Charmouth

Worth seeing in and around Charmouth

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
   Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

   Dinosaurland Fossil Museum is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England.

   2.5 km · Fossil museum in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Church of St Candida and Holy Cross, Whitchurch Canonicorum

   The Church of St Candida and Holy Cross is an Anglican church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England. A Saxon church stood on the site but nothing remains of that structure.

   3.9 km · Grade I listed church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Mary Anning

   The Statue of Mary Anning is a bronze sculpture of the paleontologist Mary Anning in Lyme Regis.

   2.3 km · statue in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Lyme Regis Museum

   Lyme Regis Philpot Museum is situated in the town of Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. It is a registered charity under English law.

   2.5 km · museum in Dorset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Parish Church (St Mary)

   St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England. It was designed by John Loughborough Pearson and built in 1857–58.

   1.1 km · church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   The Guildhall

   Lyme Regis Guildhall is a municipal building in Bridge Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. The building, which serves as the meeting place of Lyme Regis Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

   2.5 km · building in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Belmont, Lyme Regis

   Belmont is a Grade II* listed country house near Lyme Regis, South West England. In the early nineteenth century it was owned by the businesswoman Eleanor Coade, famed for supplying the artificial stone known as Coade stone.

   3 km · country house in England · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

   The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England. The centre operates as an independent registered charity within the larger framework of the UNESCO Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, known as the "Jurassic Coast".

   400 m · heritage centre in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Golden Cap

   Golden Cap Estate, Morcombelake, Bridport, Dorset (See website for directions), goldencap@nationaltrust.org.uk.

2. 02
   Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

   Small free museum containing many impressive fossil specimens found locally, along with educational videos, exhibits and events relating to local geology and fossil-hunting.

From Wikivoyage: Charmouth, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Fossil hunting. in front of the cliffs by the beach. There are lots of fossilised ammonites in the sediment layers in the cliffs, and as weathering occurs, the cliffs are eroded and the fossils are left on the beach. The best time to go hunting is in Spring, when the winter's storms have exposed many fossils.

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Getting to Charmouth

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Bristol (BRS), 73 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 189 km

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  82 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £10–14
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  85 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £15–20
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  212 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £22–29
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