Cheselbourne
Cheselbourne is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset Downs, 7 miles (11 km) north-east of Dorchester.
Cheselbourne is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset Downs, 7 miles (11 km) north-east of Dorchester. The parish is at an altitude of 75 to 245 metres and covers an area of 1,175 hectares ; the underlying geology is chalk. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 296.
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Worth seeing in and around Cheselbourne
One place 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.
- 01Dewlish House
Dewlish House is a country house near Dewlish in Dorset. It is a Grade I Listed building.
2.4 km · Grade I listed building in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cheselbourne
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 70 km · Cardiff (CWL), 97 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 151 km
- Bristol → Cheselbourne75 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–13
- Cardiff → Cheselbourne95 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £16–21
- London → Cheselbourne173 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £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 Cheselbourne
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 Cheselbourne. 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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