The Rifles Museum
The Rifles Museum is a regimental museum in Winchester. Add Winchester Cathedral, 600 m away, to a visit; it leads 35 places within 15 km.
Museum in Winchester
Inside Winchester
The Rifles Museum is inside Winchester’s built-up area, with 18 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
The best months to visit
Afternoons in Winchester reach 18–23°C from May to September.
The Rifles Museum
Regimental museum in Winchester, United Kingdom.
In Winchester, inside the town’s built-up area.
- Type
- Museum
- Town
- in Winchester
- Official site
- riflemansmuseum.co.uk
Getting to The Rifles Museum
The Rifles Museum is in orange, with the places near it numbered as below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Winchester’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Which towns are near The Rifles Museum
The most populous of the 7 is Winchester, at 48,486. Start with its own town; the others follow by distance.
Winchester
Kings Worthy
Littleton
Shawford
Compare the 7 towns
| Town | Where The Rifles Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winchester | It’s in town | 48,486 | 24 |
| Kings Worthy | 2.4 km north of it | 4,631 | 20 |
| Littleton | 2.7 km northwest of it | 1,506 | 18 |
| Shawford | 3.1 km south of it | 416 | 17 |
| Twyford | 3.6 km south of it | 1,482 | 19 |
| Sparsholt | 4.2 km northwest of it | 434 | 16 |
| Compton | 4.2 km south of it | 1,307 | 20 |
Combine it with these
There are 35 within 15 km, 4 museums, 2 castles and a cathedral among them.
CathedralWinchester Cathedral600 m away2
CastleWinchester Castle100 m away3
Castle · English HeritageWolvesey Castle900 m away4ChurchChurchOld Minster500 m away5
MuseumRoyal Green Jackets Museum100 m away6
MuseumGurkha Museum100 m away7
MuseumMuseum of the Adjutant General's Corps100 m away8
MuseumSerle's House200 m awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
The Rifles Museum: what to know
Where is The Rifles Museum?
The Rifles Museum is in Winchester, Hampshire, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is The Rifles Museum?
Regimental museum in Winchester, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit The Rifles Museum?
May to September are the warmest months in Winchester, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near The Rifles Museum?
Within 15 km: Winchester Cathedral (600 m), Winchester Castle (100 m), Wolvesey Castle (900 m) and Old Minster (500 m).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- Winchester Cathedral: http://www.wyrdlight.com Author: Antony McCallum, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Winchester Castle: Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wolvesey Castle: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Royal Green Jackets Museum: Major J Pearson - museum photographer., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gurkha Museum: Anwpwiki, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Museum of the Adjutant General's Corps: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Serle's House: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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