--- title: "West Lulworth – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "West Lulworth, United Kingdom: West Lulworth is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated on the English Channel beside…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-lulworth" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-lulworth.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Durdle_Door_Overview.jpg/1920px-Durdle_Door_Overview.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Durdle_Door_Overview.jpg/1920px-Durdle_Door_Overview.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) West Lulworth · Saffron Blaze The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lulworth), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Lulworth 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulworth_Castle) 2. Hambury 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambury_Tout) 3. Lulworth 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulworth_Abbey) 4. Former 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Rood_Church,_Coombe_Keynes) 5. Flower'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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower%27s_Barrow) 6. The 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Inn) 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. Go there ## Getting to West Lulworth **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 90 km · Cardiff (CWL), 115 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 156 km\ - Bristol → West Lulworth 94 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-west-lulworth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=West+Lulworth) - Cardiff → West Lulworth 114 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-west-lulworth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=West+Lulworth) - London → West Lulworth 177 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-west-lulworth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=West+Lulworth) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=West%20Lulworth) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for West Lulworth 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Despite 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 in Services 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 next Isle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone. From [Wikivoyage: Weymouth](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Weymouth), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 67 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 181 km 3. 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Around it ## Next door to West Lulworth - [East Lulworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/east-lulworth) hamlet in Dorset, England, UK 3.5 km - [Coombe Keynes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coombe-keynes) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.8 km - [Lulworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lulworth) area of Dorset, England 600 m - [Lulworth Camp](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lulworth-camp) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.3 km [The place page for West Lulworth](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/west-lulworth) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-lulworth, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt