--- title: "Dewlish – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Dewlish, United Kingdom: Dewlish is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, and is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km)…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dewlish" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dewlish.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Tomb_chamber%2C_St_Mary%27s%2C_Winterborne_Stickland.jpg/1920px-Tomb_chamber%2C_St_Mary%27s%2C_Winterborne_Stickland.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Tomb_chamber%2C_St_Mary%27s%2C_Winterborne_Stickland.jpg/1920px-Tomb_chamber%2C_St_Mary%27s%2C_Winterborne_Stickland.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Dewlish · Ydigresse The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewlish), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Dewlish 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](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 Dewlish **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 72 km · Cardiff (CWL), 99 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 151 km\ - Bristol → Dewlish 77 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-dewlish) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Dewlish) - Cardiff → Dewlish 98 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-dewlish) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Dewlish) - London → Dewlish 174 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-dewlish) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Dewlish) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Dewlish) 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 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. 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 72 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 170 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 565 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 570 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 Dewlish – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cdewlish&title=Dewlish&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fdewlish), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Dewlish - [Milborne St Andrew](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milborne-st-andrew) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 2.9 km - [Cheselbourne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cheselbourne) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 900 m - [Athelhampton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/athelhampton) settlement in Athelhampton and Puddletown, Dorset, England 4 km - [Aller](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aller) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.3 km [The place page for Dewlish](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/dewlish) [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/dewlish, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt