Alweston

Worth seeing in and around Alweston

4 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.

1. 01
   Sherborne Abbey

   Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset.

   4 km · church building in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Sherborne Castle

   Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion located southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton. Originally built by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, and extended in the 1620s, it stands in a 1,200-acre park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre Digby estate.

   3.2 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Sherborne, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul

   St Peter and St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in Caundle Marsh, Dorset, England. It was designed by Robert Howard Shout and built in 1856–57.

   1.4 km · church building in Caundle Marsh, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Sherborne Museum

   Sherborne Museum is an independent, community-run museum located in the centre of Sherborne, Dorset. It is housed in the Abbey Gatehouse, a Grade II listed building situated on Church Lane, a pedestrianised thoroughfare connecting the town's market place with Sherborne Abbey.

   3.9 km · museum in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Alweston

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 54 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 154 km

Stations

Sherborne railway station, 3.5 km

• Bristol → Alweston

  59 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–10
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• Cardiff → Alweston

  79 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
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• London → Alweston

  176 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Alweston

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 Alweston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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