Askerswell
Askerswell is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England.
Askerswell is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It is sited on the small River Asker. It lies 11 miles (18 km) west of the county town Dorchester. The parish has an area of 1,724 acres and in the northeast includes the western slopes of Eggardon Hill, including part of the Iron Age hill fort close to its summit. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 154.
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Worth seeing in and around Askerswell
One place 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.
- 01Eggardon Hill
Eggardon Hill is a prehistoric hillfort on a hill in Dorset, England. It is located on chalk uplands approximately four miles to the east of the town of Bridport.
2.3 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Askerswell
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 72 km · Cardiff (CWL), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 175 km
- Stations
- Powerstock railway station, 2.7 km
- Bristol → Askerswell81 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £10–13
- Cardiff → Askerswell91 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £16–21
- London → Askerswell197 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for Askerswell
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 Askerswell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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