Gatwick to Bath & Stonehenge: Day Trip Travel Guide
Bath and Stonehenge are the two headline sights of the West Country, they sit 34 miles apart, and a great many visitors want to see both. From Gatwick, that ambition runs into a straightforward problem: Bath is around 115 miles west of the airport, and Stonehenge is on a different road entirely. The good news is that combining them is genuinely doable. The less good news is that doing it in a single day from Gatwick requires either a car or a very disciplined schedule — and public transport, on this particular route, doesn't do you many favours. Here's how the journey actually works. The Geography Understanding the layout makes everything else easier: Gatwick to Bath: roughly 115 miles, about 2 hours 15 minutes by road Gatwick to Stonehenge: roughly 95 miles, about 1 hour 45 minutes by road Stonehenge to Bath: 34 miles, about 50 minutes by road Stonehenge sits between the two. That's the key detail: it isn't a detour from a Gatwick–Bath journey so ...