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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

# Shipton Gorge

Shipton Gorge is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Bridport.

The place

Shipton Gorge is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Bridport. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of Shipton Gorge parish is 350. In the 2011 national census, results have been published for the parish of Shipton Gorge combined with the small neighbouring parish of Chilcombe to the east; the population of these areas was 381.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipton_Gorge), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridport)
2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_West_Bay)
3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Bridport)
4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Old_Church,_Bothenhampton)
5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Bothenhampton)
6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridport_Museum)
7. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_George_Inn,_Bridport)

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.

Go there

## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-shipton-gorge) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Shipton+Gorge)
- Cardiff → Shipton Gorge 90 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-shipton-gorge) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Shipton+Gorge)
- London → Shipton Gorge 201 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-shipton-gorge) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Shipton+Gorge)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Shipton%20Gorge)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## 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.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 99 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 146 km
3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 550 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 564 km
5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 598 km

If you know how people move in Shipton Gorge – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cshipton-gorge&title=Shipton+Gorge&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fshipton-gorge), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Shipton Gorge

- [Burton Bradstock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burton-bradstock) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 1.9 km
- [Loders](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/loders) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.8 km
- [Bothenhampton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bothenhampton) village in Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom 2.6 km
- [Askerswell](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/askerswell) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 3.4 km
- [Bradpole](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bradpole) village in Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom 3.4 km
- [West Bay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-bay) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.8 km

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