Friars Cliff
Friars Cliff is a neighborhood and beach in Christchurch, Dorset.
Friars Cliff is a neighborhood and beach in Christchurch, Dorset. It is east of Mudeford and west of Highcliffe.
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Worth seeing in and around Friars Cliff
10 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.
- 01Christchurch Castle
Christchurch Castle is a Norman motte and bailey castle in Christchurch, Dorset, England. The earliest stonework has been dated to 1160.
3.1 km · castle, now ruinous, in Christchurch, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Christchurch Priory
Christchurch Priory is an ecclesiastical parish and former priory church in Christchurch in the English county of Dorset. It is one of the longest parish churches in the country and is as large as many of the Church of England Cathedrals.
3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Christchurch, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Highcliffe Castle
Highcliffe Castle, situated on the cliffs at Highcliffe, Dorset, was built between 1831 and 1835 by Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay in a Romantic and Picturesque, Gothic Revival style near the site of High Cliff House, a Georgian Mansion designed for the 3rd Earl of Bute with the gardens laid out by Capability Brown. The design, by William Donthorne, a founder member of RIBA, incorporated large quantities of carved Medieval stonework salvaged from the ruined Benedictine Abbey of St Peter at Jumieges and the Grand' Maison des Andelys, both situated in Normandy, France.
1.3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Highcliffe and Walkford, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Hinton Admiral
Hinton Admiral is the estate and ancestral home of the Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick family and located in the settlement of Hinton, near Bransgore in Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I Listed building.
2.5 km · Grade I listed English country house in New Forest District, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Red House Museum and Gardens
The Red House Museum and Gardens is a museum of local history located in Christchurch, Dorset. The red-brick Georgian building was constructed in 1764 as the parish workhouse.
3.3 km · Museum in Christchurch, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Warren Hill
Warren Hill is the elevated part of Hengistbury Head in Dorset, England, overlooking Christchurch to the North and dominating Poole Bay to the West. With finds stretching back over 10,000 years, it is a site of international importance in terms of its archaeology and is scheduled both as an Ancient Monument, and a Local Nature Reserve.
2.6 km · archaeological site by Christchurch · Wikipedia - 07The Town Hall
The Town Hall, Christchurch is a municipal building in Christchurch, Dorset, England. The building, which incorporates a room known as the mayor's parlour on the first floor, and is a Grade II listed building.
3.4 km · town hall in Christchurch, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St John's Church, Purewell
St John's Church is a Church of England mission church in Purewell, Dorset, England. It was built in 1880–81.
2.2 km · church in Purewell, Dorset · Wikipedia - 09Parish Church of St Luke
St. Luke's Church is a Church of England parish church in Burton, Dorset, England.
3.4 km · church building in Burton, Christchurch, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Burton Common
Burton Common is a 32.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Bransgore in Hampshire. This dry heath has over-mature heather with a rich bryophyte and lichen flora.
2.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Friars Cliff
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 100 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 118 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 121 km
- Stations
- Hinton Admiral railway station, 2.6 km · Christchurch railway station, 3.9 km · Christchurch Harbour, 2 km
- London → Friars Cliff141 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £15–20
- Bristol → Friars Cliff100 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £12–16
- Cardiff → Friars Cliff131 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Friars Cliff
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 Friars Cliff. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextGood location for day trips to the New Forest, Lymington and Beaulieu.
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Next door to Friars Cliff
- Q925424coastal town in Dorset, England3.5 km
- Burtonvillage in Burton and Winkton, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England3.3 km
- Highcliffetown in Christchurch, Dorset, England2.6 km
- Mudefordvillage in Dorset, England, UK1.6 km
- Highcliffe and Walkfordcivil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England2.6 km
- Hintonhamlet in Hampshire, UK4 km