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Melcombe Horsey

Melcombe Horsey is a civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England.

Melcombe Horsey
Melcombe Horsey · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Melcombe Horsey is a civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It contains the small settlements of Melcombe Bingham, Bingham's Melcombe and Higher Melcombe, the last being the site of the deserted village of Melcombe Horsey. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 141.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Melcombe Horsey

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.

  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.

    3.7 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

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

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Getting to Melcombe Horsey

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 67 km · Cardiff (CWL), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 151 km
  • Bristol → Melcombe Horsey
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Melcombe Horsey
    92 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £16–21
  • London → Melcombe Horsey
    173 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Melcombe Horsey

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.

From Wikivoyage: Dorset, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    75 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    167 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    560 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    566 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    571 km

If you know how people move in Melcombe Horsey – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Melcombe Horsey

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  • Hiltonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.2 km
  • Anstyvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.3 km
  • Melcombe Binghamvillage in Dorset, United Kingdom1.3 km
  • Ansty Crosshamlet in Dorset, England, UK2.3 km
  • Plushvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.4 km