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.
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.
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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.
- 01Church 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 - 02Sturminster 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 - 03Church 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 - 04Hambledon 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 - 05Church 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 - 06Fiddleford 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 - 07Parish 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 → Hammoon63 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £8–10
- Cardiff → Hammoon89 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £14–18
- London → Hammoon162 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £17–23
- 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 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.
- 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 Hammoon
- Sturminster Newtontown and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3 km
- Shillingstonevillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.4 km
- Child Okefordvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.5 km
- Hinton St Maryvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.5 km
- East Orchardvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km
- Okeford Fitzpainevillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.8 km