--- title: "Lulworth Camp – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Lulworth Camp, United Kingdom: Lulworth Camp is a British Army base that is home to the Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School and runs the Lulworth…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lulworth-camp" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lulworth-camp.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Army base in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Lulworth Camp Lulworth Camp is a British Army base that is home to the Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School and runs the Lulworth Ranges on the southern coast of Dorset, England. The place Lulworth Camp is a British Army base that is home to the Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School and runs the Lulworth Ranges on the southern coast of Dorset, England. It is part of Bovington Garrison and is located on the Purbeck Ridge between the villages of East and West Lulworth. The camp lies immediately southeast of the road junction between the B 3070 and B 3071 and about a mile northeast of Lulworth Cove. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulworth_Camp), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Lulworth Camp 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. Lulworth Castle Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, England, situated south of the village of Wool, is an early 17th-century hunting lodge erected in the style of a revival fortified castle, one of only five extant Elizabethan or Jacobean buildings of this type. It is listed with Historic England as a scheduled monument. 1.8 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulworth_Castle) 2. Hambury Tout Hambury Tout is a large chalk hill by the coast near Lulworth, Dorset, England. The hill overlooks Lulworth Cove to the west. 2.4 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambury_Tout) 3. Lulworth Abbey Lulworth Abbey was a Trappist monastery at East Lulworth in Dorset, England, established as a priory in 1796 by Thomas Weld for refugee French Trappist monks moving on from temporary shelter in the abandoned La Valsainte Charterhouse in Switzerland. The monastery at Lulworth was raised to the status of an abbey in 1813 by Pope Pius VII. In 1817 it was abandoned, as the monks were able to return to France, to the newly-re-established Melleray Abbey near Nantes. 1.8 km · trappist monastery in Dorset, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulworth_Abbey) 4. Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant) Holy Rood Church is a former Church of England church in Coombe Keynes, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1860–61, but the tower and chancel arch is 13th-century. 2.6 km · church building in Coombe Keynes, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Rood_Church,_Coombe_Keynes) 5. The Castle Inn The Castle Inn is a public house in West Lulworth, Dorset, England, which dates from the 16th century. It was originally called The Green Man, and later The Jolly Sailor. 1.2 km · public house in West Lulworth, Dorset, England, which dates from the 16th century · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Inn) 6. Flower's Barrow Flower's Barrow is an Iron Age hillfort, built over 2,500 years ago on Rings Hill, above Worbarrow Bay in Dorset on the south coast of England. It is located about 11 miles west of Swanage and about 6.25 miles southwest of Wareham. 3 km · Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower%27s_Barrow) 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 Lulworth Camp **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 90 km · Cardiff (CWL), 115 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 155 km\ - Bristol → Lulworth Camp 95 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £11–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-lulworth-camp) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Lulworth+Camp) - London → Lulworth Camp 176 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-lulworth-camp) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Lulworth+Camp) - Cardiff → Lulworth Camp 115 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £17–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-lulworth-camp) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Lulworth+Camp) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Lulworth%20Camp) 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 Lulworth Camp 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 Lulworth Camp. 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 66 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 181 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 575 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 583 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 584 km If you know how people move in Lulworth Camp – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clulworth-camp&title=Lulworth+Camp&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flulworth-camp), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Lulworth Camp - [West Lulworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-lulworth) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 1.3 km - [East Lulworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/east-lulworth) hamlet in Dorset, England, UK 2.4 km - [Coombe Keynes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coombe-keynes) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.7 km - [Lulworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lulworth) area of Dorset, England 1.8 km [The place page for Lulworth Camp](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/lulworth-camp) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lulworth-camp, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt