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West Chelborough

West Chelborough is a village and civil parish 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Dorchester, in the Dorset district, in the county of Dorset, England.

The place

West Chelborough is a village and civil parish 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Dorchester, in the Dorset district, in the county of Dorset, England. In 2001, the parish had a population of 42. The parish touches Corscombe and East Chelborough.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Chelborough

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
    Melbury House

    Melbury House is an English country house in the parish of Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset. The Grade I listed mansion is the home of the Honourable Charlotte Townshend, a major landowner in east Dorset, through her mother, Theresa Fox-Strangways, daughter and heiress of Harry Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed house in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pugin Hall

    Pugin Hall is a private house, designed as a rectory by Augustus Pugin and built in 1846–1847 in Rampisham, Dorset, England. The house is a Grade I listed building, the top category, 'of highest significance'.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed building in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to West Chelborough

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 60 km · Cardiff (CWL), 78 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 168 km
  • Bristol → West Chelborough
    68 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £9–11
  • Cardiff → West Chelborough
    80 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £15–20
  • London → West Chelborough
    191 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · £21–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Chelborough

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 Chelborough. 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

    96 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    146 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    546 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    551 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    587 km

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

Around it

Next door to West Chelborough

  • Corscombevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Halstockvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Evershotvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.4 km
  • Melbury Osmondvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km
  • Melbury Sampfordvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km
  • East Chelboroughvillage in Dorset, England, UK1.1 km