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Henstridge

Henstridge is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Sherborne in the South Somerset district, near the border with Dorset.

Henstridge
Henstridge · Andrew Bone from Weymouth, England
The place

Henstridge is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Sherborne in the South Somerset district, near the border with Dorset. The parish includes the hamlet of Yenston. In 2011, the village had a population of 1,814.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Henstridge

2 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
    Church of St Mary, Abbas and Templecombe

    The Anglican Church of St Mary at Templecombe, within the English county of Somerset, was built in the 12th century and is a Grade II* listed building. The parish is part of the benefice of Abbas and Templecombe, Henstridge and Horsington within the archdeaconry of Wells.

    3.6 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Nicholas

    The Church of St Nicholas in Henstridge, Somerset, England was built in the 12th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    300 m · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Henstridge

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Cardiff (CWL), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 145 km
Stations
Templecombe railway station, 3.5 km · Henstridge Airfield, 2.9 km · Henstridge railway station, 600 m · Stalbridge railway station, 2 km
  • Bristol → Henstridge
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £6–9
  • Cardiff → Henstridge
    78 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £12–16
  • London → Henstridge
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Henstridge

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 Henstridge. 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

    83 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    161 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    543 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    555 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    564 km

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

Around it

Next door to Henstridge

Henstridge is 55 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stalbridgetown and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK1.8 km
  • Purse Caundlevillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.5 km
  • Templecombevillage in Somerset, England, UK3.3 km
  • Abbas Combevillage in Abbas and Templecombe, Somerset, England3.6 km