--- title: "Cheselbourne – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Cheselbourne, United Kingdom: Cheselbourne is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset Downs, 7 miles (11 km) north-east of…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cheselbourne" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cheselbourne.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Cheselbourne Cheselbourne is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset Downs, 7 miles (11 km) north-east of Dorchester. The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheselbourne), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Dewlish 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewlish_House) 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 Cheselbourne **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 70 km · Cardiff (CWL), 97 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 151 km\ - Bristol → Cheselbourne 75 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-cheselbourne) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Cheselbourne) - Cardiff → Cheselbourne 95 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-cheselbourne) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Cheselbourne) - London → Cheselbourne 173 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-cheselbourne) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Cheselbourne) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Cheselbourne) 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 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries. From [Wikivoyage: Dorset](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dorset), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08. 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 74 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 169 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 563 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 568 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 571 km If you know how people move in Cheselbourne – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ccheselbourne&title=Cheselbourne&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fcheselbourne), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Cheselbourne - [Hilton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hilton) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 3.7 km - [Melcombe Horsey](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/melcombe-horsey) civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.3 km - [Dewlish](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dewlish) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.2 km - [Ansty](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ansty) village in Dorset, England, UK 4 km - [Melcombe Bingham](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/melcombe-bingham) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 3 km - [Ansty Cross](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ansty-cross) hamlet in Dorset, England, UK 4 km [The place page for Cheselbourne](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/cheselbourne) [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/cheselbourne, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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