Sandford Orcas
Sandford Orcas is a village and parish in northwest Dorset, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Sherborne.

Sandford Orcas is a village and parish in northwest Dorset, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Sherborne. In the 2011 census, the parish had a population of 180. Just to the east of the village itself is the hamlet of Holway. The village lies in hilly country on the Dorset/Somerset county border and was part of Somerset until 1896, with the land connected to the Abbot of Glastonbury.
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Worth seeing in and around Sandford Orcas
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.
- 01Church 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.
1.7 km · church in Rimpton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church 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.
3.4 km · church in Marston Magna, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church 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.
2.2 km · church building in Corton Denham, South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sandford Orcas
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 46 km · Cardiff (CWL), 72 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 154 km
- Bristol → Sandford Orcas53 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £7–9
- Cardiff → Sandford Orcas71 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £13–18
- London → Sandford Orcas178 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sandford Orcas
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 Sandford Orcas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Sandford Orcas
Sandford Orcas is 52 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Poyntingtonvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.8 km
- Obornevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Marston Magnavillage in Somerset, England, UK3.6 km
- Corton Denhamvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.1 km
- Rimptonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK1.7 km
- Trentvillage and civil parish in Dorset, UK3.8 km