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# Symondsbury

Symondsbury is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Bridport and 16 miles (26 km) west of Dorchester.

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

## Every way there

- Bristol → Symondsbury 81 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-symondsbury) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Symondsbury)
- Cardiff → Symondsbury 87 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-symondsbury) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Symondsbury)
- London → Symondsbury 205 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-symondsbury) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Symondsbury)

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 Symondsbury, 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 Symondsbury](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/symondsbury)

What Symondsbury has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 72 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- 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. Nearest place with more: Yeovil, 25 km.

50.739°, -2.788°

The A35 road runs through the parish to the south of the village. The village has a pub, a pottery and a primary school. Symondsbury parish extends from Eype and West Cliff in the south, to the Marshwood Vale in the north. The village is in the Dorset National Landscape area. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 1,059.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symondsbury), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: U1097x (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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