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Parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

Frome Vauchurch

Frome Vauchurch is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester.

Frome Vauchurch
Frome Vauchurch · Wolfgang Moroder (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The place

Frome Vauchurch is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. It includes the hamlets of Frome Vauchurch, Higher Frome Vauchurch, Lower Frome Vauchurch and Tollerford. Frome Vauchurch is sited in the Frome valley amongst the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. The parish is adjacent to the village of Maiden Newton, with which the parish's hamlets are virtually contiguous. Dorset County Council's latest (2013) estimate of the parish population is 160.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Frome Vauchurch

One place 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.

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    Church of St Francis

    St Francis' Church is a Church of England church in Frome Vauchurch, Dorset, England. It has 12th-century origins, with a major rebuild in the 17th-century and restoration work in the 19th century.

    100 m · church in Frome Vauchurch, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Frome Vauchurch

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 68 km · Cardiff (CWL), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 166 km
Stations
Maiden Newton railway station, 700 m
  • Bristol → Frome Vauchurch
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Frome Vauchurch
    90 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £15–21
  • London → Frome Vauchurch
    189 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · £20–27
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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 Frome Vauchurch. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    Isle of WightGB

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    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

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    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

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    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    561 km
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    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    586 km

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