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Bagber

Bagber is a hamlet in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated about 2 miles (3.2 km) west and northwest of Sturminster Newton in the Dorset unitary authority.

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The place

Bagber is a hamlet in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated about 2 miles (3.2 km) west and northwest of Sturminster Newton in the Dorset unitary authority. It consists of Bagber, Lower Bagber and Bagber Common, which all lie within Sturminster Newton civil parish. Chapel Row consists of around ten houses in total, six of which are within 300 metres (980 ft) of the main A357. These six date back to the 19th century; the chapel is no. 6.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bagber

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
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England Parish Church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset. The present church dates from a rebuild in 1486 by the abbots of Glastonbury.

    3.4 km · historic church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sturminster Newton Castle

    Sturminster Newton Castle is a site consisting of the remains of a medieval manor house within an Iron Age hillfort, near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England. The ruins are privately owned.

    3.1 km · fortified manor house, formerly a hillfort, in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    King's Stag Memorial Chapel

    King's Stag Memorial Chapel is a Church of England chapel in King's Stag, Dorset, England.

    3.9 km · church in King's Stag, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stock Gaylard House

    Stock Gaylard House is a country house near Lydlinch, and about 4 miles west of Sturminster Newton, in Dorset, England. It is Grade II* listed.

    3.3 km · country house in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Bagber

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Cardiff (CWL), 87 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 145 km
Stations
Sturminster Newton railway station, 3.4 km
  • Bristol → Bagber
    62 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £7–10
  • Cardiff → Bagber
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £14–19
  • London → Bagber
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bagber

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.

From Wikivoyage: Dorset, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    78 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    165 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    550 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    561 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    565 km

If you know how people move in Bagber – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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