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Long Bredy

Long Bredy is a village in the civil parish of Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, in the county of Dorset in south-west England, situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of the county town Dorchester.

Long Bredy
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The place

Long Bredy is a village in the civil parish of Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, in the county of Dorset in south-west England, situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in the valley of the small River Bride, beneath chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 208. On 1 April 2024 the parish was abolished and merged with Kingston Russell to form "Long Bredy and Kingston Russell".

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Long Bredy

4 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
    Abbotsbury Castle

    Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in south west Dorset, England, situated on Wears Hill above the village of Abbotsbury, seven miles west of Dorchester and the famous hill fort at Maiden Castle. It is situated on a high chalk hill overlooking the English Channel, and in its day was the front line of defence from invasion.

    3.7 km · Iron Age hill fort in south west Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows

    Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery is an archaeological site, a group of Bronze Age round barrows, near the A35 road about 2 miles west of Winterbourne Abbas, in Dorset, England. It is an English Heritage site.

    2.1 km · archaeological site in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels

    St Michael and All Angels Church is a Grade II listed Anglican church in the village of Littlebredy, Dorset, England.

    2.1 km · church in Littlebredy, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kingston Russell House

    Kingston Russell House is a large mansion house and manor near Long Bredy in Dorset, England, west of Dorchester. The present house dates from the late 17th century but in 1730 was clad in a white Georgian stone facade.

    600 m · building in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Long Bredy

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 75 km · Cardiff (CWL), 92 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 173 km
  • Bristol → Long Bredy
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
  • Cardiff → Long Bredy
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £16–22
  • London → Long Bredy
    195 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Long Bredy

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 Long Bredy. 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

    92 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    153 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    557 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    567 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    593 km

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