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.
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.
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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.
- 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.
3.9 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.
2.8 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.
3.7 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.
3.9 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.
3.8 km · museum in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Old 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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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 → Goathill57 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £7–9
- Cardiff → Goathill77 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £12–17
- London → Goathill174 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £18–24
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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.
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If you know how people move in Goathill – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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