Shipton Gorge

Worth seeing in and around Shipton Gorge

7 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
   Bridport

   Bridport is a market town and civil parish in Dorset, England, 1+1⁄2 miles inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Its origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre.

   4 km · market town in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   St John's Church, West Bay

   St John's Church is a Church of England church in West Bay, Dorset, England. It was built in 1935–39 to the designs of William Henry Randoll Blacking and has been a Grade II listed building since 1975.

   3.5 km · church building in Bridport, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Parish Church of St Mary

   St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

   3.3 km · church in Bridport, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Holy Trinity Old Church, Bothenhampton

   Holy Trinity Old Church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England was built in the 13th or 14th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   2.2 km · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Holy Trinity Church, Bothenhampton

   Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church at Bothenhampton, near Bridport in Dorset, England. It was designed and built by the English arts and crafts architect Edward Schroeder Prior in 1887–89.

   2.7 km · church in Bothenhampton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Bridport Museum

   Bridport Museum is a museum in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is housed within an early 16th-century building known as the Castle, located on South Street.

   3.4 km · museum in Bridport, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
7. 07
   9, East Street

   The George Inn is a historic building in the town of Bridport, Dorset, England.

   3.4 km · building in West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shipton Gorge

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 74 km · Cardiff (CWL), 87 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 178 km

Stations

Bridport West Bay railway station, 3.4 km · Bridport railway station, 3 km · Bridport East Street railway station, 2.9 km

• Bristol → Shipton Gorge

  82 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £10–13
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• Cardiff → Shipton Gorge

  90 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £16–21
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• London → Shipton Gorge

  201 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £21–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shipton Gorge

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 Shipton Gorge. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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