Bridport
Bridport is a market town and civil parish in Dorset, England, 1+1⁄2 miles inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 13,700 residents
- Description: market town in Dorset, England
- Also known as: “Bridport, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bridport Arts Centre and Bridport Museum.
Bridport Arts Centre
Arts center
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bridport Arts Centre is an arts centre in Bridport, Dorset, England. Founded in 1973, it is housed in and around a 19th-century, Grade II listed building, formerly known as the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.
Bridport Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bridport Museum is a museum in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is housed within an early 16th century building known as the Castle, located on South Street. The building has been Grade II* Listed since 1950.
Bridport Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: MrPanyGoff, CC BY 2.0.
Bridport Town Hall is an 18th-century town hall on South Street in Bridport, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Bay and Symondsbury.
West Bay
Photo: Matthew Hartley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Bay is a small harbour village in Dorset, England, approximately 2 miles south of the centre of Bridport.
Symondsbury
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Symondsbury is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, 1.5 miles west of Bridport and 16 miles west of Dorchester. The A35 road runs through the parish to the south of the village.
Allington
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Allington is a neighbourhood of Bridport in Dorset, England, immediately north-west of Bridport town centre on the west bank of the River Brit. Formerly a separate village and civil parish, Allington and Bridport had grown to be contiguous by the end of the 19th century.
Bridport
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.7338° or 50° 44′ 2″ northLongitude
-2.7589° or 2° 45′ 32″ westPopulation
13,700Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BRPOpen location code
9C2VP6MR+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 22594070OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bridport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريدبورت”
- Asturian: “Bridport”
- Basque: “Bridport”
- Bengali: “ব্রিডপোর্ট”
- Cebuano: “Bridport”
- Chinese: “Bridport”
- Chinese: “布里德波特”
- Czech: “Bridport”
- Danish: “Bridport”
- Dutch: “Bridport”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريدبورت”
- French: “Bridport”
- German: “Bridport”
- Greek: “Μπέρντπορτ”
- Gujarati: “બ્રિડપોર્ટ”
- Hebrew: “ברידפורט”
- Irish: “Bridport”
- Italian: “Bridport”
- Japanese: “ブリッジポート”
- Japanese: “ブリッドポート”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಪೋರ್ಟ್”
- Korean: “브리드포트”
- Ladin: “Bridport”
- Latin: “Bridport”
- Lithuanian: “Bridportas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bridport”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bridport”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bridport”
- Persian: “بریدپورت”
- Polish: “Bridport”
- Portuguese: “Bridport”
- Romanian: “Bridport”
- Russian: “Бридпорт”
- Silesian: “Bridport”
- Slovenian: “Bridport”
- South Azerbaijani: “بریدپورت”
- Spanish: “Bridport (Dorset)”
- Spanish: “Bridport”
- Swedish: “Bridport”
- Tamil: “பிரிதிபோர்ட்”
- Telugu: “బ్రైడ్ పోర్ట్”
- Ukrainian: “Брідпорт (Англія)”
- Ukrainian: “Брідпорт”
- Urdu: “بریدپورت”
- Welsh: “Bridport”
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