--- title: "Eype Mouth – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Eype Mouth, United Kingdom: Eype Mouth is a natural break in a line of sea cliffs on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in west Dorset on the south…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eype-mouth" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eype-mouth.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Sea cliff beak in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Eype Mouth Eype Mouth is a natural break in a line of sea cliffs on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in west Dorset on the south coast of England. The place Eype Mouth is a natural break in a line of sea cliffs on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in west Dorset on the south coast of England. The small River Eype drains into the sea at this point. Eype means 'a steep place' in Old English. The village of Eype lies just upstream of the rivermouth, which is reached by a single narrow lane which runs down through Lower Eype to a shingle beach with car park. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eype_Mouth), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Eype Mouth 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. 1. Bridport Bridport is a market town and civil parish in Dorset, England, 1+1⁄2 miles inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Its origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre. 2.3 km · market town in Dorset, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridport) 2. St John's Church, West Bay St John's Church is a Church of England church in West Bay, Dorset, England. It was built in 1935–39 to the designs of William Henry Randoll Blacking and has been a Grade II listed building since 1975. 1.6 km · church building in Bridport, West Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_West_Bay) 3. Parish Church of St Mary St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building. 2.4 km · church in Bridport, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Bridport) 4. Holy Trinity Old Church, Bothenhampton Holy Trinity Old Church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England was built in the 13th or 14th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. 2.8 km · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Old_Church,_Bothenhampton) 5. St Peter's Church St Peter's Church is a Church of England church in Eype, Dorset, England. Built in 1864–65, the church now also serves as an arts venue, known as the Eype Centre for the Arts. 900 m · church in Eype, Dorset, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Eype) 6. Thorncombe Beacon Thorncombe Beacon is a hill between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England. It lies about 1 kilometre west of Eype Mouth and 2 kilometres east of Seatown. 1.4 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorncombe_Beacon) 7. Bridport Museum Bridport Museum is a museum in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is housed within an early 16th-century building known as the Castle, located on South Street. 2.6 km · museum in Bridport, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridport_Museum) 8. 9, East Street The George Inn is a historic building in the town of Bridport, Dorset, England. 2.7 km · building in West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_George_Inn,_Bridport) 9. Holy Trinity Church, Bothenhampton Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church at Bothenhampton, near Bridport in Dorset, England. It was designed and built by the English arts and crafts architect Edward Schroeder Prior in 1887–89. 2.4 km · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Bothenhampton) 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. Go there ## Getting to Eype Mouth **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 74 km · Cardiff (CWL), 85 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 183 km\ **Stations:** Bridport West Bay railway station, 1.8 km · Bridport railway station, 3.6 km · Bridport East Street railway station, 3 km\ - Bristol → Eype Mouth Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-eype-mouth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Eype+Mouth) - Cardiff → Eype Mouth Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-eype-mouth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Eype+Mouth) - London → Eype Mouth Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-eype-mouth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Eype+Mouth) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Eype%20Mouth) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Eype Mouth 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 Eype Mouth. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 104 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 142 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 546 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 563 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 598 km If you know how people move in Eype Mouth – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ceype-mouth&title=Eype+Mouth&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Feype-mouth), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Eype Mouth - [Chideock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chideock) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 3.1 km - [Allington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/allington) village in Bridport, Dorset, England 2.6 km - [Bothenhampton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bothenhampton) village in Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom 2.3 km - [Symondsbury](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/symondsbury) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.8 km - [West Bay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-bay) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.2 km - [Eype](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eype) village in Dorset, England, UK 900 m [The place page for Eype Mouth](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/eype-mouth) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eype-mouth, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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