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Dorstone

Dorstone is a village and civil parish within the Golden Valley, Herefordshire, England.

Dorstone
Dorstone · Alistair Phillips
The place

Dorstone is a village and civil parish within the Golden Valley, Herefordshire, England. There is a church and public house with restaurant. The Golden Valley area offers hillwalking and horseback riding countryside and is noted for its scenery. It is within the catchment area of Fairfield secondary school. In 2011 the parish had a population of 401.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dorstone

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
    Dorstone Castle

    Dorstone Castle was in the village of Dorstone in Herefordshire, England, located 6 miles to the east of Hay-on-Wye.

    300 m · motte-and-bailey castle in Dorstone, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Snodhill Castle

    Snodhill Castle is a ruined motte-and-bailey castle, about 1 mi south of the village of Dorstone in west Herefordshire, England. It is recognized as one of the major castles of the Welsh Marches.

    1.6 km · castle in Peterchurch, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Dorstone

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 79 km · Bristol (BRS), 79 km · Birmingham (BHX), 95 km
  • Cardiff → Dorstone
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £8–11
  • Bristol → Dorstone
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Dorstone
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dorstone

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 Dorstone. 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
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    152 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    194 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    414 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    450 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    469 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dorstone

  • Bredwardinevillage and civil parish in Herefordshire, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Moccasvillage in Herefordshire, England, UK4 km