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Yetminster

Yetminster is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset.

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The place

Yetminster is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Sherborne. It is sited on the River Wriggle, a tributary of the River Yeo, and is built almost entirely of honey-coloured limestone, which gives the village an appearance reminiscent of Cotswold villages. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 1,105.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Yetminster

4 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
    St Edwold's Church, Stockwood

    St Edwold's Church in Stockwood, Dorset, England was rebuilt in the 15th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.9 km · church in Stockwood, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints, Closworth

    The Church of All Saints in Closworth, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.1 km · church in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish Church of St Peter

    St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Chetnole, Dorset, and in the Diocese of Salisbury. It is in the Three Valleys Benefice.

    2.7 km · church in Chetnole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Parish Church of St Osmond

    St Osmund's Church is a Church of England parish church at Melbury Osmond, Dorset, England. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    3.6 km · church in Melbury Osmond, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Yetminster

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 55 km · Cardiff (CWL), 77 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 161 km
Stations
Chetnole railway station, 3.2 km · Yetminster railway station, 300 m · Thornford railway station, 1.7 km
  • Bristol → Yetminster
    62 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £8–10
  • Cardiff → Yetminster
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £15–20
  • London → Yetminster
    184 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Yetminster

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 Yetminster. 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

    92 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    150 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    548 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    548 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    580 km

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

Around it

Next door to Yetminster

  • Ryme Intrinsecavillage and civil parish in Dorset, England1.2 km
  • Beer Hackettvillage in Dorset, England, UK1.1 km
  • Bradford Abbasvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Melbury Osmondvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.9 km
  • Leighvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England3.2 km
  • Thornfordvillage and civil parish in Dorset. United Kingdom2.7 km