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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

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
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    All 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
  2. 02
    Grimstone 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
  3. 03
    Church 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 → Godmanstone
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Godmanstone
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £16–21
  • London → Godmanstone
    183 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–26
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.

From Wikivoyage: 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. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    83 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    160 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    561 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    563 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    580 km

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

Around it

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