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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

Oborne

Oborne is a village and civil parish in north west Dorset, England, situated just north of the A30 road approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Sherborne, and is close to the border with Somerset.

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The place

Oborne is a village and civil parish in north west Dorset, England, situated just north of the A30 road approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Sherborne, and is close to the border with Somerset. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 101. Oborne shares a grouped parish council, Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of Poyntington, Goathill and Castleton.

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Getting to Oborne

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 49 km · Cardiff (CWL), 76 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 152 km
  • Bristol → Oborne
    55 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–9
  • Cardiff → Oborne
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £14–18
  • London → Oborne
    175 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Oborne

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 Oborne. 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

    89 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    154 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    542 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    550 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    571 km

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Oborne is 55 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.