--- title: "Coombe Keynes – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Coombe Keynes, United Kingdom: Coombe Keynes is a hamlet, civil parish and depopulated village in Dorset, England. Nearby: Lulworth Castle, Bindon Abbey…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coombe-keynes" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coombe-keynes.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Holy_Rood_Church%2C_Coombe_Keynes.jpg/1920px-Holy_Rood_Church%2C_Coombe_Keynes.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Hamlet in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Coombe Keynes Coombe Keynes is a hamlet, civil parish and depopulated village in Dorset, England. ![Coombe Keynes](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Holy_Rood_Church%2C_Coombe_Keynes.jpg/1920px-Holy_Rood_Church%2C_Coombe_Keynes.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coombe_Keynes), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulworth_Castle) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindon_Abbey) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Rood_Church,_Coombe_Keynes) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Inn) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolbridge_Manor_House) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-coombe-keynes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Coombe+Keynes) - Cardiff → Coombe Keynes 113 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £17–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-coombe-keynes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Coombe+Keynes) - London → Coombe Keynes 174 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-coombe-keynes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Coombe+Keynes) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Coombe%20Keynes) 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 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 65 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 181 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 573 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 580 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 583 km If you know how people move in Coombe Keynes – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ccoombe-keynes&title=Coombe+Keynes&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fcoombe-keynes), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Coombe Keynes - [Wool](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wool) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 2.5 km - [West Lulworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-lulworth) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 3.9 km - [Winfrith Newburgh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winfrith-newburgh) village and civil parish in Dorset, UK 3.6 km - [East Stoke](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/east-stoke) village and civil parish in Dorset, UK 3.6 km - [East Lulworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/east-lulworth) hamlet in Dorset, England, UK 3.2 km - [Lulworth Camp](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lulworth-camp) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.8 km [The place page for Coombe Keynes](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/coombe-keynes) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coombe-keynes, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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