Melbury Sampford

Worth seeing in and around Melbury Sampford

5 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
   St Edwold's Church, Stockwood

   St Edwold's Church in Stockwood, Dorset, England was rebuilt in the 15th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   1.7 km · church in Stockwood, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Melbury House

   Melbury House is an English country house in the parish of Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset. The Grade I listed mansion is the home of the Honourable Charlotte Townshend, a major landowner in east Dorset, through her mother, Theresa Fox-Strangways, daughter and heiress of Harry Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester.

   200 m · Grade I listed house in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Parish Church of St Peter

   St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Chetnole, Dorset, and in the Diocese of Salisbury. It is in the Three Valleys Benefice.

   3.4 km · church in Chetnole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Parish Church of St Osmond

   St Osmund's Church is a Church of England parish church at Melbury Osmond, Dorset, England. The church is a Grade I listed building.

   1.7 km · church in Melbury Osmond, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Pugin Hall

   Pugin Hall is a private house, designed as a rectory by Augustus Pugin and built in 1846–1847 in Rampisham, Dorset, England. The house is a Grade I listed building, the top category, 'of highest significance'.

   3.8 km · Grade I listed building in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Melbury Sampford

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 59 km · Cardiff (CWL), 79 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 165 km

Stations

Chetnole railway station, 2.7 km · Evershot railway station, 2.6 km

• Bristol → Melbury Sampford

  67 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £8–10
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• Cardiff → Melbury Sampford

  80 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £15–21
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• London → Melbury Sampford

  187 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £20–26
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