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Burstock

Burstock is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Crewkerne.

The place

Burstock is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Crewkerne. In the 2011 census the parish had 59 dwellings, 49 households and a population of 120.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Burstock

8 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 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.

    2.2 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.

    1.8 km · 214m high hill in Broadwindsor, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Payne's Down

    Payne's Down is a prominent hill, 211 metres high, some 10 kilometres east-northeast of Axminster and 1 kilometre northwest of Birdsmoorgate, in the county of Dorset in southern England. Its prominence of 62 metres means it is listed as one of the Tumps.

    4 km · 211m high hill in Thorncombe, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.1 km · church building in Seaborough, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Clapton Mill

    Clapton Mill is a former watermill located in the hamlet of Clapton, West Crewkerne, Somerset, England. The existing mill dates back to the 18th century, but was extensively rebuilt in 1864.

    3.5 km · aqueduct in West Crewkerne, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Mary's Church, Drimpton

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

    2.1 km · church in Drimpton, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    2.9 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Burstock

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Cardiff (CWL), 73 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 180 km
  • Bristol → Burstock
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Burstock
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £14–19
  • London → Burstock
    203 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · £21–28
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Burstock

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 Burstock. 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

    108 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    135 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    537 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

    586 km

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

Around it

Next door to Burstock

  • Seaboroughvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.1 km
  • Broadwindsorvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.8 km
  • Bettiscombevillage in Dorset, England, UK3.6 km
  • Wayfordvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Pilsdonhamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England3.5 km
  • Drimptonvillage in Dorset, United Kingdom2.1 km