Compton Abbas is a Village in the county of Dorset.

Retail in Compton Abbas

There are great places to visit near Compton Abbas including some great towns, waterfalls, villages, historic buildings, historic monuments, ancient sites, hills, castles, ruins and airports.

Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, Wareham, and Blandford Forum are great places to visit near Compton Abbas if you like towns.

There are a number of waterfalls near to Compton Abbas including Jericho Weir.

Uplyme, Bincombe, Symondsbury, and Abbotsbury are great places to visit near Compton Abbas if you like villages.

There are a number of historic buildings near to Compton Abbas including The Cobb.

The area around Compton Abbas's best historic monuments can be found at King's Statue (King George III Statue).

There are a number of ancient sites near Compton Abbas including Eggardon Hill, Hambledon Hill, Badbury Rings, Kingston Russell Stone Circle, The Nine Stones, and Maiden Castle.

Eggardon Hill is one of Compton Abbas's best, nearby hills to visit in Compton Abbas.

Corfe Castle is one of Compton Abbas's best, nearby castles to visit in Compton Abbas.

Ruins to visit near Compton Abbas include Corfe Castle.

Bournemouth Airport is a great place to visit close to Compton Abbas if you like airports.

Compton Abbas History

There are some historic monuments around Compton Abbas:

• Linear boundary 870m south west of Spring Farm
• Long barrow 820m south east of Telegraph Clump
• Earthworks in Ditchey Coppice
• Bowl barrow north of Breeze Hill, 540m ESE of the top of Zig-Zag Hill
• Medieval fortified house at Castle Hill
• Shaftesbury Abbey
• Roman villa on Little Barton Hill
• Pillow mound on Okeford Hill 660m east of Hartcliff Farm
• Fiddleford Manor
• Bowl barrow 800m NNE of Gore Farm on Melbury Down
• Bowl barrow 380m west of the western edge of Hawcombe Copse, Charlton Down
• Lazerton Farm causewayed road
• Abbey precinct wall on Gold Hill
• Medieval standing cross 50m east of St Peter's Church
• Cross dyke 480m and 690m NNW of Fontmell Hill House
• Cross dyke on Okeford Hill 880m south east of Hartcliff Farm
• Cross dyke and linear boundary on Melbury Hill and Compton Down
• Hambledon Hill camp
• Fishponds S of Layton Lane
• Bowl barrow on Berwick Drove, 620m north east of Ashcombe Farm
• Bowl barrow 850m ENE of Langbourne
• Two cross dykes on Fontmell Down, 850m and 880m south east of Gourd's Farm
• Bowl barrow and pillow mound on Earl's Hill, 650m and 780m north east of Furzey Down Farm
• Moated site 130m west of Bere Marsh Farm
• Moated site at Brick Kiln Copse
• Two bowl barrows at the south west corner of Pond Bottom Plantation, 1480m and 1520m NNW of Down Barn
• Two bowl barrows in Hinton Bushes 810m north of Pimperne Long Barrow
• Berwick Coombe ditch
• Slight univallate hillfort 850m north east of Busseys Stool Farm
• Two bowl barrows west of Bonsley Common, 900m NNE of Turnworth House
• Causewayed camp on Hambledon Hill
• St Mary's Church, remains of, East Compton
• Bowl barrow on Woodley Down 675m NNE of Ashmore Farm
• Bowl barrow known as Folly Barrow
• Bowl barrow in Win Green Clump, 730m south of Higher Berry Court Cottages
• Bowl barrow 130m south of Bloody Shard Gate
• King's Court Palace moated site
• Medieval standing cross 30m south of the Church of St Paul
• Bowl barrow 800m east of Gourd's Farm
• Cross ridge dyke on Charlton Down, 1250m and 1350m south west of Higher Berry Court Cottages
• Castle Rings camp
• Medieval strip lynchets 450m south of Springhead Farm
• Two Late Iron Age or Romano-British enclosed settlements with part of an associated field system 420m NNW of South Farm
• Bowl barrow on Okeford Hill 760m ESE of Hartcliff Farm
• Late Saxon urban area E of Castle Hill
• Pillow mound on Okeford Hill 690m east of Hartcliff Farm
• Moated site at Mount Pleasant
• Deserted medieval village at Darknoll Farm
• Romano-British settlement and two bowl barrows on Blandford Race Down 450m south east of Telegraph Clump
• Long barrow on Ashmore Down, 775m north of Ashgrove Cottages
• Hod Hill camp and Lydsbury Rings
• Old Wardour Castle: a tower keep castle, 17th century stables and later garden features
• Section of Roman road, 380m north east of Ashmore Farm
• Cross ridge dyke 140m north and 70m south of Hatts Barn
• Chettle Long Barrow at north east corner of Eastbury Park
• Remains of East Haimes House and the adjacent section of the deer park pale
• Earthworks on site of manor house
• Roman villa 300yds (270m) W of Park House Farm buildings
• Two bowl barrows in Hinton Bushes 850m north of Pimperne Long Barrow
• Harbin's Park, a medieval deer park pale
• Gillingham Park boundary bank
• Medieval cross base 150m south of Holy Rood Church
• Two bowl barrows 350m south west of Keeper's Lodge south east of Bareden Down
• Cross dyke on Bell Hill 610m east of Brooks Farm
• Site of St John's Church
• Linear boundary and section of Roman road, 550m south east of Ashmore Farm
• Melbury Beacon and circular enclosure on Melbury Hill
• Bowl barrow 620m south east of Langton Lodge Farm
• Bowl barrow 220m north west of Gore Farm
• Sedgehill churchyard cross
• Bowl barrow 200m south east of Pimperne Long Barrow
• Berwick Coombe round barrow
• Two bowl barrows 300m SW of Spring Farm
• Cross ridge dyke 1000m south west of Higher Berry Court Cottages
• Earthworks on Ringmoor
• Cross dyke on Okeford Hill 1km south west of Broughton House
• Bowl barrow on Breeze Hill, 760m south east of the top of Zig-Zag Hill
• Long barrow and a round barrow cemetery at Telegraph Clump on Blandford Race Down
• Pimperne Long Barrow
• Enclosure S of Pimperne Down
• Bowl barrow on the south west slope of Breeze Hill, Melbury Down
• Bowl barrow 800m SSE of Brooks Farm on Bell Hill