters NZ.

15 km N

Around Thomas Hardy's Wessex from his birthplace cottage to the churchyard at Stinsford, via Corfe Castle and Lulworth Cove.

16.5 km SW · Dorset & Wiltshire

Classic thatch along the Wallop brook.

16.7 km NE · Hampshire

Riverside priory house with walled rose garden.

18.4 km E

Cranborne Chase village inn from the acclaimed Chickpea Group, an olive gastropub pick.

19 km SW

A rare 18th-century cottage orné above the Test, with lawns running to the water.

20.1 km E

Romantic hexagonal ruin by a lake.

20.9 km W

Marks where William II died hunting in 1100.

21.5 km SE

Famously wide high street; chalk-stream capital of the Test.

21.8 km E · Hampshire

Birds of prey and flying displays across 22 acres.

22.4 km NE

Green, pub and Conan Doyle's grave.

22.5 km SE · Hampshire

Walled-garden restaurant where the menu is built around its own regenerative kitchen garden.

23.6 km W

180-acre arboretum, national collections, huge winter garden.

23.8 km E

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

24.2 km NE

A National Trust place in Wiltshire.

0.4 km SE

A National Trust place in Wiltshire.

0.4 km SW

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire.

5.6 km NE

Eight acres of gardens around a 17th-century house on the Avon near Salisbury, with a Harold Peto Japanese garden, red bridge and tea house.

6.6 km N

An 18th-century pleasure garden laid over a Norman motte and bailey, with a waterside loggia.

9.3 km S

A winterbourne crossing Salisbury Plain, dry at its head through most summers and running hard after winter rain.

10.2 km NW · Wiltshire