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 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.
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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.
- 01Parish 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 - 02Yeovil 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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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 → Thornford60 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £8–10
- Cardiff → Thornford76 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £14–19
- London → Thornford10 km · quickest by road, 50 min · £1–1.5
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Thornford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Thornford
Thornford is 60 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Yetminstervillage in Dorset, England, UK2.6 km
- Beer Hackettvillage in Dorset, England, UK1.5 km
- Bradford Abbasvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.1 km
- Ryme Intrinsecavillage and civil parish in Dorset, England3.3 km
- Over Comptonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.7 km
- Clifton Maybankvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.7 km