Bincombe
Bincombe is a small village, or hamlet, and civil parish in Dorset, England, 5 miles north of Weymouth. The village is 1 mile from Upwey railway station and 28 miles from Bournemouth International Airport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 520 residents
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Bincombe, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Trinity Church, Bincombe and Chalbury Hillfort.
Holy Trinity Church, Bincombe
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church located in Bincombe, Dorset, England. The church dates back to the late 12th century, with subsequent additions and a restoration in 1865. It is a Grade I listed building.
Chalbury Hillfort
Heath
Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chalbury Hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort roughly 1 mile south-east of the village of Bincombe, in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument.
Upwey railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Upwey railway station serves the Broadwey, Upwey and Littlemoor suburbs of Weymouth in Dorset, England. The station is situated on the South West Main Line, 140 miles 31 chains from London Waterloo and on the Heart of Wessex Line, 166 miles 30 chains from London Paddington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Littlemoor and Upwey.
Littlemoor
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Littlemoor is a suburb of Weymouth in Dorset, England. Littlemoor is about 2 miles to the north of the town centre. The nearest railway station is Upwey 0.5 miles to the west.
Upwey
Village
Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upwey is a suburb of Weymouth in south Dorset, England. The suburb is situated on the B3159 road in the Wey valley. The area was formerly a village until it was absorbed into the Weymouth built-up area.
Broadwey
Suburb
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broadwey was a former village in the northern suburbs of Weymouth, Dorset, England. It lies on the B3159 road. In 2001, Broadwey and Upwey ward had a population of 4,349. St Nicholas' Church serves the suburb, as did Broadwey Methodist Church until 2021.
Bincombe
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Bincombe, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.66017° or 50° 39′ 37″ northLongitude
-2.44622° or 2° 26′ 46″ westPopulation
520Elevation
479 feet (146 metres)Open location code
9C2VMH63+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 3003773918OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2655648Wikidata ID
Q2625354
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Bincombe” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bicombe”
- Cebuano: “Bincombe”
- Chinese: “Bincombe”
- Dutch: “Bincombe”
- French: “Bincombe”
- Irish: “Bincombe”
- Ladin: “Bincombe”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bincombe”
- Polish: “Bincombe”
- Swedish: “Bincombe”
- Welsh: “Bincombe”
- “Bincombe”
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Highlights include Tumuli and Bincombe Down.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bincombe”. Photo: Maurice D Budden, CC BY-SA 2.0.