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Evershot

Evershot is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Yeovil in Somerset.

Evershot
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The place

Evershot is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Yeovil in Somerset. It is the second highest village in the county at 175 metres (574 ft) above sea-level. Evershot parish encompasses part of the nearby hamlet of Holywell, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) east of Evershot village. Dorset County Council's latest (2013) estimate of the parish population is 210. The village has connections with the writer Thomas Hardy.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Evershot

5 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
    Melbury House

    Melbury House is an English country house in the parish of Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset. The Grade I listed mansion is the home of the Honourable Charlotte Townshend, a major landowner in east Dorset, through her mother, Theresa Fox-Strangways, daughter and heiress of Harry Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester.

    1.4 km · Grade I listed house in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Edwold's Church, Stockwood

    St Edwold's Church in Stockwood, Dorset, England was rebuilt in the 15th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.8 km · church in Stockwood, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pugin Hall

    Pugin Hall is a private house, designed as a rectory by Augustus Pugin and built in 1846–1847 in Rampisham, Dorset, England. The house is a Grade I listed building, the top category, 'of highest significance'.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed building in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wraxall Manor

    Wraxall Manor is a grade II* listed manor house in Wraxall, Dorset, England. The house was built in about 1630, probably for William Lawrence.

    3.5 km · house in Wraxall, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parish Church of St Osmond

    St Osmund's Church is a Church of England parish church at Melbury Osmond, Dorset, England. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · church in Melbury Osmond, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Evershot

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 61 km · Cardiff (CWL), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 165 km
Stations
Chetnole railway station, 3.8 km · Evershot railway station, 1.8 km
  • Bristol → Evershot
    68 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Evershot
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–21
  • London → Evershot
    7 km · quickest by road, 38 min · £0.5–1
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Evershot

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 Evershot. 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

    93 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    149 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    550 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    553 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    585 km

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