Axminster Museum, Axminster

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Axminster Museum is a town museum situated in the Old Police Station and Courthouse opposite St. Mary's Church in the centre of the town of Axminster, Devon, England. It was founded in 1982. ()

Coordinates: 50°46'52"N, 3°0'0"W

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Silver StAxminster EX13 5AH United Kingdom

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+44 1297 639884

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Axminster Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Lyme Regis Museum, Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre, Great House, Dinosaurland Fossil Museum.

4.9 miSE
Museum, Natural history museum
Lyme Regis Museum, Lyme Regis
125 min walk • Lyme Regis Museum is situated in the town of Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. It is a registered charity under English law.
5.4 miSE
History museum, Natural history museum, Museum
Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre, Charmouth
138 min walk • The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England.
4.1 miSW
History museum, Museum
Great House, Colyton
106 min walk • Great House on South Street in the town of Colyton, Devon, is the remnant of an historic Elizabethan mansion house built by the Yonge family, originally prominent wool merchants in the town, later Yonge baronets. It is a grade II* listed building.
4.8 miSE
Museum, Specialty museum, Science museum
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum, Lyme Regis
122 min walk • Dinosaurland Fossil Museum is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. The museum is located in a historic Grade I listed former congregational church building.
4.8 miSE
50°43'32"N • 2°56'2"W
The Town Mill, Lyme Regis
123 min walk • Museum, Historical place, Cafe
3.7 miSW
Forts and castles
Colcombe Castle, Colyton
95 min walk • Colcombe Castle was a castle or fortified house situated about a 0.5 mi north of the village of Colyton in East Devon. It was a seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon, whose principal seat was Tiverton Castle, about 22 miles to the north west.
4.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Lambert's Castle Hill
117 min walk • Lambert's Castle Hill rises between the villages of Marshwood and Fishpond Bottom in the county of Dorset, England. It is part of the South Dorset Downs and its prominence qualifies it as one of the so-called HuMPs.
4.7 miE
Forts and castles
Coney's Castle
120 min walk • Coney's Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, England. The name Coney is from the Old English for rabbit, suggesting medieval use as a domestic warren, as at nearby Pilsdon Pen.
2.7 miW
Historical place, Church
Loughwood Meeting House, Axminster
69 min walk • Loughwood Meeting House is a historic Baptist chapel, 1 mile south of the village of Dalwood, Devon in England. There was a meeting house on this site in 1653, although the current building may date from the late 17th century or early 18th century.
4.5 miSE
50°43'45"N • 2°56'13"W
Woodmead Halls, Lyme Regis
116 min walk • Bridge
2.8 miW
Architecture
Shute Barton, Axminster
71 min walk • Old Shute House, located at Shute, near Colyton, Axminster, Devon, is the remnant of a mediaeval manor house with Tudor additions, today in the ownership of the National Trust. It was given a Grade I listing on 14 December 1955.