How to get to Warminster

Warminster is situated in the county of Wiltshire, approximately 20 miles from Bath and Salisbury and close to the border with Somerset.

Please note that parking in Warminster and the surrounding villages is limited, so we therefore strongly advise you to use public transport to attend our event if at all possible.

For those arriving by public transport, Warminster Rail Station is on the Cardiff-Newport-Bristol-Bath-Salisbury-Southampton-Portsmouth rail line which operates approximately every hour.  Connections are also available at Westbury with trains from Somerset, and Devon.

If you are travelling from the London area there are two easy ways of getting to Imber or Warminster:

  • Special National Express coach 23x at 0830 from London Victoria via Basingstoke then direct to Imber.  The return journey departs Imber at 1710.  Tickets for this service can be booked on line at www.nationalexpress.com using the destination “Imber Village”.  Please note that this service does not call at Warminster, so passengers using it will need to pay for their Imberbus tickets in cash to the conductor on the bus as there are no cash machines or bank card payment facilities available at Imber !
  • Through South Western Railway train at 0850 from London Waterloo, Woking, Basingstoke and Andover direct to Warminster.  Their are several choices of return journey, but please note that they all require a change of train at Salisbury.

If you would prefer to travel by local bus bus, the following bus services run to places served by Imberbus on Saturdays:

  • First service D1 runs to Warminster every hour from Bath, Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge and Westbury.
  • Beeline service 24 runs to Warminster every 2 hours from Salisbury;
  • FromeBus service 53 runs from Frome to Warminster approximately every hour;
  • Faresaver service 272 runs every hour from Bath and Melksham to Devizes, where it connects with bus 270 to West Lavington and Market Lavington;
  • Salisbury Reds service 2 runs approximately every hour from Salisbury and Devizes to Tilshead, Gore Cross and West Lavington.

Please visit the Traveline website during the summer for more details of these services.

Finally, Crossways Travel are running an excursion to Imberbus from the Weymouth and Dorchester area – see www.crosswaystravel.co.uk for more information.

For those travelling by car, Warminster is located at the junction of the A36 and A350 and is near to the infamous A303 ! You should find plenty of parking available Warminster’s Central Car Park which is off station road, so round the corner from the rail station – see map below (for those of you using SatNav, the postcode for Warminster’s Central Car Park is BA12 9BX). Other public car parks are also available (including a small one at the station itself) but please note that normal weekday charges apply at all the town’s car parks on Saturdays. If you are intending to use the Station car park, please watch out for buses manoeuvring around the Station forecourt and be prepared to wait whilst we reverse them into position.

This year we have also arranged for some extra out of town “Park & Ride” parking at Sack Hill (which is about 2 miles from the town centre at the top of the Imber Road) from 10am onwards – please click HERE to see how to get there from Warminster, or type BA12 0DJ into your sat nav 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 but please note that only 80 cars can be accommodated at this location and 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.

A small amount of roadside parking is also available in West Lavington and Market Lavington, but please ensure that you leave plenty of space for the Imberbuses to get past.  Please note that the old Park & Ride site that we used in 2019 is no longer in operation and there is no parking available at Gore Cross Interchange either, as both sites are part of the Salisbury Plain Military Training Area.

Thinking of stopping overnight ? Then the following websites may help you:

Remember that buses and trains operate to Warminster from many of the surrounding towns, so you don’t have to stay in Warminster – please email us if you need further advice.