Burton Bradstock
Burton Bradstock is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) southeast of Bridport and 1⁄2 mile (0.8 km) inland from the English Channel at Chesil Beach.
Burton Bradstock is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) southeast of Bridport and 1⁄2 mile (0.8 km) inland from the English Channel at Chesil Beach. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 948. The village lies in the Bride Valley, close to the mouth of the small River Bride. It comprises 16th- and 17th-century thatched cottages, a parish church, two pubs, a primary school, shop, post office stores, beach café, hotel, garage, village hall, reading room a library. The parish has a National Coastwatch Institution station, Lyme Bay Station.
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Worth seeing in and around Burton Bradstock
5 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.
- 01Parish Church of St Mary
St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
3.7 km · church in Bridport, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Holy Trinity Old Church, Bothenhampton
Holy Trinity Old Church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England was built in the 13th or 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.
2.5 km · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St John's Church, West Bay
St John's Church is a Church of England church in West Bay, Dorset, England. It was built in 1935–39 to the designs of William Henry Randoll Blacking and has been a Grade II listed building since 1975.
2.6 km · church building in Bridport, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Bridport Museum
Bridport Museum is a museum in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is housed within an early 16th-century building known as the Castle, located on South Street.
3.9 km · museum in Bridport, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Holy Trinity Church, Bothenhampton
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church at Bothenhampton, near Bridport in Dorset, England. It was designed and built by the English arts and crafts architect Edward Schroeder Prior in 1887–89.
2.9 km · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
West Bay Wallow - take a plunge into the harbour on Boxing Day. Filming locations of the television drama series Harbour Lights and Broadchurch. Burton Bradstock. Beach and cliffs West Bay Discovery Centre - a visitors centre with a treasure trove of stories, activities and information
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Things to do
Sunbathe Crabbing off the pier Angling, off the pier or beach Walk along the South West Coast Path Boat trip Children's playground - near the Spar shop on West Bay Road. RNLI Raft Race - a race down the River Brit on home-made rafts, in fancy-dress. Annual in July. Torchlight Procession - closing Bridport Carnival week. From Bridport to West Bay. Annual in August. Melplash Agricultural Show.
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Where to eat
Fish and chips - from one of the many local kiosks Riverside Restaurant. Sitting in a loop of the River Brit, reached via a footbridge beside The George. Watch House Cafe. Behind the Methodist Chapel, on East Beach.
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Getting to Burton Bradstock
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 75 km · Cardiff (CWL), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 180 km
- Stations
- Bridport West Bay railway station, 2.4 km · Bridport East Street railway station, 3.6 km
- Bristol → Burton Bradstock84 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £10–13
- Cardiff → Burton Bradstock92 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £16–21
- London → Burton Bradstock203 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £21–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Burton Bradstock
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 Burton Bradstock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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