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Thornford

Thornford is a village and civil parish in north-west Dorset, England, situated in the Yeo valley 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Sherborne.

Thornford
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The place

Thornford is a village and civil parish in north-west Dorset, England, situated in the Yeo valley 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Sherborne. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of the parish is 830.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thornford

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
    Parish Church of St Michael

    St Michael's Church is a Church of England church in Over Compton, Dorset, England. The church dates to the 15th-century, with later additions and restorations.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed church in Over Compton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Yeovil Railway Centre

    The Yeovil Railway Centre is a small railway museum at Yeovil Junction on the L&SWR West of England Main Line between Salisbury and Exeter in the U.K. It was created in 1993, in response to British Rail's decision to remove the turntable from Yeovil Junction. Approximately 1⁄4 mile of track along the Clifton Maybank spur is used for demonstration trains.

    3.6 km · railway museum in Stoford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Thornford

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Cardiff (CWL), 76 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 159 km
Stations
Yeovil Junction railway station, 3.6 km · Thornford railway station, 1.3 km · Yetminster railway station, 2.4 km
  • Bristol → Thornford
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £8–10
  • Cardiff → Thornford
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £14–19
  • London → Thornford
    10 km · quickest by road, 50 min · £1–1.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Thornford

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 Thornford. 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

    92 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    150 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    546 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    548 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    578 km

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

Around it

Next door to Thornford

Thornford is 60 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.