Baker's Arms Holiday Cottages

South Perrott, Dorset

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Places to visit in Dorset, Somerset and Devon

Places to visit within 30-60 minutes drive from our holiday cottages.

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Notes on lists of Places to visit in Dorset, Somerset and Devon

Place	Feature	Map Ref	Postcode	Road miles	Time mins	Dog friendly
Abbotsbury	Swannery	SY 577 845	DT3 4JG	21	34	no
Abbotsbury	Gardens (sub-tropical)	SY 5633 8510	DT3 4LA.	21	34	yes
Abbotstbury	St. Catherine's Chapel. (EH)	SY 5725 852	DT3 4JU	22	36	yes
Abbotstbury	Abbey remains. (EH)	SY 579 851	DT3 4JL	21	34	yes
Abbotstbury Castle	Hill Fort. (SSSI)?	SY 562 862	DT2 852	20	35	yes
Adcombe Wood	Ancient woodland (WT SSSI)	ST 225 174	TA3 7DD	21	35	yes
Aller and Beer	Woods, ancient (SWT, SSSI)	ST 404 305	TA10 0RD	20	42	yes
Aller Hill	Grassland (SSSI)	ST 408 291	TA10 0DD	20	42	yes
Athelhampton	House and gardens	SY 771 943	DT2 7LG	24	39	yes (garden)
Axe estuary	Saltmarsh, mudflats (NR)	SY 255 905	EX12 4AE	28	38
Badbury rings	Hill fort, large, wooded. (NT)	ST 964 030	BH21 4DZ	39	56	yes
Beer (Devon)	Village. Walk to Branscombe	SY 228 888 SY 207 881	EX12 3AJ	25	45	yes
Beer (Devon)	Pecorama pleasure gardens and railway	ST 504 032	DT8 3SG	24	45
Beer (Devon)	Beer Quarry Caves	SY 214 894	EX12 3AR	24	44
Beer (Somerset)	Cider Farm	ST 407 314	TA10 0QX	21	44
Bickham Wood	Nature reserve (SWT)	ST 268 084	TA20 3EB	18	36	yes
Bindon Hill	Hill fort	SY 839 802	BH20 5SA	33	52	yes
Biscombe	Brimley Hill Mire (SWT)	ST 175 131	TA3 7PZ	22	38	yes
Blackbury Camp	Hill Fort. (EH)	SY 187 924	EX24 6JE	25	47	yes
Blandford Forum	Keyneston Mill garden	ST 911 043	DT11 9HZ	38	55	on lead
Blandford Forum	Town			35	51
Bovington	Tank Museum	SY 829 884	BH20 6JG	35	41
Bowleaze Cove	Beach	SY 704 819	DT3 6PW	26	41
Branscombe	Coastal village, walks	SY 207 882 SY 230 892	EX12 3DW	27	47	yes
Bridgwater	Town			29	49
Bulbarrow Hil	Hill fort	ST 777 055	DT11 0ER	25	50	yes
Burrowbridge	Burrow Mump Historic hill. (NT)	ST 359 305	TA7 0RB	20	45	yes
Cadbury Castle	Hill fort	ST 628 253		23	34	yes
Cannington	Walled Gardens	ST 257 395	TA5 2HA	33	56
Castle Cary	Town			25	39
Chickerell	Aldi	DT3 4FL		25	40
Corfe Castle	Village, Swanage railway. Model village	SY 958 814		41	59	yes
Cothay	Manor and gardens	ST 085 213	TA21 OJR	32	58
Crawthorne	Langham Estate Wines Vinyard	SY 774 858	DT2 7NG	26	40
Curry Rivel	Village on ridge South of Somerset levels.	ST 392 254		15	32
Dalwood	Burrow Farm Gardens	SY 243 993	EX13 7ET	31	38	yes
Dumpton Hill	Hill fort	SY177 042		23	40	yes
Dumpton Hill	Nature reserve: The Rough (DoWT)	SY 178 040		23	40	yes
Durdle Door	Natural limestone arch	SY 805 804 [SY 811 804 600m]		32	52
Ferne	Animal Sanctuary	ST 275 075		14	34
Fiddleford	Manor. (EH)	ST 802 136		28	49
Fivehead	Greenshutters Garden Cantre / Nursery	ST 347 232	TA3 6PT	15	36
