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Coombe Keynes

Coombe Keynes is a hamlet, civil parish and depopulated village in Dorset, England.

Coombe Keynes
Coombe Keynes · Ashley Smith
The place

Coombe Keynes is a hamlet, civil parish and depopulated village in Dorset, England. The village is about 2 miles (3 km) south of Wool and about 5 miles (8 km) west-south-west of Wareham.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coombe Keynes

5 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
    Lulworth Castle

    Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, England, situated south of the village of Wool, is an early 17th-century hunting lodge erected in the style of a revival fortified castle, one of only five extant Elizabethan or Jacobean buildings of this type. It is listed with Historic England as a scheduled monument.

    2.3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bindon Abbey

    Bindon Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, of which only ruins remain, on the River Frome about half a mile east of Wool in Dorset, England.

    2.8 km · monastery in Wool, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant)

    Holy Rood Church is a former Church of England church in Coombe Keynes, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1860–61, but the tower and chancel arch is 13th-century.

    100 m · church building in Coombe Keynes, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Castle Inn

    The Castle Inn is a public house in West Lulworth, Dorset, England, which dates from the 16th century. It was originally called The Green Man, and later The Jolly Sailor.

    3.8 km · public house in West Lulworth, Dorset, England, which dates from the 16th century · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Woolbridge Manor House

    Woolbridge Manor is a 17th-century manor house just outside the village of Wool, in Dorset, England. English Heritage have designated it a Grade II* listed building.

    3 km · manor house in East Stoke, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Coombe Keynes

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 88 km · Cardiff (CWL), 113 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 153 km
Stations
Wool railway station, 2.7 km
  • Bristol → Coombe Keynes
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–14
  • Cardiff → Coombe Keynes
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £17–22
  • London → Coombe Keynes
    174 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Coombe Keynes

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 Coombe Keynes. 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

    65 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    181 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    573 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    580 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    583 km

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