--- title: "Compton Valence – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Compton Valence, United Kingdom: Compton Valence is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. Nearby: Winterbourne…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/compton-valence" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/compton-valence.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Compton Valence Compton Valence is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. The place Compton Valence is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited at the head of a narrow valley, formed by a small tributary of the River Frome, and is surrounded by the hills of the Dorset Downs, which has led to it having been described as "a pocket of habitation in the downs." Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the parish was 50. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Valence), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Compton Valence 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. Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery is an archaeological site, a group of Bronze Age round barrows, near the A35 road about 2 miles west of Winterbourne Abbas, in Dorset, England. It is an English Heritage site. 2.6 km · archaeological site in Dorset, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Lot_Barrow_Cemetery) 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 Compton Valence **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 72 km · Cardiff (CWL), 91 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 169 km\ - Bristol → Compton Valence 80 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-compton-valence) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Compton+Valence) - Cardiff → Compton Valence 93 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-compton-valence) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Compton+Valence) - London → Compton Valence 191 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-compton-valence) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Compton+Valence) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Compton%20Valence) 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 Compton Valence 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 Compton Valence. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 90 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 155 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 557 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 564 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 589 km If you know how people move in Compton Valence – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ccompton-valence&title=Compton+Valence&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fcompton-valence), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Compton Valence - [Winterbourne Abbas](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterbourne-abbas) village and civil parish in Dorset, UK 3.7 km - [Long Bredy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/long-bredy) village in Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, Dorset, England, UK 4 km - [Frampton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/frampton) village and civil parish in Dorset, UK 3.7 km - [Kingston Russell](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kingston-russell) settlement in Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, Dorset, England 2.2 km - [West Compton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-compton) village and civil parish in West Dorset, Dorset, England 3 km - [Wynford Eagle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wynford-eagle) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.9 km [The place page for Compton Valence](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/compton-valence) [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/compton-valence, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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