--- title: "Kingston Russell – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Kingston Russell, United Kingdom: Kingston Russell is a settlement in the civil parish of Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, in the Dorset district, in the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kingston-russell" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kingston-russell.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Tomb_chamber%2C_St_Mary%27s%2C_Winterborne_Stickland.jpg/1920px-Tomb_chamber%2C_St_Mary%27s%2C_Winterborne_Stickland.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Settlement in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Tomb_chamber%2C_St_Mary%27s%2C_Winterborne_Stickland.jpg/1920px-Tomb_chamber%2C_St_Mary%27s%2C_Winterborne_Stickland.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Kingston Russell · Ydigresse 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Russell), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Lot_Barrow_Cemetery) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael_and_All_Angels_Church,_Littlebredy) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Russell_House) 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. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-kingston-russell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Kingston+Russell) - Cardiff → Kingston Russell 94 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-kingston-russell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Kingston+Russell) - London → Kingston Russell 193 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-kingston-russell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Kingston+Russell) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Kingston%20Russell) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 91 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 154 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 557 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 566 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 591 km If you know how people move in Kingston Russell – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ckingston-russell&title=Kingston+Russell&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fkingston-russell), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Kingston Russell - [Littlebredy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/littlebredy) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.5 km - [Winterbourne Abbas](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterbourne-abbas) village and civil parish in Dorset, UK 3.8 km - [Litton Cheney](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/litton-cheney) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.1 km - [Long Bredy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/long-bredy) village in Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, Dorset, England, UK 1.8 km - [Compton Valence](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/compton-valence) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.2 km - [West Compton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-compton) village and civil parish in West Dorset, Dorset, England 3.3 km [The place page for Kingston Russell](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/kingston-russell) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kingston-russell, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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