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

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.
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.
- 01Staple 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 - 02Church 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 - 03Church 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 - 04Church 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 - 05Church 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 - 06St 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 - 07Church 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 - 08Church 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 - 09Poundisford 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
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Getting to Corfe
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 51 km · Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Birmingham (BHX), 189 km
- Cardiff → Corfe57 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–16
- Bristol → Corfe64 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–10
- London → Corfe215 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · £22–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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Next door to Corfe
Corfe is 57 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Stoke St Maryvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom4 km
- Trullvillage in Somerset, England, UK3.6 km
- Orchard Portmanvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.2 km
- Staple Fitzpainevillage in Somerset, England, UK2.9 km
- Pitminstervillage and civil parish in Somerset, England1 km
- Blagdon Hillvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.6 km