Charmouth
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![The Abbots House, formerly The Queens Armes Hotel](/Images/godic/202501/04/The_Abbots_House_Restaurant_-_geograph.org.uk_-_9635474001.jpg")
![Golden Cap viewed from Charmouth beach](/Images/godic/202501/04/Golden_Cap_from_Charmouth_-_geograph.org.uk_-_11845794001.jpg")
Charmouth is a village and civil parish at the mouth of the River Char in West Dorset, England. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,310. In the 2011 census the population of the parish, combined with the small parish of Catherston Leweston to the north, was 1,352.