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Bradford Abbas

Bradford Abbas is a village and civil parish in north-west Dorset, England, on the border with Somerset.

Bradford Abbas
Bradford Abbas · Geof Sheppard
The place

Bradford Abbas is a village and civil parish in north-west Dorset, England, on the border with Somerset. The village is 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Yeovil and 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Sherborne. The parish includes the small settlement of Saxon Maybank to the north, and had a population of 975 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bradford Abbas

7 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 John the Baptist, Yeovil

    The Church of St John the Baptist in Yeovil, Somerset, is a Church of England parish church. The church was built between 1380 and 1405, but was renovated in the 1850s.

    3.5 km · church in Yeovil, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Old Police Station

    The Town House is a municipal building in Union Street in Yeovil, Somerset, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Yeovil Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.3 km · town hall in Yeovil, South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Yeovil Railway Centre

    The Yeovil Railway Centre is a small railway museum at Yeovil Junction on the L&SWR West of England Main Line between Salisbury and Exeter in the U.K. It was created in 1993, in response to British Rail's decision to remove the turntable from Yeovil Junction. Approximately 1⁄4 mile of track along the Clifton Maybank spur is used for demonstration trains.

    1.8 km · railway museum in Stoford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of Saint Mary Magdalene

    The Anglican Church of St Mary Magdalene in Barwick, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ninesprings

    Ninesprings is a country park situated in the south east of Yeovil, Somerset, the United Kingdom. It is the largest country park in South Somerset, spanning over 20 acres.

    3.2 km · country park near Yeovil, Somerset, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parish Church of St Michael

    St Michael's Church is a Church of England church in Over Compton, Dorset, England. The church dates to the 15th-century, with later additions and restorations.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed church in Over Compton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Newton Surmaville

    Newton Surmaville is a 15,129-square-foot stately home with gardens and a park south of Yeovil, Somerset in the district of South Somerset, in England. It lies just outside the town in the parish of Barwick.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed country house in Somerset, 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.

Go there

Getting to Bradford Abbas

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Cardiff (CWL), 74 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 160 km
Stations
Yeovil Junction railway station, 1.8 km · Yetminster railway station, 3.7 km · Thornford railway station, 2 km · Yeovil Pen Mill railway station, 2.6 km · Yeovil Town railway station, 2.9 km
  • Bristol → Bradford Abbas
    59 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £7–10
  • Cardiff → Bradford Abbas
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £14–18
  • London → Bradford Abbas
    183 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bradford Abbas

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 Bradford Abbas. 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

    94 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    148 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    544 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    546 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    579 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bradford Abbas

Bradford Abbas is 59 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Yetminstervillage in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km
  • Beer Hackettvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.9 km
  • Ryme Intrinsecavillage and civil parish in Dorset, England3.7 km
  • Thornfordvillage and civil parish in Dorset. United Kingdom2.2 km
  • Over Comptonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.3 km