Iwerne Courtney
Iwerne Courtney, also known as Shroton, is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset.
Iwerne Courtney, also known as Shroton, is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies approximately 4 miles north-west of Blandford Forum. It is sited by the small River Iwerne between Hambledon Hill to the south-west and the hills of Cranborne Chase to the east. In 2001 the parish had 187 households and a population of 400. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 410.
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Worth seeing in and around Iwerne Courtney
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.
- 01Hod Hill
Hod Hill is a large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, 3 miles north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The fort sits on a 143 m chalk hill of the same name that lies between the adjacent Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase.
2.2 km · large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England · Wikipedia - 02Stepleton House
Stepleton House is a 17th-century country house in the parish of Iwerne Stepleton in Dorset, situated about 5 kilometres north of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
1.5 km · Grade I listed house in North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hambledon 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.
1.5 km · prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Iwerne Courtney
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Cardiff (CWL), 96 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 136 km
- Stations
- Shillingstone railway station, 3.6 km · Stourpaine and Durweston railway station, 3.6 km
- Bristol → Iwerne Courtney66 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £8–10
- Cardiff → Iwerne Courtney93 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £14–18
- London → Iwerne Courtney159 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £17–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Iwerne Courtney
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 Iwerne Courtney. 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 Iwerne Courtney
- Shillingstonevillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK3.8 km
- Iwerne Minstervillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.7 km
- Child Okefordvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.5 km
- Stourpainevillage in Dorset, England, UK3.4 km
- Sutton Waldronvillage in North Dorset, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Hanfordvillage and civil parish in North Dorset, Dorset, England2.1 km