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Stanton St Gabriel

Stanton St Gabriel is a civil parish in west Dorset, England.

Stanton St Gabriel
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The place

Stanton St Gabriel is a civil parish in west Dorset, England. It lies approximately midway between the towns of Lyme Regis and Bridport on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and includes within its boundary the highest cliff on the south coast of England, Golden Cap. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 110. The population in 1921 was 54.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stanton St Gabriel

5 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
    Golden Cap

    Golden Cap is a hill and cliff situated on the English Channel coast between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England. At 191 metres, it is the highest point within a mile of the south coast of Great Britain from the coastline) and is visible for tens of miles along the coastline.

    700 m · hill and cliff situated on the English Channel coast between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Candida and Holy Cross, Whitchurch Canonicorum

    The Church of St Candida and Holy Cross is an Anglican church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England. A Saxon church stood on the site but nothing remains of that structure.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish Church (St Mary)

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England. It was designed by John Loughborough Pearson and built in 1857–58.

    3.7 km · church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

    The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England. The centre operates as an independent registered charity within the larger framework of the UNESCO Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, known as the "Jurassic Coast".

    3.7 km · heritage centre in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Thorncombe Beacon

    Thorncombe Beacon is a hill between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England. It lies about 1 kilometre west of Eype Mouth and 2 kilometres east of Seatown.

    3.6 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Stanton St Gabriel

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 73 km · Cardiff (CWL), 82 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 186 km
  • Bristol → Stanton St Gabriel
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h · £11–14
  • Cardiff → Stanton St Gabriel
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £15–20
  • London → Stanton St Gabriel
    210 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £22–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stanton St Gabriel

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 Stanton St Gabriel. 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

    109 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    137 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    541 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    560 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    596 km

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