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Wootton Fitzpaine

Wootton Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England.

Wootton Fitzpaine
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The place

Wootton Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of Lyme Regis in a small side valley of the River Char, close to the Marshwood Vale. The civil parish covers an area of 3,307 acres (1,338 ha) and includes the ecclesiastical parish and small settlement of Monkton Wyld to the west. In the 2011 census the civil parish had 180 dwellings, 134 households and a population of 345.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wootton Fitzpaine

7 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
    Church of St Candida and Holy Cross, Whitchurch Canonicorum

    The Church of St Candida and Holy Cross is an Anglican church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England. A Saxon church stood on the site but nothing remains of that structure.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Marshwood Castle

    Marshwood Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle in Marshwood, Dorset, within the Vale of Marshwood. It was built by William de Mandeville following his elevation to Baron Marshwood in 1205 by King John, and is first recorded as a built castle in 1215.

    3.8 km · castle in Marshwood, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Andrew's Church

    St Andrew's Church is a Church of England church in Monkton Wyld, Dorset, England. It was built in 1848–49 to the designs of Richard Cromwell Carpenter and has been a Grade II* listed building since 1960.

    3.6 km · church in Monkton Wyld, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Parish Church (St Mary)

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England. It was designed by John Loughborough Pearson and built in 1857–58.

    1.4 km · church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Fishpond Church (St John The Baptist)

    St John's Church is a Church of England church in Fishpond Bottom, Dorset, England. It was built in 1852 and has been a Grade II listed building since 1984.

    2.6 km · church in Fishpond, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

    The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England. The centre operates as an independent registered charity within the larger framework of the UNESCO Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, known as the "Jurassic Coast".

    2.8 km · heritage centre in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Coney's Castle

    Coney's Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, England. The name Coney is from the Old English for rabbit, suggesting medieval use as a domestic warren, as at nearby Pilsdon Pen.

    1.7 km · Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wootton Fitzpaine

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 70 km · Cardiff (CWL), 78 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 187 km
  • Bristol → Wootton Fitzpaine
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–14
  • Cardiff → Wootton Fitzpaine
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £15–20
  • London → Wootton Fitzpaine
    211 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £22–29
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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 Wootton Fitzpaine. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    112 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    133 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    537 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    556 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    592 km

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