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Chettle

Chettle is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.

Chettle
Chettle · Chettle, George H
The place

Chettle is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies 6 miles northeast of Blandford Forum. It is sited at the head of a gently sloping valley on the dip slope of the chalk formation called Cranborne Chase. The A354 trunk road crosses the valley about 1 km to the south. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 90.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chettle

2 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. 01
    Chettle House

    Chettle House is a Grade I listed country manor house with Queen Anne style architecture in Chettle, North Dorset, England, about 6 miles northeast of the town of Blandford Forum. It was built in 1710 for George Chafin, to designs of the architect Thomas Archer.

    300 m · Grade I listed country house in Chettle, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Larmer Tree Gardens

    The Larmer Tree Gardens near Tollard Royal in south Wiltshire, England, were created by landowner Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1880 as pleasure grounds for "public enlightenment and entertainment". They were the first private gardens opened for public enjoyment in the United Kingdom, and were free to enter.

    3.7 km · park in Tollard Royal, Wiltshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Chettle

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 68 km · Cardiff (CWL), 103 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 128 km
  • Bristol → Chettle
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £8–11
  • London → Chettle
    3 km · quickest by road, 19 min · £0.5
  • Cardiff → Chettle
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chettle

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 Chettle. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    60 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    184 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    548 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    556 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    578 km

If you know how people move in Chettle – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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