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Nether Compton

Nether Compton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Sherborne and 3 miles east of Yeovil in Somerset.

Nether Compton
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The place

Nether Compton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Sherborne and 3 miles east of Yeovil in Somerset. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 328.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nether Compton

3 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
    Newton Surmaville

    Newton Surmaville is a 15,129-square-foot stately home with gardens and a park south of Yeovil, Somerset in the district of South Somerset, in England. It lies just outside the town in the parish of Barwick.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed country house in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parish Church of St Michael

    St Michael's Church is a Church of England church in Over Compton, Dorset, England. The church dates to the 15th-century, with later additions and restorations.

    500 m · Grade I listed church in Over Compton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Church, Mudford

    The Church of St Mary in Mudford, Somerset, England, dates from the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church was granted by Montacute Priory to the Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1339.

    3.4 km · church in Mudford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Nether Compton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 49 km · Cardiff (CWL), 73 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 158 km
Stations
Yeovil Pen Mill railway station, 3 km · Yeovil Town railway station, 3.9 km
  • Bristol → Nether Compton
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £7–10
  • Cardiff → Nether Compton
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £14–18
  • London → Nether Compton
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nether Compton

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 Nether Compton. 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

    94 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    149 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    541 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    545 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    576 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nether Compton

Nether Compton is 56 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sherbornetown and civil parish in Dorset, England4 km
  • Bradford Abbasvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Over Comptonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom900 m
  • Trentvillage and civil parish in Dorset, UK1.1 km
  • Mudfordvillage in Somerset, England, UK3.1 km
  • Adbervillage in Dorset, United Kingdom2.9 km