REME Museum, Lyneham

Name: REME Museum
Address: Calne Rd, Lyneham, SN15 4XX, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1249 894869

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The REME Museum is within the MoD Lyneham site, in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles southwest of Swindon. The museum holds collections of technological and historical artifacts associated with the work of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, the corps of the British Army responsible for the maintenance, servicing and inspection of electrical and mechanical equipment. ()

Established: 1956 (68 years ago)Coordinates: 51°30'17"N, 1°58'12"W

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Calne RdLyneham SN15 4XX United Kingdom

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+44 1249 894869

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REME Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bowood House, Calne Town Hall, Avebury Manor, St Mary's Church.

6 miSW
Georgian house with family attractions
Bowood House, Chippenham
154 min walk • Bowood is a Grade I listed Georgian country house with interiors by Robert Adam, in extensive grounds which include a garden designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown.
4.9 miS
City hall
Calne Town Hall, Calne
124 min walk • Calne Town Hall is a municipal building in The Strand, Calne, Wiltshire, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Calne Town Council, is a grade II listed building.
7.1 miSE
Historical place, Garden, Museum
Avebury Manor, Avebury
181 min walk • Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden.
4.9 miS
Church
St Mary's Church, Calne
124 min walk • St Mary's Church is the main Anglican church in the town of Calne, Wiltshire, England. The church is large and cruciform, with a tall north tower; it stands in a triangular churchyard at the heart of the town. Begun in the 12th century, it is described by Pevsner as "the proud church of a prosperous clothiers' town".
6.3 miNE
Park, Vernacular architecture
Lydiard Park, Swindon
160 min walk • Lydiard Park is a 260-acre country park at Lydiard Tregoze, which was its formal name, about 3 miles west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, England, near Junction 16 of the M4 motorway.
5.9 miSE
Archaeological site, View point, Historical place
Windmill Hill, Avebury
152 min walk • Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, part of the Avebury World Heritage Site, about 1 mile northwest of Avebury. Enclosing an area of 21 acres, it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Britain.
4.9 miW
Monuments and statues
Maud Heath's Causeway
126 min walk • Maud Heath's Causeway is a pathway dating from the 15th century in rural Wiltshire, England. On both sides of its crossing of the River Avon, just west of Kellaways, the path rises above the floodplain on sixty-four brick arches alongside an undistinguished country road between Bremhill and Langley Burrell.
5.6 miSE
Church
St Nicholas's Church, Avebury
144 min walk • St Nicholas's Church in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England dates from the early 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant in 1972, and was vested in the Trust the next year.
6.4 miNE
Museum
Lydiard House, Swindon
164 min walk • Lydiard Park is a 260-acre country park at Lydiard Tregoze, which was its formal name, about 3 miles west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, England, near Junction 16 of the M4 motorway.
3.8 miNE
Historical place, Museum, History museum
Wootton Bassett Museum, Royal Wootton Bassett
97 min walk • Wootton Bassett Museum is a local museum in the market town of Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England. It is located in the town hall which is a Grade II listed building.
6.1 miNE
Forts and castles
Ringsbury Camp
157 min walk • Ringsbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort, thought to date from approximately the year 50BC, in the civil parish of Purton in Wiltshire, England. The site is a scheduled monument.