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West Bay

West Bay is a small harbour village in , , approximately 2 miles south of the centre of .
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Bridport Harbour” and “West Bay, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St John’s Church and Holy Trinity Church, Bothenhampton.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John's Church is a Church of England church in West Bay, , England. It was built in 1935–39 to the designs of William Henry Randoll Blacking and has been a Grade II listed building since 1975.

Church
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Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church at , near in , England. It was designed and built by the English arts and crafts architect Edward Schroeder Prior in 1887–89. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Church
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in , , England was built in the 13th or 14th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bridport and Bothenhampton.

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is a market town and civil parish in , England, 1+1⁄2 miles inland from the near the confluence of the and its tributary the Asker.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of , in southwest , England, just outside the town of Bridport. It is separated from the town only by the River Asker and the A35 Bridport by-pass.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of in , England, immediately north-west of Bridport town centre on the west bank of the . Formerly a separate village and civil parish, and Bridport had grown to be contiguous by the end of the 19th century.

West Bay

Latitude
50.7113° or 50° 42′ 41″ north
Longitude
-2.7613° or 2° 45′ 41″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
United Nations Location Code
GB WYX
Open location code
9C2VP66Q+GF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 22593895
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2634502
Wiki­data ID
Q1344227
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“West Bay” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “West Bay”
  • Chinese: “多塞特郡西灣”
  • Dutch: “West Bay, Dorset”
  • French: “West Bay”
  • German: “West Bay”
  • Irish: “West Bay”
  • Italian: “West Bay”
  • Japanese: “ウェストベイ”
  • Persian: “وست بی، دورست”
  • Russian: “Вест-Бэй”
  • Spanish: “West Bay”
  • Welsh: “West Bay, Dorset”

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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 Wikivoyage page “West Bay”. Photo: Matthew Hartley, CC BY-SA 2.0.