Page 113 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - England's South Coast

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Thornbury
Caldicot
Getting Around
Chipping Bath, Bristol, Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester and Weymouth
Sodbury are all served by fast mainline trains from London, with
Avonmouth other major towns linked by regional rail routes, long-distance
Castle
Combe coach services and local buses. However, once visitors leave
Portishead Kingswood the main towns and head into the countryside, a car is the
Nailsea BRISTOL Corsham best way to get around. Dorset is one of the few counties in
Clevedon Box England without a single motorway. It is possible to explore
Keynsham it on foot or by bike along the network of long-distance
cycle routes and footpaths that crisscross the region.
BATH
Congresbury Chew
Magna Marksbury
Weston- Trowbridge
super-Mare CHEDDAR Midsomer Radstock
GORGE Norton Beckington
Axe
Cheddar
Burnham- M e ndi p H ill s
on-Sea Frome
Lynton Lynmouth Selworthy Highbridge Wookey
Porlock Minehead Brue WELLS CATHEDRAL
Parracombe Watchet Huntspill Warminster
Dunkery Dunster Shepton Mallet
Beacon GLASTONBURY Maiden
Arlington 519m Washford Williton Pilton Bradley
EXMOOR Exford BRIDGWATER AND THE SOMERSET Street
LEVELS
NATIONAL PARK Brendon QUANTOCKS Castle East
Exton Hills Quantock Cary Knoyle
Brayford Hills Mere
Bishops Parrett Somerton Wincanton
Lydeard Langport Gillingham Holidaymakers enjoying views of the coastline from
Cranbourne Chase
South Dulverton Wiveliscombe
Molton SOMERSET Templecombe the famous Cobb, the harbour wall at Lyme Regis
TAUNTON Marston SHAFTESBURY
Oakford Bampton Hatch Ilchester Magna
Wellington Beauchamp
Corfe MONTACUTE SHERBORNE Sturminster Fordingbridge Avon Cadnam
HOUSE Yeovil Newton
Culmstock Ilminster DORSET Totton
Shillingstone New Forest
Uffculme Chard Verwood
Crewkerne Nor th Dor set Stour Lyndhurst Hythe
Dunkerswell Yarcombe Winsham Evershot Downs Blandford Forum Ringwood Beaulieu
Axe Axminster Beaminster CERNE ABBAS WIMBORNE Ferndown Brockenhurst
MINSTER
Hurn Lymington
Frampton Puddletown Bere Regis
CHARMOUTH BRIDPORT Poole BOURNEMOUTH
LYME REGIS MAIDEN DORCHESTER Piddle POOLE Poole
JURASSIC CASTLE Frome HARBOUR B ay
The
COAST TOUR Wool ISLE OF Needles
ABBOTSBURY PURBECK
Preston Purbeck Studland Cherbourg,
WEYMOUTH LULWORTH Hills CORFE Channel Islands
Chesil Bank Weymouth CASTLE Swanage
Bay
ISLE OF
PORTLAND
Easton
Isle of
Portland
0 kilometres 10
0 miles 10
West façade of the magnificent Wells Cathedral, built between 1175 and 1490
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