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Kingston Russell

Kingston Russell is a settlement in the civil parish of Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, in the Dorset district, in the county of Dorset, England, 7 miles (11 km) west of Dorchester.

Kingston Russell
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The place

Kingston Russell is a settlement in the civil parish of Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, in the Dorset district, in the county of Dorset, England, 7 miles (11 km) west of Dorchester. In 2001 the parish had a population of 35. The parish bordered Compton Valence, Littlebredy, Long Bredy and Winterbourne Abbas. Kingston Russell shared a parish council with Long Bredy. On 1 April 2024 the parish was abolished and merged with Long Bredy to form "Long Bredy and Kingston Russell". From 1974 to 2019 it was in West Dorset district.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kingston Russell

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
    Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows

    Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery is an archaeological site, a group of Bronze Age round barrows, near the A35 road about 2 miles west of Winterbourne Abbas, in Dorset, England. It is an English Heritage site.

    1 km · archaeological site in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels

    St Michael and All Angels Church is a Grade II listed Anglican church in the village of Littlebredy, Dorset, England.

    2.4 km · church in Littlebredy, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kingston Russell House

    Kingston Russell House is a large mansion house and manor near Long Bredy in Dorset, England, west of Dorchester. The present house dates from the late 17th century but in 1730 was clad in a white Georgian stone facade.

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

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Getting to Kingston Russell

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 74 km · Cardiff (CWL), 92 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 171 km
  • Bristol → Kingston Russell
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Kingston Russell
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £16–21
  • London → Kingston Russell
    193 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kingston Russell

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 Kingston Russell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    91 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    154 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    557 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    566 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    591 km

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