Lydlinch
Lydlinch is a village and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale in north Dorset, England, about three miles west of Sturminster Newton.
Lydlinch is a village and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale in north Dorset, England, about three miles west of Sturminster Newton. The village is sited on Oxford clay close to the small River Lydden. The parish – which includes the village of King's Stag to the south and Stock Gaylard House to the west – is bounded by the Lydden to the east and its tributary, the Caundle Brook, to the north.
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Worth seeing in and around Lydlinch
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.
- 01King's Stag Memorial Chapel
King's Stag Memorial Chapel is a Church of England chapel in King's Stag, Dorset, England.
3 km · church in King's Stag, Dorset, England · Wikipedia - 02Stock Gaylard House
Stock Gaylard House is a country house near Lydlinch, and about 4 miles west of Sturminster Newton, in Dorset, England. It is Grade II* listed.
2.2 km · country house in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lydlinch
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Cardiff (CWL), 86 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 146 km
- Bristol → Lydlinch62 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £7–10
- Cardiff → Lydlinch85 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £15–20
- London → Lydlinch170 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £18–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lydlinch
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 Lydlinch. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
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