--- title: "Beaminster – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Beaminster, United Kingdom: Beaminster is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the county town…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beaminster" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beaminster.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Church_of_St_Peter_-_High_Street_West%2C_Dorchester.jpg/1920px-Church_of_St_Peter_-_High_Street_West%2C_Dorchester.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Beaminster Beaminster is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. ![Beaminster](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Church_of_St_Peter_-_High_Street_West%2C_Dorchester.jpg/1920px-Church_of_St_Peter_-_High_Street_West%2C_Dorchester.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Beaminster · Elliott Brown The place Beaminster is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the source of the small River Brit. The population of Beaminster parish was recorded as 3,177 in the 2021 census. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaminster), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Beaminster 8 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. All Saints' Church, Mapperton All Saints' Church is a private church, formerly belonging to the Church of England, in Mapperton, Dorset, England. The church is believed to have 12th century origins, with later additions and rebuilds. 2.8 km · private church in Mapperton, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Mapperton) 2. Lewesdon Hill Lewesdon Hill is a hill near Broadwindsor in west Dorset, England. With a maximum elevation of 279 m, it is the highest point in Dorset. 4.4 km · hill in south west Dorset, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewesdon_Hill) 3. Conegar Hill Conegar Hill is a prominent rise, 214 metres high, just north of the village of Broadwindsor in the Yeovil Scarplands, in the county of Dorset in southern England. It has a prominence of 51 metres which classifies it as one of the Tumps. 4.5 km · 214m high hill in Broadwindsor, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conegar_Hill) 4. Parnham House Parnham House is a sixteenth-century Grade I listed house located in Parnham Park about 1 mile from Beaminster in Dorset, England. Historic England describes the house as "exceptionally important". 1.1 km · Grade I listed house in West Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parnham_House) 5. Waddon Hill Waddon Hill is a hill and the site of a short-lived Roman fort near Beaminster, in the English county of Dorset. The name Waddon is from the Old English, meaning wheat hill. 3.3 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waddon_Hill) 6. Holy Trinity Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England church in Salway Ash, Dorset, England. The church was designed by George Crickmay and built in 1887–89. 4.5 km · church in Salway Ash, Dorset · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Salway_Ash) 7. Christ Church, Melplash Christ Church is a Church of England church in Melplash, Dorset, England. It was built in 1845–46 to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey and has been a Grade II\* listed building since 1984. 3.8 km · church in Melplash, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church,_Melplash) 8. Church of St Mary St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Mosterton, Dorset, England. The church was designed by Edmund Pearce and built in 1832–33 to replace an earlier building. 4.8 km · church building in Mosterton, West Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Mosterton) 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 Beaminster **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 64 km · Cardiff (CWL), 78 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 175 km\ - Bristol → Beaminster 73 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-beaminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Beaminster) - Cardiff → Beaminster 81 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-beaminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Beaminster) - London → Beaminster 198 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-beaminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Beaminster) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Beaminster) 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 Beaminster 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 Beaminster. 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 102 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 141 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 543 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 554 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 589 km If you know how people move in Beaminster – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cbeaminster&title=Beaminster&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fbeaminster), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Beaminster - [Corscombe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/corscombe) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 5.4 km - [Mosterton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mosterton) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 5 km - [Broadwindsor](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/broadwindsor) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 4.4 km - [Netherbury](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/netherbury) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 2.1 km - [Hooke](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hooke) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 5.6 km - [Burstock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burstock) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 5.5 km [The place page for Beaminster](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/beaminster) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beaminster, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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