--- title: "Chaldon Herring – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Chaldon Herring, United Kingdom: Chaldon Herring or East Chaldon is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, about 8 miles (13 km)…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chaldon-herring" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chaldon-herring.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Memorial_to_Valentine_Ackland_and_Sylvia_Townsend_Warner_%287823505626%29.jpg/1920px-Memorial_to_Valentine_Ackland_and_Sylvia_Townsend_Warner_%287823505626%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Memorial_to_Valentine_Ackland_and_Sylvia_Townsend_Warner_%287823505626%29.jpg/1920px-Memorial_to_Valentine_Ackland_and_Sylvia_Townsend_Warner_%287823505626%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Chaldon Herring · Stoutcob The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldon_Herring), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Hambury Tout Hill in Dorset, England, UK 4 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambury_Tout) 2. St Catherine by the Sea Church in Holworth, Dorset 3.3 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Catherine-by-the-Sea,_Holworth) 3. The Five Marys round barrow cemetery Archaeological site in Dorset, England, UK 800 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Marys) 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 Chaldon Herring **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 87 km · Cardiff (CWL), 111 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 158 km\ - Bristol → Chaldon Herring 92 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-chaldon-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Chaldon+Herring) - Cardiff → Chaldon Herring 111 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-chaldon-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Chaldon+Herring) - London → Chaldon Herring 179 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-chaldon-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Chaldon+Herring) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Chaldon%20Herring) 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 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Despite 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 in Services 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 next Isle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone. From [Wikivoyage: Weymouth](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Weymouth), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. 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 70 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 177 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 577 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 579 km 5. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 580 km If you know how people move in Chaldon Herring – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cchaldon-herring&title=Chaldon+Herring&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fchaldon-herring), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Chaldon Herring - [Owermoigne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/owermoigne) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.9 km - [Winfrith Newburgh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winfrith-newburgh) village and civil parish in Dorset, UK 2.1 km [The place page for Chaldon Herring](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/chaldon-herring) [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/chaldon-herring, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt