Charminster
Charminster is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated on the River Cerne and A352 road 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the county town Dorchester.
Charminster is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated on the River Cerne and A352 road 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the county town Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 2,940 and also contains the hamlet of Charlton Down.
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Worth seeing in and around Charminster
10 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.
- 01The Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester
The Dinosaur Museum is a museum presenting dinosaurs in Dorchester, the county town of Dorset, in southern England. The Dinosaur Museum is the only museum in mainland Britain dedicated purely to dinosaurs.
2.4 km · museum in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Maumbury Rings
Maumbury Rings is a Neolithic henge in the south of Dorchester town in Dorset, England. It is a large circular earthwork, 85 metres in diameter, with a single bank and an entrance to the north east.
2.9 km · Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia - 03Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery is located in Dorchester, Dorset, England. It was known as the Dorset County Museum until 2021.
2.3 km · museum in Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Mary
St Mary's Church, also known as St Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, England. It was built in 1910–12 for a cost of £11,500.
2.7 km · church in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Statue of Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy Statue is a statue of Thomas Hardy, located at Dorchester, Dorset, England. It was funded by public subscription to commemorate Hardy's life and works, three years after his death.
2.2 km · statue in Dorchester, Dorset, England, by Eric Kennington · Wikipedia - 06Poundbury Hill
Poundbury Hill is the site of a scheduled Prehistoric and Roman archaeological remains and includes evidence of a Neolithic settlement, a substantial Bronze Age occupation site and an Iron Age hillfort. There are also late Iron Age burials and a section of Roman aqueduct.
1.5 km · Dorset hill fort · Wikipedia - 07Wolfeton House
Wolfeton House is an early Tudor and Elizabethan manor house in Dorset, England. It is situated amongst water-meadows north-west of Dorchester not far from the confluence of the rivers Frome and Cerne.
500 m · Grade I listed historic house museum in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of St George
St George's Church is a Church of England church in Dorchester, Dorset, England and the parish church of the suburb of Fordington. St George's has been Grade I Listed since 1950.
2.8 km · church in Fordington, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Dorchester Castle
Dorchester Castle was a motte and bailey castle in the market town of Dorchester, Dorset, southern England.
2.1 km · medieval castle in Dorset, England · Wikipedia - 10Dorset Teddy Bear Museum
The Dorset Teddy Bear Museum is a teddy bear museum in Dorchester, Dorset, south west England. It opened in 1990 in Bournemouth, before moving to Dorchester in 1995.
2.5 km · teddy bear museum in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Charminster
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 75 km · Cardiff (CWL), 96 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 162 km
- Stations
- Dorchester South railway station, 2.9 km · Dorchester West railway station, 2.5 km
- Bristol → Charminster81 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £9–13
- Cardiff → Charminster97 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £17–23
- London → Charminster184 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £19–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Charminster
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 Charminster. 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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If you know how people move in Charminster – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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- Stinsfordvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.5 km
- Bradford Peverellvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.2 km
- DurnovariaRoman city at present-day Dochester, United Kingdom2.2 km