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Hammoon

Hammoon is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, sited on a river terrace of alluvial silt by the River Stour, about two miles east of the small town of Sturminster Newton.

The place

Hammoon is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, sited on a river terrace of alluvial silt by the River Stour, about two miles east of the small town of Sturminster Newton. Its name is derived from the Old English ham, meaning dwelling, and the surname of the Norman lord of the manor. In 2001 the parish had 19 households and a population of 49. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 40.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hammoon

7 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
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England Parish Church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset. The present church dates from a rebuild in 1486 by the abbots of Glastonbury.

    3 km · historic church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sturminster Newton Castle

    Sturminster Newton Castle is a site consisting of the remains of a medieval manor house within an Iron Age hillfort, near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England. The ruins are privately owned.

    3.5 km · fortified manor house, formerly a hillfort, in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of Unknown Dedication

    St Luke's Church is a Church of England church in West Orchard, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1876–77 to the designs of Thomas Henry Wyatt, but the chancel is 15th-century.

    2 km · church building in West Orchard, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hambledon Hill

    Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk outcrop, on the southwestern corner of Cranborne Chase, separated from the Dorset Downs by the River Stour.

    3.3 km · prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Thomas

    St Thomas's Church is a Grade II listed building in East Orchard, Dorset. The church dates from 1859.

    3.7 km · church in East Orchard, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fiddleford Manor

    Fiddleford Manor is a medieval manor house located near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. It is thought to have been originally built around 1370 for William Latimer, the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, after the manor passed to him in 1355.

    1.9 km · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Parish Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, and in the Diocese of Salisbury. It is in the Okeford Benefice, a group of four parishes in the Blackmore Vale.

    3.9 km · church in Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Hammoon

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 59 km · Cardiff (CWL), 92 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 139 km
Stations
Shillingstone railway station, 3 km · Sturminster Newton railway station, 3 km
  • Bristol → Hammoon
    63 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £8–10
  • Cardiff → Hammoon
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £14–18
  • London → Hammoon
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hammoon

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 Hammoon. 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

    72 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    171 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    551 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    559 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    566 km

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