Child Okeford

Worth seeing in and around Child Okeford

7 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
   Hod Hill

   Hod Hill is a large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, 3 miles north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The fort sits on a 143 m chalk hill of the same name that lies between the adjacent Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase.

   3 km · large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Fiddleford Manor

   Fiddleford Manor is a medieval manor house located near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. It is thought to have been originally built around 1370 for William Latimer, the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, after the manor passed to him in 1355.

   3.5 km · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Shillingstone Quarry

   Shillingstone Quarry SSSI, Dorset is an 8.13 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England, notified in 1995.

   3.1 km · chalk quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Parish Church of St Andrew

   St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, and in the Diocese of Salisbury. It is in the Okeford Benefice, a group of four parishes in the Blackmore Vale.

   3.3 km · church in Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Church of Unknown Dedication

   St Luke's Church is a Church of England church in West Orchard, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1876–77 to the designs of Thomas Henry Wyatt, but the chancel is 15th-century.

   3.9 km · church building in West Orchard, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Stepleton House

   Stepleton House is a 17th-century country house in the parish of Iwerne Stepleton in Dorset, situated about 5 kilometres north of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

   3.2 km · Grade I listed house in North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Hambledon Hill

   Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk outcrop, on the southwestern corner of Cranborne Chase, separated from the Dorset Downs by the River Stour.

   1.1 km · prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Child Okeford

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 62 km · Cardiff (CWL), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 138 km

Stations

Shillingstone railway station, 1.4 km

• Bristol → Child Okeford

  65 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £8–10
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• Cardiff → Child Okeford

  91 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £14–18
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• London → Child Okeford

  161 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–23
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