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Drimpton

Drimpton is a village in the English county of Dorset, situated approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Beaminster and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Crewkerne in Somerset.

Drimpton
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The place

Drimpton is a village in the English county of Dorset, situated approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Beaminster and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Crewkerne in Somerset. It lies within the civil parish of Broadwindsor.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Drimpton

8 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
    Pilsdon Pen

    Pilsdon Pen is a 277-metre hill in Dorset in South West England, situated at the north end of the Marshwood Vale, approximately 4.5 miles west of Beaminster. It is Dorset's second highest point and has panoramic views extending for many miles.

    4 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Conegar Hill

    Conegar Hill is a prominent rise, 214 metres high, just north of the village of Broadwindsor in the Yeovil Scarplands, in the county of Dorset in southern England. It has a prominence of 51 metres which classifies it as one of the Tumps.

    2.7 km · 214m high hill in Broadwindsor, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St John

    St John's Church is a Church of England church in Seaborough, Dorset, England. Much of the church dates to a rebuild of 1882 and it now forms part of the Beaminster Area Team Ministry.

    1.5 km · church building in Seaborough, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Mosterton, Dorset, England. The church was designed by Edmund Pearce and built in 1832–33 to replace an earlier building.

    4 km · church building in Mosterton, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wayford Manor House

    Wayford Manor House is a country house with a garden in Britain, situated in Wayford, Somerset, England. It has been designated a Grade I listed building.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed manor house in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Michael

    The Anglican Church of St Michael in Wayford, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.1 km · church in Wayford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Clapton Mill

    Clapton Mill is a former watermill located in the hamlet of Clapton, West Crewkerne, Somerset, England. The existing mill dates back to the 18th century, but was extensively rebuilt in 1864.

    1.4 km · aqueduct in West Crewkerne, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Mary's Church, Drimpton

    St. Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Drimpton, Dorset, England.

    100 m · church in Drimpton, Dorset, England · 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.

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Getting to Drimpton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 61 km · Cardiff (CWL), 71 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 179 km
  • Bristol → Drimpton
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Drimpton
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £14–19
  • London → Drimpton
    202 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · £21–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Drimpton

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 Drimpton. 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

    109 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    134 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    536 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    548 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    584 km

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Around it

Next door to Drimpton

  • Seaboroughvillage in Dorset, England, UK1.4 km
  • Broadwindsorvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Burstockvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Wayfordvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom2 km
  • Blackdownvillage in Dorset, United Kingdom3 km