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Melplash

Melplash is a village in western Dorset, England.

Melplash
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The place

Melplash is a village in western Dorset, England. It is situated on the A3066 road 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Bridport and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Beaminster.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Melplash

4 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
    All Saints' Church, Mapperton

    All Saints' Church is a private church, formerly belonging to the Church of England, in Mapperton, Dorset, England. The church is believed to have 12th century origins, with later additions and rebuilds.

    2.1 km · private church in Mapperton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parnham House

    Parnham House is a sixteenth-century Grade I listed house located in Parnham Park about 1 mile from Beaminster in Dorset, England. Historic England describes the house as "exceptionally important".

    2.1 km · Grade I listed house in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Christ Church, Melplash

    Christ Church is a Church of England church in Melplash, Dorset, England. It was built in 1845–46 to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey and has been a Grade II* listed building since 1984.

    900 m · church in Melplash, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England church in Salway Ash, Dorset, England. The church was designed by George Crickmay and built in 1887–89.

    3.1 km · church in Salway Ash, Dorset · Wikipedia

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Getting to Melplash

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 67 km · Cardiff (CWL), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 176 km
  • Bristol → Melplash
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Melplash
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £15–20
  • London → Melplash
    199 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £21–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Melplash

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    101 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    143 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    545 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    557 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    592 km

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

Around it

Next door to Melplash

  • Beaminstertown and civil parish in Dorset, England3.1 km
  • Netherburyvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK1.6 km
  • Powerstockvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Stoke Abbottvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Mappertonhamlet and civil parish in west Dorset, England, UK2.6 km
  • North Poortonvillage and civil parish in West Dorset, Dorset, England3.3 km