Folke	Folke Wood (old orchard) (WT)	ST 658 134		19	36	yes
Fortuneswell (Portland)	Town, Lidl			30	50
Gillinghham	Town			35	47
Glastonbury	Town. Aldi			29	50
Glastonbury	Tribunal. (EH)			29	50
Golden Cap	Highest point on South coast (NT)	SY 384 9344		15	32	yes
Hadspen	The Newt garden	ST 659 311		26	41	no
Hawkswood	Wood (DvWT)	SY 200 978 [SY 203 975]		23	43	yes
Hemyock	Lickham Common (DvWT)	ST 128 122		27	49	yes
Hestercombe House	House and Gardens	ST 240 286		25	46	grounds
Hilfield Hill	Open access land	ST 637 040		25	39	yes
Hod Hill	Hill Fort (NT)	ST 855 106		33	56	yes
Holway woods	(DoWT)	ST 63418 20211		18	36	yes
Honiton	Town, Adi, Lidl			24	41
Jordan Hill	Roman Temple. (EH)	SY 699 821		26	40
Kilver Court	Garden, Designer village	BA4 5NF ST 626 436		29	44
Kingsbury Episcopi	Burrow Hill Cider, Brandy etc	S\|T 415 200		22	38
Kingston Lacy	House and gardens (NT)	ST 986 009		40	59
Kingston Maurward	Animal park and gardens	SY 714 910		21	33	gardens
Langport	Town			17	36
Long Sutton	Harry's Cider Co.	ST 462 260	TA10 9NS	20	32
Lulworth	Castle and park	SY 855 822		36	55	yes (park)
Lulworth cove		SY 823 800		33	53	yes
Lyme Regis	Town			17	35
Lyme Regis	Axmouth to Lyme Regis undercliff (SSSI, NNR)	SY 336 920		17	35	yes
Lyme Regis	Dinosaurland Fossil Museum			17	35
Lyme Regis	Marine Aquarium			17	35
Maiden Castle	Hill Fort, largest in Britain. (EH)	SY 672 884		21	36	yes
Meare	Monastic fishery building. (EH)	ST 459 417		29	48
Milton Abbas	Village (historical)	ST 805 018		30	46
Moreton	Walled Gardens. Tea room	SY 805 893		28	43	yes
Moreton	River Frome. Ford. Long bridge.	SY 805 893		28	43	yes
Muchelney	Abbey & NT Priest's House. (EH)	ST 428 247		15	32
Nightingale Farm	Wood	ST 451 050		23	38	yes
North Perrott	The Manor Arms (on foot)	ST 475 094		2	40
North Petherton	Town			26	45
Nunney	Castle. (EH)	ST 737 468		37	56	yes
Offwell	Woods, lake, open access (FC)	SY180 994		24	39	yes
Osmington Mills	Coastal village. Pub, Rock pools, clifftop walks	SY 735 817		28	44	yes
Otterhead Lakes	Nature reserve, old disused garden	ST 224 141 TA3 7EE		19	36	yes
Ottery St Mary	Town, walk to Tipton St John	SY 0940 9515 SY 0920 9176		32	53	yes
Pallington	Sculpture park and walks	SY 786 913		24	41
Poole	Town			42	59
Portesham	Vinyard	SY 625 857	DT3 4ER	21	38
Portland	Castle. (EH)	SY 683 743		29	51
Portland	DoWT. Tout Quarries Sculpture park	SY 68443 72446		31	54	yes
Portland	Portland Museum			31	54
Portland (Fortuneswell)	Town, Lidl			30	50
Prior's Park & Adcombe Wood	Public access. (SSSI)	ST 225 170		23	40	yes
Puddletown Forest	Woodland (pine & mixed), heathland (FC)	SY 74439 92534		22	37	yes
Ringstead	Seaside village, shore (NT)	SY 753 814		28	45	yes
Seaton	Tramway	SY 253 294		23	41	Yes (£1)
Seatown	Coastal village, beach, Golden Cap, walks, pub	SY 420 917		14	31	(officially) no
Shepton Mallet	Chaplin and Cork's Cider	BA4 5ND		29	45
