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Bothenhampton

Bothenhampton is a village in the civil parish of Bridport, in southwest Dorset, England, just outside the town of Bridport.

The place

Bothenhampton is a village in the civil parish of Bridport, in southwest Dorset, England, just outside the town of Bridport. It is separated from the town only by the River Asker and the A35 Bridport by-pass. In the 2011 census the civil parish—which includes the settlement of Walditch—had a population of 2,131.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bothenhampton

10 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
    Bridport

    Bridport is a market town and civil parish in Dorset, England, 1+1⁄2 miles inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Its origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre.

    1.5 km · market town in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John's Church, West Bay

    St John's Church is a Church of England church in West Bay, Dorset, England. It was built in 1935–39 to the designs of William Henry Randoll Blacking and has been a Grade II listed building since 1975.

    1.6 km · church building in Bridport, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    900 m · church in Bridport, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Trinity Old Church, Bothenhampton

    Holy Trinity Old Church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England was built in the 13th or 14th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    500 m · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Holy Trinity Church, Bothenhampton

    Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church at Bothenhampton, near Bridport in Dorset, England. It was designed and built by the English arts and crafts architect Edward Schroeder Prior in 1887–89.

    100 m · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Peter's Church

    St Peter's Church is a Church of England church in Eype, Dorset, England. Built in 1864–65, the church now also serves as an arts venue, known as the Eype Centre for the Arts.

    2 km · church in Eype, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Thorncombe Beacon

    Thorncombe Beacon is a hill between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England. It lies about 1 kilometre west of Eype Mouth and 2 kilometres east of Seatown.

    3.6 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Bridport Museum

    Bridport Museum is a museum in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is housed within an early 16th-century building known as the Castle, located on South Street.

    1 km · museum in Bridport, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    9, East Street

    The George Inn is a historic building in the town of Bridport, Dorset, England.

    1.2 km · building in West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Saviour's Church, Dottery

    St Saviour's Church is a Church of England church in Dottery, Dorset, England. Erected in 1881–82, the corrugated iron church is the only one of its type in Dorset used for regular worship.

    3.5 km · church in Dorset, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bothenhampton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 73 km · Cardiff (CWL), 85 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 180 km
Stations
Bridport West Bay railway station, 1.6 km · Bridport railway station, 1.5 km · Bridport East Street railway station, 900 m
  • Bristol → Bothenhampton
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–13
  • Cardiff → Bothenhampton
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £16–21
  • London → Bothenhampton
    203 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bothenhampton

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 Bothenhampton. 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

    102 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    144 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    547 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    562 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    598 km

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Around it

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