Dewlish
Dewlish is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, and is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) north-east of the county town Dorchester.
Dewlish is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, and is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) north-east of the county town Dorchester. The village is sited in the valley of the small Devil's Brook among the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs; the parish covers about 2,100 acres (850 ha) and extends west to include part of the valley of the small Cheselbourne stream, and east to include a dry valley at Dennet's Bottom. The surrounding area is part of the Dorset National Landscape area. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 284.
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Worth seeing in and around Dewlish
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.
900 m · Grade I listed building in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dewlish
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 72 km · Cardiff (CWL), 99 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 151 km
- Bristol → Dewlish77 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–14
- Cardiff → Dewlish98 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–22
- London → Dewlish174 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £18–24
- 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 Dewlish
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 Dewlish. 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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