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Purse Caundle

Purse Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England.

Purse Caundle
Purse Caundle · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Purse Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Sherborne. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 90.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Purse Caundle

One place 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
    Church of St Nicholas

    The Church of St Nicholas in Henstridge, Somerset, England was built in the 12th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.5 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Purse Caundle

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 149 km
Stations
Church of St John the Evangelist, Milborne Port, 2.2 km · Ven House, 1.8 km · Town Hall, 2.1 km · Henstridge railway station, 4 km
  • Bristol → Purse Caundle
    57 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £7–9
  • Cardiff → Purse Caundle
    78 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £13–17
  • London → Purse Caundle
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Purse Caundle

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 Purse Caundle. 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

    85 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    158 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    544 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    554 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    568 km

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Around it

Next door to Purse Caundle

Purse Caundle is 57 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Milborne Portvillage and civil parish in South Somerset, Somerset, England2.2 km
  • Goathillvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2 km
  • Henstridgevillage in Somerset, England, UK3.5 km
  • Stourton Caundlevillage in Dorset, England, UK3.3 km
  • Haydonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England3.1 km