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Broadwindsor

Broadwindsor is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England.

The place

Broadwindsor is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies two miles west of Beaminster. Broadwindsor was formerly a liberty, containing only the parish itself. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,320. In the 2011 census the population of the parish, combined with that of the small parish of Seaborough to the north, was 1,378.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broadwindsor

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
    Pilsdon Pen

    Pilsdon Pen is a 277-metre hill in Dorset in South West England, situated at the north end of the Marshwood Vale, approximately 4.5 miles west of Beaminster. It is Dorset's second highest point and has panoramic views extending for many miles.

    2.9 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    1.2 km · hill in south west Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    800 m · 214m high hill in Broadwindsor, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St John

    St John's Church is a Church of England church in Seaborough, Dorset, England. Much of the church dates to a rebuild of 1882 and it now forms part of the Beaminster Area Team Ministry.

    3.6 km · church building in Seaborough, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.6 km · church building in Mosterton, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Church, Drimpton

    St. Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Drimpton, Dorset, England.

    3.2 km · church in Drimpton, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.3 km · hill in Dorset, 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.

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Getting to Broadwindsor

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Cardiff (CWL), 75 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 179 km
  • Bristol → Broadwindsor
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Broadwindsor
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £14–19
  • London → Broadwindsor
    202 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broadwindsor

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 Broadwindsor. 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

    106 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    137 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    539 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    551 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    587 km

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

Around it

Next door to Broadwindsor

  • Seaboroughvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.6 km
  • Stoke Abbottvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Burstockvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.3 km
  • Pilsdonhamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England3.7 km
  • Drimptonvillage in Dorset, United Kingdom3.2 km