Mappowder

Worth seeing in and around Mappowder

3 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
   Bulbarrow Hill

   Bulbarrow Hill is a 274 metres hill near Woolland, five miles west of Blandford Forum and ten miles north of Dorchester in Dorset, England. The chalk hill is part of the scarp of Dorset Downs, which form the western end of the Southern England Chalk Formation.

   3.3 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Bookham Knoll

   Bookham Knoll is a rounded hill, 211 metres high, about 1 kilometre southeast of the village of Buckland Newton in the county of Dorset in southern England. Its prominence of 43 metres qualifies it as one of the Tumps.

   3.5 km · 211m high hill in Buckland Newton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Lyscombe Hill

   Lyscombe Hill is a hill near Melcombe Bingham about 14 kilometres north-northeast of Dorchester in the county of Dorset, England. It is part of the Dorset Downs and is listed as a so-called HuMP. There is evidence of ancient settlement in the area, including tumuli, dykes and an Iron Age hillfort, known as Nettlecombe Tout, near the summit at grid reference ST 7368 0309, and at the end of the hill spur of the same name.

   3.2 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mappowder

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Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Cardiff (CWL), 90 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 150 km

• Bristol → Mappowder

  68 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £8–11
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• Cardiff → Mappowder

  89 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £15–21
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• London → Mappowder

  173 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Mappowder

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 Mappowder. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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