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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

# Loders

Loders is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset.

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Loders · Dllu

The place

Loders is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of the town of Bridport. It is a linear village, sited in the valley of the small River Asker, between Waddon Hill and Boarsbarrow Hill. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 518.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loders), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Loders

8 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. Bridport Bridport is a market town and civil parish in Dorset, England, 1+1⁄2 miles inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Its origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre. 3.8 km · market town in Dorset, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridport)
2. Holy Trinity Old Church, Bothenhampton Holy Trinity Old Church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England was built in the 13th or 14th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. 3.2 km · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Old_Church,_Bothenhampton)
3. Parish Church of St Mary St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building. 3.4 km · church in Bridport, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Bridport)
4. Bridport Museum Bridport Museum is a museum in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is housed within an early 16th-century building known as the Castle, located on South Street. 3.2 km · museum in Bridport, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridport_Museum)
5. Christ Church, Melplash Christ Church is a Church of England church in Melplash, Dorset, England. It was built in 1845–46 to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey and has been a Grade II\* listed building since 1984. 3.5 km · church in Melplash, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church,_Melplash)
6. 9, East Street The George Inn is a historic building in the town of Bridport, Dorset, England. 3.2 km · building in West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_George_Inn,_Bridport)
7. Holy Trinity Church, Bothenhampton Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church at Bothenhampton, near Bridport in Dorset, England. It was designed and built by the English arts and crafts architect Edward Schroeder Prior in 1887–89. 3.4 km · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Bothenhampton)
8. St Saviour's Church, Dottery St Saviour's Church is a Church of England church in Dottery, Dorset, England. Erected in 1881–82, the corrugated iron church is the only one of its type in Dorset used for regular worship. 3.8 km · church in Dorset, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Saviour%27s_Church,_Dottery)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Loders

**Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 71 km · Cardiff (CWL), 85 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 177 km\
**Stations:** Powerstock railway station, 2.9 km · Bridport railway station, 2.3 km · Bridport East Street railway station, 2.7 km\

- Bristol → Loders 79 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-loders) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Loders)
- Cardiff → Loders 88 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-loders) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Loders)
- London → Loders 200 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-loders) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Loders)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Loders)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Loders

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 Loders. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 100 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 145 km
3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 548 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 561 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 597 km

If you know how people move in Loders – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cloders&title=Loders&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Floders), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Loders

- [Allington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/allington) village in Bridport, Dorset, England 3.7 km
- [Powerstock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/powerstock) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3 km
- [Shipton Gorge](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shipton-gorge) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.3 km
- [Bothenhampton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bothenhampton) village in Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom 3.9 km
- [Askerswell](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/askerswell) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 3.7 km
- [Bradpole](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bradpole) village in Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom 1.8 km

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