Belchalwell
Belchalwell is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Okeford Fitzpaine in the Blackmore Vale, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England.
Belchalwell is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Okeford Fitzpaine in the Blackmore Vale, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It lies 2+1⁄2 miles south of Sturminster Newton and 6 miles northwest of Blandford Forum. Belchalwell Street is sited on Upper Greensand, with Lower Belchalwell on the boundary of Gault and Kimmeridge Clay, both beneath the north slopes of Bell Hill, part of the Dorset Downs. In 1881 the parish had a population of 169. On 25 March 1885 the parish was abolished and merged with Okeford Fitzpaine and Fifehead Neville.
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Worth seeing in and around Belchalwell
6 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.
- 01Sturminster Newton Castle
Sturminster Newton Castle is a site consisting of the remains of a medieval manor house within an Iron Age hillfort, near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England. The ruins are privately owned.
3.8 km · fortified manor house, formerly a hillfort, in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Shillingstone Quarry
Shillingstone Quarry SSSI, Dorset is an 8.13 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England, notified in 1995.
3.2 km · chalk quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England · Wikipedia - 03Parish Church of St Andrew
St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, and in the Diocese of Salisbury. It is in the Okeford Benefice, a group of four parishes in the Blackmore Vale.
2 km · church in Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Parish Church of St Eustace, Ibberton
The Parish Church of St Eustace is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the village of Ibberton, Dorset. It stands to the south of the village, on a steep hillside.
2.2 km · church in Ibberton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Aldhelm's Church, Belchalwell
St Aldhelm's Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the village of Belchalwell, Dorset. It is in the ecclesiastical parish of Belchalwell, which is part of the Benefice of Hazelbury Bryan and the Hillside Parishes.
200 m · church in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Fiddleford Manor
Fiddleford Manor is a medieval manor house located near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. It is thought to have been originally built around 1370 for William Latimer, the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, after the manor passed to him in 1355.
4 km · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia
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Getting to Belchalwell
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 62 km · Cardiff (CWL), 92 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 144 km
- Stations
- Shillingstone railway station, 3.9 km
- Bristol → Belchalwell66 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £8–11
- Cardiff → Belchalwell90 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £14–19
- London → Belchalwell166 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Belchalwell
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 Belchalwell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
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Next door to Belchalwell
- Sturminster Newtontown and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km
- Shillingstonevillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km
- Okeford Fitzpainevillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK2 km
- Fifehead Nevillevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Ibbertonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.9 km
- Woollandvillage in Dorset, England3.1 km