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Civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

# Stanton St Gabriel

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

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Stanton St Gabriel · U1097x

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.

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

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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Cap)
2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Candida_and_Holy_Cross)
3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Catherston_Leweston)
4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmouth_Heritage_Coast_Centre)
5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorncombe_Beacon)

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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-stanton-st-gabriel) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Stanton+St+Gabriel)
- Cardiff → Stanton St Gabriel 86 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-stanton-st-gabriel) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Stanton+St+Gabriel)
- London → Stanton St Gabriel 210 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £22–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-stanton-st-gabriel) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Stanton+St+Gabriel)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Stanton%20St%20Gabriel)

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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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 109 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 137 km
3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 541 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 560 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 596 km

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

Around it

## Next door to Stanton St Gabriel

- [Charmouth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/charmouth) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.6 km
- [Chideock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chideock) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 2.3 km
- [Whitchurch Canonicorum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/whitchurch-canonicorum) village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England 2.4 km
- [Catherston Leweston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/catherston-leweston) village and civil parish in West Dorset, Dorset, England 3.7 km
- [Morcombelake](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/morcombelake) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.7 km
- [Ryall](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ryall) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.5 km

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