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Rimpton

Rimpton is a village and civil parish 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Sherborne, and 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Yeovil on a tributary of the River Parret in the county of Somerset, England.

Rimpton
Rimpton · Edward Francis Burney
The place

Rimpton is a village and civil parish 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Sherborne, and 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Yeovil on a tributary of the River Parret in the county of Somerset, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rimpton

10 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
    Church of St Mary, Marston Magna

    The Church of St Mary in Marston Magna, Somerset, England can date its origins to before the Norman Conquest, however the present building largely dates from around 1360, with further rebuilding in the 15th century. It has been designated as a grade I listed building.

    1.7 km · church in Marston Magna, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Barnabas, Queen Camel

    The Church of St Barnabas is a church in Queen Camel, Somerset, England. The church was built in the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    3.4 km · church in Queen Camel, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Holy Trinity

    The Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity at Sutton Montis in the parish of South Cadbury and Sutton Montis, Somerset, England, has Saxon origins but most of the surviving building is from the 12th century and subsequent periods. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · church in Sutton Montis, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints, West Camel

    The Church of All Saints in West Camel, Somerset, England, dates from the late 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. There had been a previous wooden church on the site since 995 until around 1100 when it was replaced by a small stone Norman church, which was added to over subsequent centuries.

    3.9 km · church in West Camel, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary, Rimpton

    The Church of St Mary in Rimpton, Somerset, England was built in the early 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The exact date of the building of the church is uncertain.

    100 m · church in Rimpton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Church of Saint James, Chilton Cantelo

    The Anglican Church of St James in Chilton Cantelo, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.9 km · church building in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    4 km · church in Mudford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Mary Magdalene

    The Anglican Church of St Mary Magdalene in Sparkford, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.8 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of the Holy Cross

    The Anglican Church of the Holy Cross in Weston Bampfylde, Sparkford, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.1 km · church in Weston Bampfylde, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church in Corton Denham, Somerset, England. It was built in 1869–70 to replace an earlier church of 13th-century origin.

    2.8 km · church building in Corton Denham, South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Rimpton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 45 km · Cardiff (CWL), 71 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 155 km
  • Bristol → Rimpton
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £7–9
  • Cardiff → Rimpton
    69 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £13–18
  • London → Rimpton
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rimpton

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 Rimpton. 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

    538 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    544 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    573 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rimpton

Rimpton is 51 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.