Cranborne

Worth seeing in and around Cranborne

4 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
   Cranborne Manor

   Cranborne Manor is a Grade I listed country house in Cranborne, Dorset, in southern England. The manor dates back to around 1207/8, and was originally a hunting lodge.

   300 m · Grade I listed English country house in East Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Church of St Giles, Wimborne St Giles

   The Church of St Giles is the Church of England parish church for the village of Wimborne St Giles, Dorset. Originally founded in the 13th century and rebuilt several times over the ensuing centuries, the present church is a mixture of Georgian and Gothic Revival architecture.

   2.7 km · church in Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Edmondsham House

   Edmondsham House is an English country house in Edmondsham near Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England. The house is Tudor with Georgian additions and is a Grade II* listed building.

   1.8 km · country house in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Aldhelm's Chapel

   St Aldhelm's Church is a former Church of England church in Boveridge, Dorset, England. It was built at the expense of Richard Brouncker in 1838 and became redundant in 1980.

   1.5 km · chapel in Cranborne, East Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cranborne

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Bristol (BRS), 76 km · Cardiff (CWL), 112 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 119 km

• Bristol → Cranborne

  76 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £9–12
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• London → Cranborne

  141 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £15–21
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• Cardiff → Cranborne

  108 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £15–20
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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 Cranborne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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