If you are visiting the town of Chideock, which is located inside the gorgeous county of Dorset, you will be in an excellent location for taking advantage of and discovering everything that the town and its surrounds have to offer. This is an excellent location since it offers a varied selection of excellent housing options, ranging from luxurious hotels to small bed and breakfast establishments, as well as some lovely local warmth and a calm ambiance. The surrounding areas of Chideock and the nearby regions provide a diverse selection of tourist and business hotels from which to choose.
Visiting Chideock Dorset which is the principal village of a small, richly fertile valley that is hilllocked on three sides, sloping gently to the sea, and scattered with farm buildings and cottages made of the yellow sandstone that is exposed in patches on every scarred bank and cliff. Dorset is the county town of Dorsetshire. The settlement itself is built primarily of this stone and covered in black thatch. It is particularly beautiful to the south of the A35, which passes through it. Despite its otherwise unremarkable appearance, the parish church, which dates mostly from the l5th century, is home to a remarkable mother-of-pearl cross, which was formerly carried by monks in processions in and around Jerusalem and was donated to the parish by its vicar, the Reverend Dr. William D. Omand in 1962. Additionally, it has a beautiful Purbeck marble effigy (about l5l5) of a member of the Arundel family. The unusual structure directly north of the church is a Roman Catholic funerary chapel, and half a mile north, next to the early nineteenth-century manor home, is an unusually elaborate Roman Catholic church (about 1870) with several murals. Both the manor and the church were built, and some of the murals were painted, by the same Weld family that was responsible for the establishment of the first legal Roman Catholic church in England after the Reformation. The Weld family continues to play an important role in the local Catholic community.
To the south of the village, half a mile away, lies Seatown, a lovely fishing village with a shingle beach that is rarely crowded and boasts majestic cliff vistas and drawn up fishing boats. It is arguably the greatest location from which to approach the 619-foot-tall domed Golden Cap, the tallest cliff on England's South Coast, which is roughly three quarters of a mile of strenuous walking away from here. Even as late as the mid-19th century, this appears to have been a thriving smuggling zone, with brandy being the primary import. It is speculated that the clusters of trees that curiously grow on the tops of surrounding hills were planted as beacons for illegal smugglers.
- Chideock Geolocation Latitude 50.73206° N Longitude -2.81847° E
- Chideock Postcode DT6
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