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Ibberton

Ibberton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.

Ibberton
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The place

Ibberton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale under the scarp face of the Dorset Downs, five miles south of Sturminster Newton and 7 miles west of Blandford Forum. The parish covers 1,382 acres extending over the chalk downs that lie to the south and includes the hamlets of Leigh, and Kitford. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 101, a reduction from 134 in 2001.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ibberton

4 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
    Bulbarrow Hill

    Bulbarrow Hill is a 274 metres hill near Woolland, five miles west of Blandford Forum and ten miles north of Dorchester in Dorset, England. The chalk hill is part of the scarp of Dorset Downs, which form the western end of the Southern England Chalk Formation.

    2.9 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.6 km · church in Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish Church of St Eustace, Ibberton

    The Parish Church of St Eustace is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the village of Ibberton, Dorset. It stands to the south of the village, on a steep hillside.

    300 m · church in Ibberton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Aldhelm's Church, Belchalwell

    St Aldhelm's Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the village of Belchalwell, Dorset. It is in the ecclesiastical parish of Belchalwell, which is part of the Benefice of Hazelbury Bryan and the Hillside Parishes.

    2.1 km · church in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Ibberton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 64 km · Cardiff (CWL), 93 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 145 km
  • Bristol → Ibberton
    68 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £9–11
  • Cardiff → Ibberton
    91 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £15–20
  • London → Ibberton
    6 km · quickest by road, 30 min · £0.5–1
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ibberton

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 Ibberton. 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

    73 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    169 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    556 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    566 km

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

Around it

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