West Lulworth
West Lulworth is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated on the English Channel beside Lulworth Cove.
West Lulworth is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated on the English Channel beside Lulworth Cove. In the 2011 census the civil parish—which includes most of Lulworth Camp army base—had 291 households and a population of 714. The village is a gateway to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site and is a popular tourist destination, especially for day trips.
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Worth seeing in and around West Lulworth
6 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.
- 01Lulworth Castle
Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, England, situated south of the village of Wool, is an early 17th-century hunting lodge erected in the style of a revival fortified castle, one of only five extant Elizabethan or Jacobean buildings of this type. It is listed with Historic England as a scheduled monument.
3.1 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Hambury Tout
Hambury Tout is a large chalk hill by the coast near Lulworth, Dorset, England. The hill overlooks Lulworth Cove to the west.
1.1 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Lulworth Abbey
Lulworth Abbey was a Trappist monastery at East Lulworth in Dorset, England, established as a priory in 1796 by Thomas Weld for refugee French Trappist monks moving on from temporary shelter in the abandoned La Valsainte Charterhouse in Switzerland. The monastery at Lulworth was raised to the status of an abbey in 1813 by Pope Pius VII. In 1817 it was abandoned, as the monks were able to return to France, to the newly-re-established Melleray Abbey near Nantes.
1 km · trappist monastery in Dorset, England · Wikipedia - 04Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant)
Holy Rood Church is a former Church of England church in Coombe Keynes, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1860–61, but the tower and chancel arch is 13th-century.
3.8 km · church building in Coombe Keynes, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Flower's Barrow
Flower's Barrow is an Iron Age hillfort, built over 2,500 years ago on Rings Hill, above Worbarrow Bay in Dorset on the south coast of England. It is located about 11 miles west of Swanage and about 6.25 miles southwest of Wareham.
3.9 km · Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06The Castle Inn
The Castle Inn is a public house in West Lulworth, Dorset, England, which dates from the 16th century. It was originally called The Green Man, and later The Jolly Sailor.
100 m · public house in West Lulworth, Dorset, England, which dates from the 16th century · Wikipedia
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Getting to West Lulworth
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 90 km · Cardiff (CWL), 115 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 156 km
- Bristol → West Lulworth94 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–15
- Cardiff → West Lulworth114 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £19–25
- London → West Lulworth177 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–25
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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 Lulworth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDespite its history as a cross-Channel ferry port, these days the furthest you can get on a passenger vessel from Weymouth is Portland; ships from the Channel Islands and France dock at Poole.
- Get inServices to Poole from the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, as well as Cherbourg in Normandy and Saint-Malo in Brittany by fast or traditional ferry are provided by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
- Go nextIsle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone.
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Next door to West Lulworth
- East Lulworthhamlet in Dorset, England, UK3.5 km
- Coombe Keynesvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.8 km
- Lulwortharea of Dorset, England600 m
- Lulworth Campvillage in Dorset, England, UK1.3 km