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Buckhorn Weston

Buckhorn Weston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated in the Blackmore Vale about 3 miles west of the town of Gillingham.

The place

Buckhorn Weston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated in the Blackmore Vale about 3 miles west of the town of Gillingham. It lies on the western edge of the former royal hunting ground of Gillingham Forest. The underlying geology is Oxford clay and Corallian limestone. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 356.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Buckhorn Weston

3 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 George Langham

    St George's Church is a Church of England church in Langham, Gillingham, Dorset, England. It was designed by Charles Ponting and built in 1921.

    3.8 km · church building in Gillingham, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Lawrence

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

    3.2 km · church in Cucklington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Shanks House

    Shanks House in Cucklington, Somerset, England is a Grade I listed building. The first written records of the house date from the middle of the 16th century.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed building in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Buckhorn Weston

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 48 km · Cardiff (CWL), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 141 km
  • Bristol → Buckhorn Weston
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £6–8
  • Cardiff → Buckhorn Weston
    77 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £13–17
  • London → Buckhorn Weston
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Buckhorn Weston

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 Buckhorn Weston. 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

    82 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    163 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    539 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    556 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    559 km

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Around it

Next door to Buckhorn Weston

Buckhorn Weston is 51 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.