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Bincombe

Bincombe is a small village, or hamlet, and civil parish in Dorset, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Weymouth.

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The place

Bincombe is a small village, or hamlet, and civil parish in Dorset, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Weymouth. The village is 1 mile (1.6 km) from Upwey railway station and 28 miles (45 km) from Bournemouth Airport. The main road running through the village is Icen Lane. The civil parish, which includes a small part of the settlement of Broadwey to the west, had a population of 514 in the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bincombe

9 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
    Jordan Hill

    Jordan Hill is located near the coast close to the village of Preston, just to the east of Weymouth, Dorset, England.

    2.7 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Redcliff Point

    Redcliff Point is on the south coast of England, to the east of Weymouth in Dorset. It lies just past the eastern end of the sweeping Weymouth Bay on the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape known for its geology.

    4 km · UNESCO World Heritage landscape in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish Church of Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church located in Bincombe, Dorset, England. The church dates back to the late 12th century, with subsequent additions and a restoration in 1865.

    100 m · Grade I listed church in Bincombe, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill

    Jordan Hill Roman Temple is a Romano-Celtic temple and Roman ruin situated on Jordan Hill above Bowleaze Cove in the eastern suburbs of Weymouth in Dorset, England. Original amateur archaeological excavations on the site were carried out by J. Medhurst in 1843-6.

    2.9 km · archaeological site in Overcombe, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lodmoor

    Lodmoor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, RSPB reserve and country park in Dorset, England. The country park features a visitor centre, model railway and pitch and putt golf course.

    3.3 km · park in England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Herringston House

    Herringston House is a Grade II* listed Tudor manor house in Winterborne Herringston in Dorset, England.

    3.5 km · house in Winterborne Herringston, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Ann

    St Ann's Church is a Church of England parish church in Radipole, Weymouth, Dorset, England. The church dates to the 13th century, with later additions, and is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.7 km · church in Dorset, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Laurence

    St Laurence's Church is a Church of England parish church in Upwey, Dorset, England. Much of the existing church dates to the late 15th century, with some earlier fabric and later additions of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    2.6 km · church in Upwey, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Nicholas' Church, Broadwey

    St Nicholas' Church is a Church of England church in Broadwey, Dorset, England. It has Norman origins, but most of the existing church dates from 19th century work.

    2.1 km · church of England church · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Bincombe

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 82 km · Cardiff (CWL), 103 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 165 km
Stations
Upwey railway station, 2 km · Monkton and Came Halt railway station, 3.7 km · Upwey Wishing Well Halt railway station, 1.4 km
  • Bristol → Bincombe
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–9
  • Cardiff → Bincombe
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £11–15
  • London → Bincombe
    188 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bincombe

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDespite its history as a cross-Channel ferry port, these days the furthest you can get on a passenger vessel from Weymouth is Portland; ships from the Channel Islands and France dock at Poole.
  • Get inServices to Poole from the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, as well as Cherbourg in Normandy and Saint-Malo in Brittany by fast or traditional ferry are provided by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
  • Go nextIsle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone.

From Wikivoyage: Weymouth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    81 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    166 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    569 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    575 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    585 km

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