Sherborne	Town			15	34
Sherborne	Castle and gardens (NT) Vinyard	ST 651 163		17	33	yes
Sherborne	Old Castle. (EH)	ST 648 168		17	34	yes
Sherborne	Museum			17	34
Shipton Gorge and Hill	4½ mile walk - Shipton Hill	SY 498 915		14	31
Shute	Lyme Bay Winery	SY 249 964		19	38
Shute Barton	House (NT)	SY 252 974		21	35
Sidbury	Sand House and Garden	SY 146 925		34	53
Sidmouth	Town			30	56
Sidmouth	Donkey sanctuary	SY160 891		27	47
Smeatharpe	Southey and Gotley Moors open access (SSSI)	ST 192 110		24	41
Somerton	Town			20	31
Staple Hill	Ruttersleigh woodland (SSSI)	ST 250 165		19	32
Stonebarrow Hill	Cliff top walk (NT)	SY 381 933		18	35	yes
Stourhead	House and Gardens (NT)	ST 777 344		35	45	yes (informal areas)
Street	Hecks Cider	ST 483 260		24	39
Swell Wood	RSPB Nature reserve	ST 363 236		17	35
Taunton	Town, Aldi			23	42
Thorncombe Woods	Nature Reserve, Hardy's cottage, Woods	SY726922		21	35
Throop	Ford and long bridge on River Piddle	SY 827932		29	45	yes
Tipton St John	Walk by river Otter. Scenic drive through Blackdown Hills and East Devon	SY 0872 9210 SY 0940 9515		36	56	yes
Tiverton	Town			43	57
Wareham	Town			36	50
Wellington	Town			29	47
Wells	Town			33	58	yes
Wells	The Bishops Palace	ST 553 458	BA5 2PD	33	58	yes
Weymouth	Town Aldi, Sainsbury's, Morrisons			27	40
Weymouth	Beach	SY 648 797		25	39	designated area
Weymouth	Bennett's Water Garden.	SY 648 797		25	39	no
Weymouth	Radipole Lake RSPB reserve	SY 675 804		26	41	on lead. Pick up
Weymouth	Tudor House Museum			26	41
Wimborne	Town, model village			41	59
Wookey Hole	Caves	ST 543 473		34	58
Wookey Hole	Ebbor Gorge (SSSI, NNR)	ST 531 476		35	59
Abbotsbury	Swannery	SY 577 845	DT3 4JG	21	34	no
Abbotsbury	Gardens (sub-tropical)	SY 5633 8510	DT3 4LA.	21	34	yes
Abbotstbury	St. Catherine's Chapel. (EH)	SY 5725 852	DT3 4JU	22	36	yes
Abbotstbury	Abbey remains. (EH)	SY 579 851	DT3 4JL	21	34	yes
Abbotstbury Castle	Hill Fort. (SSSI)?	SY 562 862	DT2 852	20	35	yes
Adcombe Wood	Ancient woodland (WT SSSI)	ST 225 174	TA3 7DD	21	35	yes
Aller and Beer	Woods, ancient (SWT, SSSI)	ST 404 305	TA10 0RD	20	42	yes
Aller Hill	Grassland (SSSI)	ST 408 291	TA10 0DD	20	42	yes
Athelhampton	House and gardens	SY 771 943	DT2 7LG	24	39	yes (garden)
Axe estuary	Saltmarsh, mudflats (NR)	SY 255 905	EX12 4AE	28	38
Badbury rings	Hill fort, large, wooded. (NT)	ST 964 030	BH21 4DZ	39	56	yes
Beer (Devon)	Village. Walk to Branscombe	SY 228 888 SY 207 881	EX12 3AJ	25	45	yes
Beer (Devon)	Pecorama pleasure gardens and railway	ST 504 032	DT8 3SG	24	45
Beer (Devon)	Beer Quarry Caves	SY 214 894	EX12 3AR	24	44
Beer (Somerset)	Cider Farm	ST 407 314	TA10 0QX	21	44
Bickham Wood	Nature reserve (SWT)	ST 268 084	TA20 3EB	18	36	yes
Bindon Hill	Hill fort	SY 839 802	BH20 5SA	33	52	yes
Biscombe	Brimley Hill Mire (SWT)	ST 175 131	TA3 7PZ	22	38	yes
Blackbury Camp	Hill Fort. (EH)	SY 187 924	EX24 6JE	25	47	yes
