Broadmayne
Broadmayne is a village in the English county of Dorset.
Broadmayne is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies two miles south-east of the county town Dorchester. The A352 main road between Dorchester and Wareham passes through the village. In the 2001 Census the population of the village was 1,864, reducing to 1,204 at the 2011 Census. There is an electoral ward of the same name whose population at the above census was 1,870. Village facilities and services include a post office, a clinic and a public house. There are two churches in the village, both of which were redesigned by Thomas Hardy, who was an architect before he became a novelist. The parish church of St Martin dates from the 13th century and has a notable south tower.
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Worth seeing in and around Broadmayne
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.
- 01Whitcombe Church
Whitcombe Church in Whitcombe, Dorset, England was built in the 12th 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.
2.3 km · church in Whitcombe, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Came House
Came House is a privately owned country house next to the village of Winterborne Came, in Dorset, England. Built in the mid-18th century, it is a Grade I listed building.
3.1 km · Grade I listed house in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Parish Church of St Osmund
St Osmund's Church is a Church of England parish church in Osmington, Dorset, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.6 km · church in Osmington, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Peter's Church, Winterborne Came
St Peter's Church in Winterborne Came, Dorset, England was built in the 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.
3.2 km · church in Winterborne Came, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Broadmayne
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 82 km · Cardiff (CWL), 104 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 161 km
- Bristol → Broadmayne88 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £11–14
- Cardiff → Broadmayne105 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £18–24
- London → Broadmayne184 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Broadmayne
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 Broadmayne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Broadmayne
- Osmingtonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.6 km
- Winterborne Camevillage and civil parish in Dorset, UK3.1 km
- West Knightonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK1.2 km
- Warmwellvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.5 km
- West Staffordvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.2 km
- Whitcombevillage in Dorset, England, UK2.1 km