Almer
Almer is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sturminster Marshall, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England.
Almer is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sturminster Marshall, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Almer is located on the A31 road near Winterborne Zelston, Huish Manor, Sturminster Marshall and opposite the Drax estate. The main features of the village are Almer Manor, Almer Parish church and the old school house. The school was co-educational; it opened in 1925 and closed in 1964. The Almer School Honours tablet is now kept in Winterborne Zelston village hall. The seven residential properties in Almer are owned and let by the Charborough (Drax) Estate. In 1931 the parish had a population of 108. On 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished and merged with Sturminster Marshall.
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Worth seeing in and around Almer
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Church of St Mary
Church of Mary is a Grade I listed church in Almer, Dorset, England. It became a listed building on 18 March 1955.
1.1 km · Grade I listed church in Almer, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Charborough House
Charborough House, also known as Charborough Park, is a Grade I listed building, the manor house of the ancient manor of Charborough. The house is between the villages of Sturminster Marshall and Bere Regis in Dorset, England.
900 m · Grade I listed English country house in Purbeck, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03St Andrew's Church, Winterborne Tomson
St Andrew's Church in Winterborne Tomson, Dorset, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.2 km · church in Winterborne Tomson, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Mary the Virgin, Lytchett Matravers
St Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of Lytchett Matravers in Dorset. Its parish is part of the Diocese of Salisbury.
2.6 km · church in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Anderson Manor
Anderson Manor is a Grade I listed manor house in the Dorset village of Anderson in England. It was built in 1622 for John Tregonwell.
3.6 km · Grade I listed manor house in Anderson, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Almer
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 79 km · Cardiff (CWL), 110 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 139 km
- Stations
- Bailey Gate railway station, 3.7 km
- Bristol → Almer81 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £9–12
- London → Almer13 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £1.5–2
- Cardiff → Almer106 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Almer
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Almer. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDaily ferry services from Poole Harbour run to Cherbourg in France as well as Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
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Next door to Almer
- Sturminster Marshallvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km
- Mordenvillage and civil parish in south Dorset, England in the United Kingdom3 km
- Winterborne Zelstonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK1.9 km
- Andersonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, UK3.7 km
- Winterborne Tomsonvillage in Dorset, UK3.2 km
- Combe Almerhamlet in Dorset, England, UK3.2 km