--- title: "Affpuddle – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Affpuddle, United Kingdom: Affpuddle is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, in the Dorset district…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/affpuddle" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/affpuddle.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/St_Lawrence%2C_Affpuddle.JPG/3840px-St_Lawrence%2C_Affpuddle.JPG" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Affpuddle Affpuddle is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, in the Dorset district of the ceremonial county of Dorset, England, 9 miles (14 km) east of Dorchester. ![Affpuddle](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/St_Lawrence%2C_Affpuddle.JPG/3840px-St_Lawrence%2C_Affpuddle.JPG) Affpuddle · Wikimedia Commons The place Affpuddle is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, in the Dorset district of the ceremonial county of Dorset, England, 9 miles (14 km) east of Dorchester. The local travel links are 3 miles (4.8 km) from the village to Moreton railway station and 20 miles (32 km) to Bournemouth Airport. Part of the village street is the B3390, which divides the village into two. Affpuddle parish included the settlements of Briantspuddle to the east and Pallington to the south. In the 2001 census this parish had a population of 402. On 1 April 2010 the parish was abolished and merged with Turners Puddle to form "Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle". In the 2011 census this joint parish had 200 households and a population of 436. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affpuddle), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Affpuddle 2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Church of Saint John, Tolpuddle The Church of Saint John the Evangelist is a Church of England parish church in Tolpuddle, Dorset. The church is a Grade I listed building. 1.8 km · Grade I listed building in Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tolpuddle) 2. Church of Saint John the Evangelist St John's Church is a Church of England church in Tincleton, Dorset, England. It was designed by Benjamin Ferrey and built in 1849–50. 3.5 km · church building in Tincleton, West Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tincleton) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Affpuddle **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 78 km · Cardiff (CWL), 104 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 150 km\ - Bristol → Affpuddle 82 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-affpuddle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Affpuddle) - Cardiff → Affpuddle 103 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-affpuddle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Affpuddle) - London → Affpuddle 173 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £18–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-affpuddle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Affpuddle) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Affpuddle) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Affpuddle Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Affpuddle. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries. From [Wikivoyage: Dorset](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dorset), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 69 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 175 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 570 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 571 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 575 km If you know how people move in Affpuddle – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Caffpuddle&title=Affpuddle&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Faffpuddle), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Affpuddle - [Tolpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tolpuddle) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 1.6 km - [Tincleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tincleton) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.8 km - [Burleston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burleston) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 3.1 km - [Athelhampton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/athelhampton) settlement in Athelhampton and Puddletown, Dorset, England 3.6 km - [Turners Puddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/turners-puddle) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.2 km - [Briantspuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/briantspuddle) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.1 km [The place page for Affpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/affpuddle) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/affpuddle, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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