Following on from our email earlier this month, here is some additional information to help you travel to this year’s Imberbus event on Saturday 16th August.

Our event attracts hundreds of people and can overload the car parks in Warminster town centre if everyone tries to park there. Fortunately Warminster is well served by buses and trains from the surrounding towns, as well as cities such as Cardiff, Bristol, Bath, Salisbury, Southampton and Portsmouth and so we strongly recommend that you use these if at all possible (further details of these are listed on the “How to get to Warminster” page on our website).

In addition, this year National Express will be running a direct coach from central London and Basingstoke to Imber, tickets for which are now on sale.  Edwards Coaches will be also running a special coach to our event from Swansea, Bridgend, Cardiff and Newport. However tickets for both of these services need to be purchased in advance and capacity is limited, so if you wish to travel on them we would strongly recommend booking as soon as possible.

For those who need to travel to our event by car, in addition to the Warminster Town Centre car parks there are two additional car parking areas you can use:

Chitterne Cricket Field car park is situated in the village of Chitterne and last year was a popular alternative for those driving from Salisbury, London or other locations east of Warminster.  The car park is accessed off St. Mary’s Close which is a turning off the B390 (click HERE to see a map of it) or type BA12 0LR into your Satnav.  The charge for parking at Chitterne will be £5 per car (payable in cash) but please note that the first buses from Chitterne will not depart until 10.49am, although refreshments will be available for purchase in the village hall for those who arrive early! Please also be aware that if you park at Chitterne, you will only be able to purchase your Imberbus tickets by paying the conductor in cash on the bus (and there are no cash machines available at Chitterne).

Imberbus “Early Bird” car park at Sack Hill (about 2 miles from Warminster town centre at the top of the Imber Road).  To find out how to get there from Warminster, please click HERE or type BA12 0DJ into your satnav and when you get to the Land Warfare Centre, keep going up the steep hill (the parking area will be at the top of the hill, about 300 metres past the tank on a plinth !). Our buses will call at the Sack Hill Car Park on their way to Imber and there will be a shuttle bus based there as well, but please note that only 80 cars can be accommodated at this location so it may be full by lunchtime. Also be aware that if you park at Sack Hill, you will only be able to pay in cash to purchase tickets and there will be no other facilities (such as toilets) available there.

Finally, if you are travelling to Warminster by car from the north, please be aware that part of the A350 road is closed in Westbury and all the advance diversion signs will take you on a much longer route. However if you are driving a car, there are two alternative (and shorter) local diversion routes that you can take once you get to the closure point and these can be seen HERE and also HERE.

We hope that you find this information useful and we look forward to seeing you on Saturday 16th August.

The Imberbus Crew