Melcombe Horsey
Melcombe Horsey is a civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England.
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.
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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.
- 01Bulbarrow 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 - 02Lyscombe 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 Horsey72 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £8–11
- Cardiff → Melcombe Horsey92 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £16–21
- London → Melcombe Horsey173 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · £19–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.
- Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
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