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Corfe

Corfe is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated below the Blackdown Hills 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Taunton.

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The place

Corfe is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated below the Blackdown Hills 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Taunton. The village has a population of 253.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Corfe

9 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
    Staple Hill

    Staple Hill is a hill in the English county of Somerset, the highest point in the Blackdown Hills. It is classed as both a Marilyn and a Hardy.

    2.9 km · hill in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints, Trull

    The Church of All Saints in Trull, Somerset, England has a tower dating from the 13th century; the rest is 15th-century. The building has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · church in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Peter, Staple Fitzpaine

    Church of St Peter, Staple Fitzpaine is Norman in origin, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church has a Norman doorway reset in the south aisle.

    3.1 km · church in Staple Fitzpaine, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Thomas

    The Church of St Thomas in the village of Thurlbear, which is in the parish of Orchard Portman, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

    3.5 km · church in Orchard Portman, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Andrew & St Mary, Pitminster

    The Church of St Andrew & St Mary in Pitminster, Somerset, England was built around 1300 and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The current church was built circa 1300 on the site of an earlier Saxon church and expanded in the 15th century.

    1.5 km · church in Pitminster, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Michael's Church

    The Anglican Church of St Michael in Orchard Portman, Somerset, England, dates from the Norman period. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.3 km · church in Orchard Portman, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Michael

    The Anglican Church of St Michael in Angersleigh, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.7 km · church in Angersleigh, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Nicholas

    The Anglican Church of St Nicholas in Corfe, Somerset, England was built in the Norman period and rebuilt in 1842. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    300 m · church in Corfe, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Poundisford Park

    Poundisford Park north of Pitminster, Somerset, England is an English country house that typifies progressive housebuilding on the part of the West Country gentry in the mid-16th century. The main house was built for William Hill around 1550 and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    1.4 km · grade I listed manor house in Pitminster, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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 Corfe

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 51 km · Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 189 km
  • Cardiff → Corfe
    57 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–16
  • Bristol → Corfe
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–10
  • London → Corfe
    215 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · £22–29
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Corfe

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 Corfe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWithin the West Country itself are two seaports offering international ferry services: Plymouth receives ferries from Roscoff and St Malo in France, and Santander in Spain, while Poole receives ferries from Cherbourg and St Malo in France, plus Santander and the Channel Islands.

From Wikivoyage: West Country, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    113 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    129 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    513 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    530 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    566 km

If you know how people move in Corfe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Corfe

Corfe is 57 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.