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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

Askerswell

Askerswell is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England.

The place

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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What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Eggardon 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 → Askerswell
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £10–13
  • Cardiff → Askerswell
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £16–21
  • London → Askerswell
    197 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    96 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    149 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    552 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    563 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    595 km

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Around it

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