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# Beaminster

Beaminster is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester.

[Plan a trip to Beaminster](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Beaminster) [From Bristol](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Beaminster)

## Every way there

- Bristol → Beaminster 73 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-beaminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Beaminster)
- Cardiff → Beaminster 81 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-beaminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Beaminster)
- London → Beaminster 198 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-beaminster) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Beaminster)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Beaminster, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Beaminster](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/beaminster)

What Beaminster has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 64 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

50.809°, -2.739°

It is sited in a bowl-shaped valley near the source of the small River Brit. The population of Beaminster parish was recorded as 3,177 in the 2021 census.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaminster), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Elliott Brown (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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