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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

Chideock

Chideock is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, situated close to the English Channel between Bridport and Lyme Regis.

Chideock
Chideock · Elliott Brown
The place

Chideock is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, situated close to the English Channel between Bridport and Lyme Regis. In 2021, the population was 618.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chideock

6 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
    Bridport

    Bridport is a market town and civil parish in Dorset, England, 1+1⁄2 miles inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Its origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre.

    3.8 km · market town in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Golden Cap

    Golden Cap is a hill and cliff situated on the English Channel coast between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England. At 191 metres, it is the highest point within a mile of the south coast of Great Britain from the coastline) and is visible for tens of miles along the coastline.

    1.6 km · hill and cliff situated on the English Channel coast between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Peter's Church

    St Peter's Church is a Church of England church in Eype, Dorset, England. Built in 1864–65, the church now also serves as an arts venue, known as the Eype Centre for the Arts.

    3.1 km · church in Eype, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Thorncombe Beacon

    Thorncombe Beacon is a hill between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England. It lies about 1 kilometre west of Eype Mouth and 2 kilometres east of Seatown.

    2 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Broadoak Church

    St Paul's Church is a Church of England church in Broadoak, Dorset, England. It was designed by Thomas Talbot Bury and built in 1865–66.

    3.8 km · church building in Symondsbury, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Chideock

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 73 km · Cardiff (CWL), 82 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 184 km
  • Bristol → Chideock
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £11–14
  • Cardiff → Chideock
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £15–20
  • London → Chideock
    207 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £21–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chideock

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 Chideock. 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

    107 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    139 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    543 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    560 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    596 km

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

Around it

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