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Chilfrome

Chilfrome is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England.

Chilfrome
Chilfrome · Wolfgang Moroder (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The place

Chilfrome is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies in the Dorset unitary authority administrative area, approximately 9 miles (14 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It is situated between the villages of Cattistock and Maiden Newton in the upper reaches of the Frome Valley in the Dorset Downs. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 40.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chilfrome

2 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
    Church of St Francis

    St Francis' Church is a Church of England church in Frome Vauchurch, Dorset, England. It has 12th-century origins, with a major rebuild in the 17th-century and restoration work in the 19th century.

    2 km · church in Frome Vauchurch, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wraxall Manor

    Wraxall Manor is a grade II* listed manor house in Wraxall, Dorset, England. The house was built in about 1630, probably for William Lawrence.

    3.1 km · house in Wraxall, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Chilfrome

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 67 km · Cardiff (CWL), 86 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 167 km
Stations
Maiden Newton railway station, 1.5 km
  • Bristol → Chilfrome
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Chilfrome
    88 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £16–22
  • London → Chilfrome
    189 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chilfrome

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 Chilfrome. 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

    91 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    152 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    554 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    559 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    586 km

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