Compton Abbas
Compton Abbas is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England.
Compton Abbas is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. It lies 3 miles south of the town of Shaftesbury. It is sited on greensand strata on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, below the chalk downs of Cranborne Chase. On top of these hills is Compton Abbas Airfield. The A350 road between Wiltshire and the south coast passes through the village. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 216. The name Compton Abbas derives from the Saxon "cumb-ton", meaning 'village in a narrow valley', plus "abbas" which refers to Shaftesbury Abbey. The church, St. Mary's, was built in 1866 to replace the older structure which was more remote from the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Compton Abbas
One place 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.
- 01Church of St Thomas
St Thomas's Church is a Grade II listed building in East Orchard, Dorset. The church dates from 1859.
3.6 km · church in East Orchard, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Compton Abbas
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 59 km · Cardiff (CWL), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 133 km
- Stations
- Compton Abbas Airfield, 2.2 km
- Bristol → Compton Abbas62 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–9
- Cardiff → Compton Abbas90 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £13–17
- London → Compton Abbas156 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £16–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for Compton Abbas
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 Compton Abbas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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