Compton Valence
Compton Valence is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.
Compton Valence is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited at the head of a narrow valley, formed by a small tributary of the River Frome, and is surrounded by the hills of the Dorset Downs, which has led to it having been described as "a pocket of habitation in the downs." Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the parish was 50.
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Worth seeing in and around Compton Valence
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.
- 01Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows
Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery is an archaeological site, a group of Bronze Age round barrows, near the A35 road about 2 miles west of Winterbourne Abbas, in Dorset, England. It is an English Heritage site.
2.6 km · archaeological site in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Compton Valence
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 72 km · Cardiff (CWL), 91 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 169 km
- Bristol → Compton Valence80 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
- Cardiff → Compton Valence93 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £16–21
- London → Compton Valence191 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for Compton Valence
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 Valence. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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