Godmanstone
Godmanstone is a village and civil parish in Dorset in southern England, situated approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the county town Dorchester.

Godmanstone is a village and civil parish in Dorset in southern England, situated approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the county town Dorchester. Its name means "Godman's Farm" and it is sited by the River Cerne amongst chalk hills of the Dorset Downs.
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Worth seeing in and around Godmanstone
3 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.
- 01All Saints Church, Nether Cerne
All Saints Church in Nether Cerne, Dorset, England was built in the late 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1 km · church in Nether Cerne, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Grimstone Viaduct
Grimstone Viaduct is a railway bridge at Grimstone in Dorset, south-western England. It carries the Heart of Wessex Line over a road junction off the A37 road.
3.8 km · railway viaduct in Stratton, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church at Godmanstone, Dorset, England. The church has 12th century origins and is a Grade I listed building.
200 m · church in Godmanstone, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Godmanstone
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 70 km · Cardiff (CWL), 92 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 161 km
- Stations
- Grimstone and Frampton railway station, 3.9 km
- Bristol → Godmanstone76 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
- Cardiff → Godmanstone93 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £16–21
- London → Godmanstone183 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–26
- 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 Godmanstone
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 Godmanstone. 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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Next door to Godmanstone
- Nether Cernehamlet and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1 km
- Strattonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, United Kingdom3.2 km
- Charlton Downvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.7 km
- Dorset AONBDorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty2.7 km