Blandford Forum	Keyneston Mill garden	ST 911 043	DT11 9HZ	38	55	on lead
Blandford Forum	Town			35	51
Bovington	Tank Museum	SY 829 884	BH20 6JG	35	41
Bowleaze Cove	Beach	SY 704 819	DT3 6PW	26	41
Branscombe	Coastal village, walks	SY 207 882 SY 230 892	EX12 3DW	27	47	yes
Bridgwater	Town			29	49
Bulbarrow Hil	Hill fort	ST 777 055	DT11 0ER	25	50	yes
Burrowbridge	Burrow Mump Historic hill. (NT)	ST 359 305	TA7 0RB	20	45	yes
Cadbury Castle	Hill fort	ST 628 253		23	34	yes
Cannington	Walled Gardens	ST 257 395	TA5 2HA	33	56
Castle Cary	Town			25	39
Chickerell	Aldi	DT3 4FL		25	40
Corfe Castle	Village, Swanage railway. Model village	SY 958 814		41	59	yes
Cothay	Manor and gardens	ST 085 213	TA21 OJR	32	58
Crawthorne	Langham Estate Wines Vinyard	SY 774 858	DT2 7NG	26	40
Curry Rivel	Village on ridge South of Somerset levels.	ST 392 254		15	32
Dalwood	Burrow Farm Gardens	SY 243 993	EX13 7ET	31	38	yes
Dumpton Hill	Hill fort	SY177 042		23	40	yes
Dumpton Hill	Nature reserve: The Rough (DoWT)	SY 178 040		23	40	yes
Durdle Door	Natural limestone arch	SY 805 804 [SY 811 804 600m]		32	52
Ferne	Animal Sanctuary	ST 275 075		14	34
Fiddleford	Manor. (EH)	ST 802 136		28	49
Fivehead	Greenshutters Garden Cantre / Nursery	ST 347 232	TA3 6PT	15	36
Folke	Folke Wood (old orchard) (WT)	ST 658 134		19	36	yes
Fortuneswell (Portland)	Town, Lidl			30	50
Gillinghham	Town			35	47
Glastonbury	Town. Aldi			29	50
Glastonbury	Tribunal. (EH)			29	50
Golden Cap	Highest point on South coast (NT)	SY 384 9344		15	32	yes
Hadspen	The Newt garden	ST 659 311		26	41	no
Hawkswood	Wood (DvWT)	SY 200 978 [SY 203 975]		23	43	yes
Hemyock	Lickham Common (DvWT)	ST 128 122		27	49	yes
Hestercombe House	House and Gardens	ST 240 286		25	46	grounds
Hilfield Hill	Open access land	ST 637 040		25	39	yes
Hod Hill	Hill Fort (NT)	ST 855 106		33	56	yes
Holway woods	(DoWT)	ST 63418 20211		18	36	yes
Honiton	Town, Adi, Lidl			24	41
Jordan Hill	Roman Temple. (EH)	SY 699 821		26	40
Kilver Court	Garden, Designer village	BA4 5NF ST 626 436		29	44
Kingsbury Episcopi	Burrow Hill Cider, Brandy etc	S\|T 415 200		22	38
Kingston Lacy	House and gardens (NT)	ST 986 009		40	59
Kingston Maurward	Animal park and gardens	SY 714 910		21	33	gardens
Langport	Town			17	36
Long Sutton	Harry's Cider Co.	ST 462 260	TA10 9NS	20	32
Lulworth	Castle and park	SY 855 822		36	55	yes (park)
Lulworth cove		SY 823 800		33	53	yes
Lyme Regis	Town			17	35
Lyme Regis	Axmouth to Lyme Regis undercliff (SSSI, NNR)	SY 336 920		17	35	yes
Lyme Regis	Dinosaurland Fossil Museum			17	35
Lyme Regis	Marine Aquarium			17	35
Maiden Castle	Hill Fort, largest in Britain. (EH)	SY 672 884		21	36	yes
Meare	Monastic fishery building. (EH)	ST 459 417		29	48
Milton Abbas	Village (historical)	ST 805 018		30	46
Moreton	Walled Gardens. Tea room	SY 805 893		28	43	yes
Moreton	River Frome. Ford. Long bridge.	SY 805 893		28	43	yes
Muchelney	Abbey & NT Priest's House. (EH)	ST 428 247		15	32
