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West Bexington

West Bexington is a village in south-west Dorset, England, sited just behind the Chesil Beach about 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Bridport.

The place

West Bexington is a village in south-west Dorset, England, sited just behind the Chesil Beach about 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Bridport. It forms part of the civil parish of Puncknowle. The coast here is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Bexington

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
    Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens

    The Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens is a visitor attraction near the village of Abbotsbury, Dorset, southern England. They are Grade I listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

    3 km · botanical garden in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Abbotsbury Castle

    Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in south west Dorset, England, situated on Wears Hill above the village of Abbotsbury, seven miles west of Dorchester and the famous hill fort at Maiden Castle. It is situated on a high chalk hill overlooking the English Channel, and in its day was the front line of defence from invasion.

    1.7 km · Iron Age hill fort in south west Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Catherine's Chapel

    St Catherine's Chapel is a small chapel situated on a hill above the village of Abbotsbury in Dorset, England. It is dedicated to Saint Catherine.

    3.8 km · chapel situated on a hill above the village of Abbotsbury in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Parish Church of Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England church in Swyre, Dorset, England. The oldest part of the church has been dated to the early 15th century, with a partial rebuild and additions later made in the 19th century.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed church in Swyre, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Abbotsbury Swannery

    Watch feeding time and see the cygnets hatching from mid May to late June.

  2. 02
    Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens
  3. 03
    Abbotsbury Abbey and Abbey Barn
  4. 04
    Abbotsbury Castle
  5. 05
    St Catherine's Chapel
  6. 06
    Chesil Beach

From Wikivoyage: West Bexington, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to West Bexington

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 78 km · Cardiff (CWL), 93 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 177 km
  • Bristol → West Bexington
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
  • Cardiff → West Bexington
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £17–22
  • London → West Bexington
    200 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Bexington

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 West Bexington. 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

    95 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    152 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    556 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    569 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    597 km

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Around it

Next door to West Bexington

  • Abbotsburyvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England4 km
  • Puncknowlevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2 km
  • Litton Cheneyvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Swyrevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.9 km