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Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

# Melplash

Melplash is a village in western Dorset, England.

![Melplash](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Melplash_Church.JPG/1920px-Melplash_Church.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

Melplash · Sealman

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melplash), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Mapperton)
2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Salway_Ash)
3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parnham_House)
4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church,_Melplash)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-melplash) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Melplash)
- Cardiff → Melplash 84 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-melplash) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Melplash)
- London → Melplash 199 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £21–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-melplash) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Melplash)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Melplash)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 101 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 143 km
3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 545 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 557 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 592 km

If you know how people move in Melplash – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmelplash&title=Melplash&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmelplash), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Melplash

- [Beaminster](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beaminster) town and civil parish in Dorset, England 3.1 km
- [Powerstock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/powerstock) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.9 km
- [Netherbury](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/netherbury) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 1.6 km
- [Stoke Abbott](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stoke-abbott) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.8 km
- [Mapperton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mapperton) hamlet and civil parish in west Dorset, England, UK 2.6 km
- [North Poorton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-poorton) village and civil parish in West Dorset, Dorset, England 3.3 km

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