--- title: "Swyre – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Swyre, United Kingdom: Swyre is a small village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated in a valley beside Chesil Beach 6 miles (9.7 km)…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/swyre" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/swyre.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Holy_Trinity_Church_interior%2C_Swyre%2C_2026.jpg/1920px-Holy_Trinity_Church_interior%2C_Swyre%2C_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Swyre Swyre is a small village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated in a valley beside Chesil Beach 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Bridport. ![Swyre](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Holy_Trinity_Church_interior%2C_Swyre%2C_2026.jpg/1920px-Holy_Trinity_Church_interior%2C_Swyre%2C_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Swyre · Ashley Smith The place Swyre is a small village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated in a valley beside Chesil Beach 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Bridport. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 102. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swyre), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbotsbury_Castle) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Swyre) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-swyre) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Swyre) - Cardiff → Swyre 94 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-swyre) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Swyre) - London → Swyre 200 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-swyre) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Swyre) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Swyre) 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 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. 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 96 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 150 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 554 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 567 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 597 km If you know how people move in Swyre – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cswyre&title=Swyre&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fswyre), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Swyre - [Puncknowle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puncknowle) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 900 m - [Litton Cheney](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/litton-cheney) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.2 km - [Chilcombe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chilcombe) hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.8 km - [West Bexington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-bexington) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.9 km [The place page for Swyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/swyre) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/swyre, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt