Bridport in General

I love, love, love visiting Dorset. In fact, this picture of the coast near Bridport is my favourite beach ever. The beach is the Seatown beach just off the Golden Cap Campsite. Seatown is a little village of thatched cottages just off the coast road from Lyme Regis to Dorchester. From the beach, you can look up to Golden Cap which is the highest cliff in Britain. You can also climb it along the coast walk if you are feeling energetic! The beach here is full of fossils and bits of quartz - a regular free treasure trove. I always stay at the Golden Cap campsite (google Golden Cap webcam if you want to see the view from ...  Read the complete review

We travelled to bridport from weymouth to the market in july 2008. We wasnt sure on the buses so decided to travel by car. I'm not sure this was the best idea especially on market day. We got to brdiport ok but getting into the town and finding car park was a nightmare. Luckily I guessed the correct road and we managed to find a sign for a car park. When we entered into the car park it was packed with only two spaces left. Mum tried to park the car into the first space but the car wouldnt fit (I think she forgot she was in an escort not a fiesta lol). So we grabbed the last space instead. Then we found out the car parking on market day was free which was why ...  Read the complete review

So, what makes theediscerning break his travel writing op duck on a sleepy little village, and its coastal companion, in western Dorset? Well, it so happened that on the weekend before launching on his last coach ride round Europe, he took a day trip which afforded him, for his sins, two hours in each of Bridport and West Bay, and for your sins, you're now going to read about them. Bridport is an old place with a fair bit of (minor) history. Despite the name it is thereabouts that the river Brit (or sometimes Britt) hits the sea. The tourist bumpf will tell you of 9th or 10th century origins. Today, though, the history is mostly contained within ...  Read the complete review

The first time I came to Bridport was in 2000. We arrived at out rented bungalow on the day the petrol crisis took hold and I remember going down to Safeways on our first day and wondering why people were queuing at the petrol station. About an hour later I heard on the radio that fuel shortages were now rife across the country, but by then it was too late – no petrol, other than what was in my tank, which would be just enough to get us home, with perhaps a few tiny trips in the week. So, the result was I got to know Bridport very well, mainly by walking around the town rather than driving. This year we decided to go back, with the expectation that we’d ...  Read the complete review

For the first three months I thought I lived in Bridgewater. Bridport isn’t the first Town to spring to mind when West Dorset is mentioned. Counting inwards from the entrances to Bridport from the North, West, East and South, you will discover over fifty licensed premises serving a population of approximately seven and a half thousand people. It’s a laid back kinda Town. If you visit every one of them whilst counting you’ll be hospitalised. It’s been tried. Dire results! Try to approach Bridport for the first time, by driving West along the coast road from Weymouth and see the full beauty of the whole of Lyme Bay. Motoring gently ...  Read the complete review