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Tarrant Rushton

Tarrant Rushton is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England.

Tarrant Rushton
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The place

Tarrant Rushton is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. The village is situated in the Tarrant Valley about three miles east of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the civil parish had an estimated population of 80. Starting in the north east the parish adjoins Moor Crichel, Witchampton, Pamphill, Shapwick, Tarrant Crawford, Tarrant Keynston and Tarrant Rawston. The ancient church of St Mary is built of flint and stone and parts of it date from Norman times. The church accommodates 120 persons and the registers date from 1700.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tarrant Rushton

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
    Badbury Rings

    Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges.

    3.9 km · Iron Age hill fort in east Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary the Virgin, Tarrant Crawford

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.8 km · church in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is a Church of England parish church in Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1852–53, but the tower is 15th-century.

    2.2 km · church in Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Royal Signals Museum

    The Royal Signals Museum is a military museum based at Blandford Camp in the civil parish of Tarrant Monkton, northwest of the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset, England. The museum traces the history of the British Army's battlefield communications experts from the introduction of the telegraph in the Crimean War to the secretive story of cryptography and cyber warfare.

    3 km · regimental museum in Tarrant Monkton, Dorset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tarrant Abbey

    Tarrant Abbey was a Cistercian nunnery in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England.

    3.2 km · abbey in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Tarrant Rushton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 73 km · Cardiff (CWL), 106 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 133 km
  • Bristol → Tarrant Rushton
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £9–12
  • London → Tarrant Rushton
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £16–22
  • Cardiff → Tarrant Rushton
    103 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £15–20
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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 Tarrant Rushton. 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

    58 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    184 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    553 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    563 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    580 km

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