Folke
Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Sherborne.
Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Sherborne. The parish has an area of 2,120 acres (8.6 km2) and is made of the villages of Folke and Alweston, and the hamlet of Bishops Down.
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Worth seeing in and around Folke
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.
- 01Sherborne Abbey
Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset.
3.7 km · church building in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Sherborne Castle
Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion located southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton. Originally built by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, and extended in the 1620s, it stands in a 1,200-acre park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre Digby estate.
3.1 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Sherborne, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Sherborne House, Dorset
Sherborne House is a Grade I listed building in Newland, Sherborne, Dorset, England.
4 km · Grade I listed English country house in Sherborne, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul
St Peter and St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in Caundle Marsh, Dorset, England. It was designed by Robert Howard Shout and built in 1856–57.
1.9 km · church building in Caundle Marsh, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Sherborne Museum
Sherborne Museum is an independent, community-run museum located in the centre of Sherborne, Dorset. It is housed in the Abbey Gatehouse, a Grade II listed building situated on Church Lane, a pedestrianised thoroughfare connecting the town's market place with Sherborne Abbey.
3.6 km · museum in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Folke
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 54 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 154 km
- Stations
- Sherborne railway station, 3.3 km
- Bristol → Folke60 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–10
- Cardiff → Folke79 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–19
- London → Folke177 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Folke
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 Folke. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
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Next door to Folke
- Sherbornetown and civil parish in Dorset, England4 km
- Holnestvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.9 km
- Longburtonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK1.3 km
- Caundle Marshvillage in Dorset, England, UK1.8 km
- Haydonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England2.6 km
- Castletoncivil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.4 km