--- title: "Charmouth – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Charmouth, United Kingdom: Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England. Nearby: Dinosaurland Fossil Museum, Church of St Candida and…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/charmouth" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/charmouth.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Golden_Cap_from_Charmouth_Beach.jpg/1920px-Golden_Cap_from_Charmouth_Beach.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Charmouth Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England. ![Charmouth](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Golden_Cap_from_Charmouth_Beach.jpg/1920px-Golden_Cap_from_Charmouth_Beach.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Charmouth · Partonez The place Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England. The village is situated on the mouth of the River Char, around 1.5 miles (2 km) north-east of Lyme Regis. Dorset County Council estimated that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,310. In the 2011 census the population of the parish, combined with the small parish of Catherston Leweston to the north, was 1,352. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmouth), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurland_Fossil_Museum) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Candida_and_Holy_Cross) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Mary_Anning) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Regis_Museum) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Catherston_Leweston) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Regis_Guildhall) 7. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont,_Lyme_Regis) 8. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmouth_Heritage_Coast_Centre) 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. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see 1. Golden Cap Golden Cap Estate, Morcombelake, Bridport, Dorset (See website for directions), goldencap@nationaltrust.org.uk. 2. 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Charmouth), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Do ## 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. From [Wikivoyage: Charmouth](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Charmouth), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Charmouth **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 73 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 189 km\ - Bristol → Charmouth 82 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-charmouth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Charmouth) - Cardiff → Charmouth 85 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-charmouth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Charmouth) - London → Charmouth 212 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-charmouth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Charmouth) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Charmouth) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Charmouth 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 Charmouth. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 113 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 133 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 538 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 558 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 594 km If you know how people move in Charmouth – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ccharmouth&title=Charmouth&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fcharmouth), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Charmouth - [Lyme Regis](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lyme-regis) town and civil parish in Dorset, England 2.6 km - [Whitchurch Canonicorum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/whitchurch-canonicorum) village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England 4 km - [Uplyme](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/uplyme) village in Devon, England, United Kingdom 3.4 km - [Wootton Fitzpaine](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wootton-fitzpaine) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.5 km - [Stanton St Gabriel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stanton-st-gabriel) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.1 km - [Catherston Leweston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/catherston-leweston) village and civil parish in West Dorset, Dorset, England 1.2 km [The place page for Charmouth](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/charmouth) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/charmouth, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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