Chaldon Herring
Chaldon Herring or East Chaldon is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, about 8 miles (13 km) south-east of the county town of Dorchester.
Chaldon Herring or East Chaldon is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, about 8 miles (13 km) south-east of the county town of Dorchester. It is sited 2 miles (3.2 km) from the coast in the chalk hills of the South Dorset Downs. The highest point in the area is Chaldon Hill about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the south, overlooking the sea. In the 2011 census the civil parish had 59 households and a population of 140.
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Worth seeing in and around Chaldon Herring
3 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.
- 01Hambury Tout
Hambury Tout is a large chalk hill by the coast near Lulworth, Dorset, England. The hill overlooks Lulworth Cove to the west.
4 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Catherine by the Sea
St Catherine-by-the-Sea is a Church of England church in Holworth, Dorset, England. The small wooden church, which forms part of the Watercombe Benefice, holds a service on the fourth Sunday of the month.
3.3 km · church in Holworth, Dorset · Wikipedia - 03The Five Marys round barrow cemetery
The Five Marys is a group of Bronze Age round barrows near the village of Chaldon Herring, in Dorset, England. The site is a scheduled monument.
800 m · archaeological site in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chaldon Herring
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 87 km · Cardiff (CWL), 111 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 158 km
- Bristol → Chaldon Herring92 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–15
- Cardiff → Chaldon Herring111 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £19–25
- London → Chaldon Herring179 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Chaldon Herring
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 Chaldon Herring. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDespite its history as a cross-Channel ferry port, these days the furthest you can get on a passenger vessel from Weymouth is Portland; ships from the Channel Islands and France dock at Poole.
- Get inServices to Poole from the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, as well as Cherbourg in Normandy and Saint-Malo in Brittany by fast or traditional ferry are provided by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
- Go nextIsle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone.
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