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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.

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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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chideock), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridport)
2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Cap)
3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Candida_and_Holy_Cross)
4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Eype)
5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorncombe_Beacon)
6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Broadoak)

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.

Go there

## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-chideock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Chideock)
- Cardiff → Chideock 87 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-chideock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Chideock)
- London → Chideock 207 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £21–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-chideock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Chideock)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Chideock)

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 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 107 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 139 km
3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 543 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 560 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 596 km

If you know how people move in Chideock – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cchideock&title=Chideock&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fchideock), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Chideock

- [Allington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/allington) village in Bridport, Dorset, England 3.7 km
- [Whitchurch Canonicorum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/whitchurch-canonicorum) village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England 2.8 km
- [Stanton St Gabriel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stanton-st-gabriel) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.7 km
- [Symondsbury](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/symondsbury) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.3 km
- [Eype](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eype) village in Dorset, England, UK 3 km
- [Eype Mouth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eype-mouth) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.2 km

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