Sydling St Nicholas
Sydling St Nicholas is a village and civil parish in Dorset within southwest England.
Sydling St Nicholas is a village and civil parish in Dorset within southwest England. The parish is 5 to 9 miles northwest of the county town Dorchester and covers most of the valley of the small Sydling Water in the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. The parish has an area of 2,075 hectares and includes the hamlet of Up Sydling in the north.
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Worth seeing in and around Sydling St Nicholas
3 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.
- 01All Saints Church, Nether Cerne
All Saints Church in Nether Cerne, Dorset, England was built in the late 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
4 km · church in Nether Cerne, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Francis
St Francis' Church is a Church of England church in Frome Vauchurch, Dorset, England. It has 12th-century origins, with a major rebuild in the 17th-century and restoration work in the 19th century.
3.9 km · church in Frome Vauchurch, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church at Godmanstone, Dorset, England. The church has 12th century origins and is a Grade I listed building.
4 km · church in Godmanstone, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sydling St Nicholas
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 67 km · Cardiff (CWL), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 163 km
- Stations
- Maiden Newton railway station, 3.5 km
- Bristol → Sydling St Nicholas73 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £9–11
- Cardiff → Sydling St Nicholas88 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £16–21
- London → Sydling St Nicholas185 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £20–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sydling St Nicholas
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 Sydling St Nicholas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
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Next door to Sydling St Nicholas
- Cerne Abbasvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Maiden Newtonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK4 km
- Nether Cernehamlet and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom4 km
- Frome Vauchurchvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.9 km
- Up Sydlinghamlet in Dorset, England, UK2.1 km