West Orchard
West Orchard is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.
West Orchard is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale in the Dorset administrative district, approximately halfway between the towns of Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton. It is separated from the adjacent settlement of East Orchard by a stream. In 2013 the civil parish had an estimated population of 50. For local government purposes the parish is grouped with the parishes of East Orchard and Margaret Marsh, to form a Group Parish Council.
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Worth seeing in and around West Orchard
3 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.
- 01Church of St Thomas
St Thomas's Church is a Grade II listed building in East Orchard, Dorset. The church dates from 1859.
1.7 km · church in East Orchard, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of Unknown Dedication
St Luke's Church is a Church of England church in West Orchard, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1876–77 to the designs of Thomas Henry Wyatt, but the chancel is 15th-century.
100 m · church building in West Orchard, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Fiddleford Manor
Fiddleford Manor is a medieval manor house located near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. It is thought to have been originally built around 1370 for William Latimer, the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, after the manor passed to him in 1355.
3.7 km · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia
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Getting to West Orchard
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 58 km · Cardiff (CWL), 91 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 138 km
- Bristol → West Orchard61 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £7–10
- Cardiff → West Orchard88 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £13–18
- London → West Orchard161 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £17–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for West Orchard
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 Orchard. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
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