Thorncombe

Worth seeing in and around Thorncombe

4 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
   Forde Abbey

   Forde Abbey is a privately owned former Cistercian monastery in Dorset, England. The house and gardens are run as a tourist attraction while the 1,600-acre estate is farmed to provide additional revenue.

   2.6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Payne's Down

   Payne's Down is a prominent hill, 211 metres high, some 10 kilometres east-northeast of Axminster and 1 kilometre northwest of Birdsmoorgate, in the county of Dorset in southern England. Its prominence of 62 metres means it is listed as one of the Tumps.

   2.1 km · 211m high hill in Thorncombe, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Church of St Stephen, Winsham

   The Anglican Church of St Stephen in Winsham, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

   3 km · Grade II* listed church in Winsham, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Mary's Church

   St Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Marshwood, Dorset, England. The earliest part of the church is the tower, which dates to 1840, while the rest of the building dates to a rebuild of 1883–84.

   3.7 km · church in Marshwood, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Thorncombe

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Cardiff (CWL), 71 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 184 km

Stations

Chard Junction railway station, 3.9 km

• Bristol → Thorncombe

  64 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £8–10
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• Cardiff → Thorncombe

  44 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–17
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• London → Thorncombe

  49 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £5–7
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No local-transport research exists yet for Thorncombe

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

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