Swyre

Worth seeing in and around Swyre

2 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
   Abbotsbury Castle

   Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in south west Dorset, England, situated on Wears Hill above the village of Abbotsbury, seven miles west of Dorchester and the famous hill fort at Maiden Castle. It is situated on a high chalk hill overlooking the English Channel, and in its day was the front line of defence from invasion.

   3.3 km · Iron Age hill fort in south west Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Parish Church of Holy Trinity

   Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England church in Swyre, Dorset, England. The oldest part of the church has been dated to the early 15th century, with a partial rebuild and additions later made in the 19th century.

   0 m · Grade I listed church in Swyre, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Swyre

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 77 km · Cardiff (CWL), 91 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 177 km

• Bristol → Swyre

  85 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–14
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• Cardiff → Swyre

  94 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £16–22
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• London → Swyre

  200 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £21–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Swyre

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

If you know how people move in Swyre – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.