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Morcombelake

Morcombelake is a small village near Bridport in Dorset, England, within the ancient parish of Whitchurch Canonicorum.

Morcombelake
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The place

Morcombelake is a small village near Bridport in Dorset, England, within the ancient parish of Whitchurch Canonicorum. Golden Cap, part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, is nearby.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Morcombelake

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
    Golden Cap

    Golden Cap is a hill and cliff situated on the English Channel coast between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England. At 191 metres, it is the highest point within a mile of the south coast of Great Britain from the coastline) and is visible for tens of miles along the coastline.

    2.1 km · hill and cliff situated on the English Channel coast between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Candida and Holy Cross, Whitchurch Canonicorum

    The Church of St Candida and Holy Cross is an Anglican church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England. A Saxon church stood on the site but nothing remains of that structure.

    1.4 km · Grade I listed church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Marshwood Castle

    Marshwood Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle in Marshwood, Dorset, within the Vale of Marshwood. It was built by William de Mandeville following his elevation to Baron Marshwood in 1205 by King John, and is first recorded as a built castle in 1215.

    3.6 km · castle in Marshwood, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Parish Church (St Mary)

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England. It was designed by John Loughborough Pearson and built in 1857–58.

    3.1 km · church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

    The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England. The centre operates as an independent registered charity within the larger framework of the UNESCO Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, known as the "Jurassic Coast".

    3.7 km · heritage centre in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Morcombelake

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 72 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 186 km
  • Bristol → Morcombelake
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £11–14
  • Cardiff → Morcombelake
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £15–20
  • London → Morcombelake
    208 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £22–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Morcombelake

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 Morcombelake. 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

    109 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    136 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    540 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    559 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    594 km

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