--- title: "Athelhampton – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Athelhampton, United Kingdom: Athelhampton is a settlement in the civil parish of Athelhampton and Puddletown, in Dorset, England, situated approximately…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/athelhampton" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/athelhampton.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Gardens_Old_and_New_Vol_1_Athelhampton_Hall_0181.jpg/1920px-Gardens_Old_and_New_Vol_1_Athelhampton_Hall_0181.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Hamlet in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Athelhampton Athelhampton is a settlement in the civil parish of Athelhampton and Puddletown, in Dorset, England, situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of Dorchester. ![Athelhampton](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Gardens_Old_and_New_Vol_1_Athelhampton_Hall_0181.jpg/1920px-Gardens_Old_and_New_Vol_1_Athelhampton_Hall_0181.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Athelhampton · Charles Latham The place Athelhampton is a settlement in the civil parish of Athelhampton and Puddletown, in Dorset, England, situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of Dorchester. It consists of a manor house and a former Church of England parish church. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of the civil parish is 30. On 1 April 2024 the parish was abolished and merged with Puddletown to form "Athelhampton and Puddletown". Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athelhampton), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Athelhampton 4 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. Dewlish House Dewlish House is a country house near Dewlish in Dorset. It is a Grade I Listed building. 3.2 km · Grade I listed building in West Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewlish_House) 2. 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. 2 km · Grade I listed building in Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tolpuddle) 3. Waterston Manor Waterston Manor, Puddletown, Dorset is a manor house with 17th century origins, that was extensively rebuilt after a fire in 1863 and remodelled in 1911. The manor was the inspiration for Weatherbury Farm in Thomas Hardy's novel, Far from the Madding Crowd. 3.6 km · Grade I listed manor house in West Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterston_Manor) 4. 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. 2.5 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 Athelhampton **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 76 km · Cardiff (CWL), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 153 km\ - Bristol → Athelhampton 81 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-athelhampton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Athelhampton) - Cardiff → Athelhampton 101 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-athelhampton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Athelhampton) - London → Athelhampton 175 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-athelhampton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Athelhampton) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Athelhampton) 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 Athelhampton 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 Athelhampton. 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 72 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 171 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 569 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 572 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 573 km If you know how people move in Athelhampton – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cathelhampton&title=Athelhampton&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fathelhampton), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Athelhampton - [Tolpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tolpuddle) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 2.2 km - [Puddletown](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puddletown) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.2 km - [Affpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/affpuddle) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.7 km - [Woodsford](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/woodsford) hamlet in south west Dorset, England 3.9 km - [Tincleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tincleton) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.3 km - [Burleston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burleston) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 1 km [The place page for Athelhampton](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/athelhampton) [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/athelhampton, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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