East Stour
East Stour is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Dorset in southern England.
East Stour is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the Dorset administrative district, about two miles south of the town of Gillingham. The village is 1⁄2 mile from the east bank of the River Stour in the Blackmore Vale and two miles west of the broadly conical local landmark Duncliffe Hill. Above the west bank of the river, about one mile away, is the village of West Stour. The A30 London to Penzance road passes through the village. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 573.
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Worth seeing in and around East Stour
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.
- 01Christ Church
Christ Church is a Church of England parish church in East Stour, Dorset, England. The church, a Grade II listed building, was designed by George Alexander and built in 1841–42.
100 m · church building in East Stour, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St George Langham
St George's Church is a Church of England church in Langham, Gillingham, Dorset, England. It was designed by Charles Ponting and built in 1921.
3.8 km · church building in Gillingham, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03All Saints Church
All Saints' Church is a former Church of England church in Stour Row, Dorset, England. The church, a Grade II listed building, was designed by John Hicks and built in 1867.
2.9 km · church building in Stour Provost, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset
St Mary's Church is the parish church for the town of Gillingham in the Blackmore Vale in the north of Dorset. The church is in the Diocese of Salisbury in the Church of England, and part of the Anglican Communion.
3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Gillingham, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to East Stour
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Cardiff (CWL), 85 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 137 km
- Stations
- Gillingham railway station, 3.3 km
- Bristol → East Stour54 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–9
- Cardiff → East Stour81 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £13–18
- London → East Stour160 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £17–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for East Stour
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 East Stour. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in East Stour – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to East Stour
East Stour is 54 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Gillinghamtown and civil parish in Dorset, England3.7 km
- Fifehead Magdalenvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.3 km
- Kington Magnavillage and civil parish in Dorset, England3.6 km
- Stour Provostvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK1.4 km
- West Stourvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.4 km
- Todbervillage in Dorset, England, UK2.5 km