Bus Tour
 

I am staying at Tortworth near Wotten Under Edge. Drove here today from Cirencester via Bath. WOW...I would love to leave the car and take a bus Saturday to Cardiff and maybe a bus to Stonehenge.

How do I do that and from where?

Train would probably better.

You might want to do these trips on separate days as Cardiff is one direction and Salisbury the other. You can take a train to either place and I imagine there are bus tours to Stonehenge from Salisbury. If you did a circular trip, first to Cardiff then Salisbury by train, overnight there and visit Stonehenge the following morning and back to your base by train you could do it in 2 days. I think it would be too much for 1 day.

Search for trains here: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ You're kind of between stations, Yate to the south, Cam & Dursley north. I once had to pay someone to take me to a station from Wotten, not a convenient location for public transport although there may certainly be local buses I'm not aware of. But you have your car for the trip to the station if there's parking. You could go and have a look beforehand.

The universal answer to questions like yours is www.transportdirect.info. In your case, it's worth looking at both Wotton and Yate (that's Yate, Gloucestershire) as starting points

It's about 3 hours each way to Stonehenge by bus or train. Given the infrequency of buses between Salisbury station and Stonehenge, it's simply not possible to visit Cardiff in the same day. It's just about possible by car: it's 90 mins by car to Stonehenge and from Cardiff, and 2 hrs between Stonehenge and Cardiff

It's usually essential on sites like that to spell the place you're starting from properly.

PS: Do note that most rural railway stations charge for parking. Since everyone knows this, there's usually no signage warning the unwary, and fines for not paying can be significant.

No idea whether this is true at Yate, but worth allowing a few extra minutes to check and then if necessary find the meters or work out how the mobile phone payment system works

Actually, it isn't essential to know how to spell the place names properly - National Rail, National Express and even Transport Direct fill in the place name if you get the first couple of letters right.

"<i>Actually, it isn't essential to know how to spell the place names properly - National Rail, National Express and even Transport Direct fill in the place name if you get the first couple of letters right.</i>"

Actually it is. Since there are often several similarly spelled places, the site will just as likely 'fill in' the wrong one. . .

Sigh.

Indeed - for example when you type in "stansted" to the AA's travel planner it invariably defaults to Stansted near Sevenoaks

On the AA site Stansted, Sevenoaks is the first of 17 matches, not the default. And in this case you must know how to spell it as it didn't fill in after, say stan.. Not a good example of what I was referring to and, one would hope, if for instance the airport is what was wanted then a place in Kent would not do. And if one did not know then it's a bigger problem than spelling and websites.

I think our time might be better spent actually giving information rather than attacks precipitated by an e instead of an o in a place where he/she isn't staying or going and not leaving or arriving. But the flack will come.

Make that flak, also not in Kent.

"<i>sigh</i>"

"<i>I think our time might be better spent actually giving information rather than attacks </i>"

I dare say I have given the OP a LOT of advice/info/suggestions. He has more than 40 threads about this trip and I and others have spent many (MANY) hours trying to help him.

My (and flanner's and alan's) point was simply that one can't just spell places in the UK any old way -- or it may come back to bite you . . .