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![Charmouth](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Golden_Cap_from_Charmouth_Beach.jpg/1920px-Golden_Cap_from_Charmouth_Beach.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

# Charmouth

Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Charmouth 82 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-charmouth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Charmouth)
- Cardiff → Charmouth 85 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-charmouth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Charmouth)
- London → Charmouth 212 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-charmouth) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Charmouth)

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

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What Charmouth has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 73 km
- F Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
- Y Ferries ferry terminal, 25 km; sailings estimated
- 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. Nearest place with more: Yeovil, 30 km.

50.737°, -2.903°

The village is situated on the mouth of the River Char, around 1.5 miles (2 km) north-east of Lyme Regis. Dorset County Council estimated that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,310. In the 2011 census the population of the parish, combined with the small parish of Catherston Leweston to the north, was 1,352.

Get in

## Getting to Charmouth

The nearest train station is Axminster, which is on the route from London Waterloo to Exeter. There is also a good bus service (X53) along the Jurassic Coast.

See

## Worth seeing

1. Golden Cap Golden Cap Estate, Morcombelake, Bridport, Dorset (See website for directions), goldencap@nationaltrust.org.uk.
2. Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre Small free museum containing many impressive fossil specimens found locally, along with educational videos, exhibits and events relating to local geology and fossil-hunting.

Do

## Things to do

Fossil hunting. in front of the cliffs by the beach. There are lots of fossilised ammonites in the sediment layers in the cliffs, and as weathering occurs, the cliffs are eroded and the fossils are left on the beach. The best time to go hunting is in Spring, when the winter's storms have exposed many fossils.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmouth) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Charmouth), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Partonez (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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