Nightingale Farm	Wood	ST 451 050		23	38	yes
North Perrott	The Manor Arms (on foot)	ST 475 094		2	40
North Petherton	Town			26	45
Nunney	Castle. (EH)	ST 737 468		37	56	yes
Offwell	Woods, lake, open access (FC)	SY180 994		24	39	yes
Osmington Mills	Coastal village. Pub, Rock pools, clifftop walks	SY 735 817		28	44	yes
Otterhead Lakes	Nature reserve, old disused garden	ST 224 141 TA3 7EE		19	36	yes
Ottery St Mary	Town, walk to Tipton St John	SY 0940 9515 SY 0920 9176		32	53	yes
Pallington	Sculpture park and walks	SY 786 913		24	41
Poole	Town			42	59
Portesham	Vinyard	SY 625 857	DT3 4ER	21	38
Portland	Castle. (EH)	SY 683 743		29	51
Portland	DoWT. Tout Quarries Sculpture park	SY 68443 72446		31	54	yes
Portland	Portland Museum			31	54
Portland (Fortuneswell)	Town, Lidl			30	50
Prior's Park & Adcombe Wood	Public access. (SSSI)	ST 225 170		23	40	yes
Puddletown Forest	Woodland (pine & mixed), heathland (FC)	SY 74439 92534		22	37	yes
Ringstead	Seaside village, shore (NT)	SY 753 814		28	45	yes
Seaton	Tramway	SY 253 294		23	41	Yes (£1)
Seatown	Coastal village, beach, Golden Cap, walks, pub	SY 420 917		14	31	(officially) no
Shepton Mallet	Chaplin and Cork's Cider	BA4 5ND		29	45
Sherborne	Town			15	34
Sherborne	Castle and gardens (NT) Vinyard	ST 651 163		17	33	yes
Sherborne	Old Castle. (EH)	ST 648 168		17	34	yes
Sherborne	Museum			17	34
Shipton Gorge and Hill	4½ mile walk - Shipton Hill	SY 498 915		14	31
Shute	Lyme Bay Winery	SY 249 964		19	38
Shute Barton	House (NT)	SY 252 974		21	35
Sidbury	Sand House and Garden	SY 146 925		34	53
Sidmouth	Town			30	56
Sidmouth	Donkey sanctuary	SY160 891		27	47
Smeatharpe	Southey and Gotley Moors open access (SSSI)	ST 192 110		24	41
Somerton	Town			20	31
Staple Hill	Ruttersleigh woodland (SSSI)	ST 250 165		19	32
Stonebarrow Hill	Cliff top walk (NT)	SY 381 933		18	35	yes
Stourhead	House and Gardens (NT)	ST 777 344		35	45	yes (informal areas)
Street	Hecks Cider	ST 483 260		24	39
Swell Wood	RSPB Nature reserve	ST 363 236		17	35
Taunton	Town, Aldi			23	42
Thorncombe Woods	Nature Reserve, Hardy's cottage, Woods	SY726922		21	35
Throop	Ford and long bridge on River Piddle	SY 827932		29	45	yes
Tipton St John	Walk by river Otter. Scenic drive through Blackdown Hills and East Devon	SY 0872 9210 SY 0940 9515		36	56	yes
Tiverton	Town			43	57
Wareham	Town			36	50
Wellington	Town			29	47
Wells	Town			33	58	yes
Wells	The Bishops Palace	ST 553 458	BA5 2PD	33	58	yes
Weymouth	Town Aldi, Sainsbury's, Morrisons			27	40
Weymouth	Beach	SY 648 797		25	39	designated area
Weymouth	Bennett's Water Garden.	SY 648 797		25	39	no
Weymouth	Radipole Lake RSPB reserve	SY 675 804		26	41	on lead. Pick up
Weymouth	Tudor House Museum			26	41
Wimborne	Town, model village			41	59
Wookey Hole	Caves	ST 543 473		34	58
Wookey Hole	Ebbor Gorge (SSSI, NNR)	ST 531 476		35	59

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