--- title: "Folke – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Folke, United Kingdom: Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km)…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/folke" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/folke.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Villa_Folkvang_June_2025_01.jpg/1920px-Villa_Folkvang_June_2025_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Folke Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Sherborne. ![Folke](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Villa_Folkvang_June_2025_01.jpg/1920px-Villa_Folkvang_June_2025_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Folke · ArildV The place Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Sherborne. The parish has an area of 2,120 acres (8.6 km2) and is made of the villages of Folke and Alweston, and the hamlet of Bishops Down. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Folke 5 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. Sherborne Abbey Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset. 3.7 km · church building in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherborne_Abbey) 2. Sherborne Castle Sherborne Castle is a 16th-century Tudor mansion located southeast of Sherborne in Dorset, England, within the parish of Castleton. Originally built by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, and extended in the 1620s, it stands in a 1,200-acre park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre Digby estate. 3.1 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Sherborne, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherborne_Castle) 3. Sherborne House, Dorset Sherborne House is a Grade I listed building in Newland, Sherborne, Dorset, England. 4 km · Grade I listed English country house in Sherborne, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherborne_House,_Dorset) 4. Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul St Peter and St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in Caundle Marsh, Dorset, England. It was designed by Robert Howard Shout and built in 1856–57. 1.9 km · church building in Caundle Marsh, West Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter_and_St_Paul%27s_Church,_Caundle_Marsh) 5. Sherborne Museum Sherborne Museum is an independent, community-run museum located in the centre of Sherborne, Dorset. It is housed in the Abbey Gatehouse, a Grade II listed building situated on Church Lane, a pedestrianised thoroughfare connecting the town's market place with Sherborne Abbey. 3.6 km · museum in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherborne_Museum) 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 Folke **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 54 km · Cardiff (CWL), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 154 km\ **Stations:** Sherborne railway station, 3.3 km\ - Bristol → Folke 60 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-folke) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Folke) - Cardiff → Folke 79 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-folke) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Folke) - London → Folke 177 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-folke) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Folke) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Folke) 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 Folke 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 Folke. 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 87 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 155 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 547 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 552 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 573 km If you know how people move in Folke – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cfolke&title=Folke&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ffolke), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Folke - [Sherborne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sherborne) town and civil parish in Dorset, England 4 km - [Holnest](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/holnest) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 3.9 km - [Longburton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/longburton) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 1.3 km - [Caundle Marsh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caundle-marsh) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.8 km - [Haydon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/haydon) village and civil parish in Dorset, England 2.6 km - [Castleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/castleton) civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.4 km [The place page for Folke](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/folke) [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/folke, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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