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Goathill

Goathill is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in northern Dorset, a couple of miles east of the town of Sherborne.

The place

Goathill is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in northern Dorset, a couple of miles east of the town of Sherborne. It lies very close to the county boundary however, and for much of its history lay instead within the neighbouring county of Somerset, and has been described as being "just in Dorset by a nanny-goat's whisker". It remains part of the diocese of Bath and Wells.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Goathill

6 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
    Sherborne 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.

    3.9 km · church building in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sherborne 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.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Sherborne, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sherborne House, Dorset

    Sherborne House is a Grade I listed building in Newland, Sherborne, Dorset, England.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed English country house in Sherborne, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Parish 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.

    3.9 km · church building in Caundle Marsh, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sherborne 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.

    3.8 km · museum in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Old St Cuthbert's Church, Oborne

    The Old St Cuthbert's Church in Oborne, Dorset, England was built in 1533. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.3 km · church in Oborne, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Goathill

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Cardiff (CWL), 79 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 151 km
Stations
Sherborne railway station, 3.7 km · Church of St John the Evangelist, Milborne Port, 1.4 km · Ven House, 1.3 km · Town Hall, 1.5 km
  • Bristol → Goathill
    57 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £7–9
  • Cardiff → Goathill
    77 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £12–17
  • London → Goathill
    174 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Goathill

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 Goathill. 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

    87 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    156 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    544 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    552 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    570 km

If you know how people move in Goathill – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Goathill

Goathill is 57 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sherbornetown and civil parish in Dorset, England4 km
  • Milborne Portvillage and civil parish in South Somerset, Somerset, England1.5 km
  • Purse Caundlevillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK2 km
  • Poyntingtonvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.8 km
  • Obornevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.6 km
  • Caundle Marshvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.8 km