--- title: "Askerswell – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Askerswell, United Kingdom: Askerswell is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. Nearby: Eggardon Hill. Every way…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/askerswell" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/askerswell.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askerswell), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggardon_Hill) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-askerswell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Askerswell) - Cardiff → Askerswell 91 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-askerswell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Askerswell) - London → Askerswell 197 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-askerswell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Askerswell) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Askerswell) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 96 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 149 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 552 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 563 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 595 km If you know how people move in Askerswell – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Caskerswell&title=Askerswell&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Faskerswell), and the note gets an entry. 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