Charlton Marshall
Charlton Marshall is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset.

Charlton Marshall is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the Dorset administrative district, on the A350 road 2 miles south of the market town of Blandford Forum. It is sited on a river terrace above the floodplain of the River Stour, with most of the land in the parish stretching south-west over chalk hills. In the 2011 census the number of dwellings recorded within the parish was 513 and the population was 1,156.
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Worth seeing in and around Charlton Marshall
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.
- 01St Mary the Virgin, Tarrant Crawford
The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
2.2 km · church in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of All Saints
All Saints' Church is a Church of England parish church in Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1852–53, but the tower is 15th-century.
2.3 km · church in Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Royal Signals Museum
The Royal Signals Museum is a military museum based at Blandford Camp in the civil parish of Tarrant Monkton, northwest of the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset, England. The museum traces the history of the British Army's battlefield communications experts from the introduction of the telegraph in the Crimean War to the secretive story of cryptography and cyber warfare.
3.9 km · regimental museum in Tarrant Monkton, Dorset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Tarrant Abbey
Tarrant Abbey was a Cistercian nunnery in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England.
1.3 km · abbey in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, UK · Wikipedia - 05Blandford Forum Town Hall
Blandford Forum Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The 18th-century structure, which was the meeting place of Blandford Forum Borough Council, is a Grade I listed building.
3 km · town hall in Blandford Forum, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Pump House
The Pump House, Blandford Forum, Dorset, England, is an 18th-century water source erected in 1760 in commemoration of a fire which almost destroyed the town in 1731. It was designed and paid for by John Bastard who, with his brother William, worked as builders and architects and were largely responsible for the town's reconstruction.
2.9 km · Grade I listed pump house in Blandford Forum, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Charlton Marshall
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 73 km · Cardiff (CWL), 105 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 137 km
- Stations
- Blandford Forum railway station, 3.1 km · Charlton Marshall Halt railway station, 400 m · Spetisbury railway station, 2.1 km
- Bristol → Charlton Marshall76 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £8–11
- London → Charlton Marshall159 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £17–22
- Cardiff → Charlton Marshall102 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £15–19
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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 Charlton Marshall. 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 Charlton Marshall
- Blandford Forumtown and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Spetisburyvillage in Dorset, England, UK1.6 km
- Tarrant Keynestonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.2 km
- Blandford St Maryvillage and civil parish in Dorset, UK2.3 km
- Langton Long Blandfordvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.1 km
- Tarrant Crawfordvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.3 km