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Gillingham works well as a base: 10 minutes from Motcombe, 7km from Gold Hill, Shaftesbury.
Gillingham is in England, United Kingdom, with about 8,800 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Motcombe, about 4 km away.
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Within an hour or so of Gillingham: Gold Hill, Shaftesbury (7 km), Stourhead (8 km), Stourhead (Pride and Prejudice proposal) (8 km), Haynes International Motor Museum (20 km).
The nearest famous roads are Cheddar Gorge Road (B3135), Rhinefield Ornamental Drive and Military Road, Isle of Wight.
Gillingham is in England, United Kingdom, about 4 km from Motcombe.
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112 also works. NHS non-emergency medical advice: 111. National Highways breakdown assistance on motorways: 0300 123 5000.
Full driving guide for United Kingdom8 notable places within an hour's drive.
photogenic
Steep cobbled street lined with thatched cottages, plunging past the buttressed walls of Shaftesbury Abbey with views over Blackmore Vale. Made famous by Ridley Scott's 1973 Hovis bread advert.
7 km · about 10 min drive
landmark
One of the world's finest landscape gardens with a magnificent lake, classical temples and a stunning Palladian mansion in Wiltshire.
8 km · about 15 min drive
film location
The Palladian bridge and Temple of Apollo in Stourhead's landscape garden host Darcy's rain-soaked first proposal in the 2005 film.
8 km · about 15 min drive
museum
The UK's largest collection of classic and vintage cars and motorcycles, with over 400 vehicles on display.
20 km · about 25 min drive
racetrack
A 1,000-yard chalk downland hillclimb in Wiltshire with a fearsome uphill Karousel corner, run by enthusiasts since 1967 and one of the best places in Britain to watch sprint cars up close.
21 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
The oldest of Wiltshire's chalk horses, cut into the escarpment below the Iron Age hillfort of Bratton Camp.
26 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
A 55 m chalk hill figure of a club-wielding naked man above a Dorset village, now dated to the late Saxon period.
29 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Mystical terraced hill crowned by St Michael's Tower, steeped in Arthurian and early Christian legends with panoramic Somerset views.
32 km · about 35 min drive
5 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
April to October
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