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Langton Herring

Langton Herring is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England.

Langton Herring
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The place

Langton Herring is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies about 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west of the coastal resort town of Weymouth. It is "prudently set on a ridge above the Fleet", the Fleet being a brackish lagoon behind Chesil Beach. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 120. In the 2011 census the population of the parish combined with the small parish of Fleet to the south was 240.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Langton Herring

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.

  1. 01
    Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England church in Fleet, Dorset, England. It was built in 1827–29, replacing an earlier parish church which was partially destroyed during the Great Storm of 1824.

    2.8 km · church in Fleet, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chapel Of St Bartholomew

    St Bartholomew's Chapel is a Church of England chapel in Corton, near Weymouth, Dorset, England. The chapel has early 13th century origins, with later rebuilds and a restoration of 1897.

    3.7 km · Chapel in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Peter's Church, Portesham

    St Peter's Church is an Anglican church, the parish church in the village of Portesham, Dorset. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Portesham, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Old Parish Church

    Fleet Old Church is a Church of England mortuary chapel in Fleet, Dorset, England. It was formerly the village's parish church until its partial destruction in the Great Storm of 1824.

    3.3 km · church in Fleet, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parish Church of St Peter

    St Peter's Church is a Grade II listed church in the village of Langton Herring, Dorset, England. The church stands behind The Elm Tree Inn public house.

    100 m · church building in Langton Herring, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Moonfleet Manor

    Moonfleet Manor Hotel is a hotel and former manor house in Fleet, Dorset, England. With 17th century origins, much of the house dates to the 18th and 19th centuries.

    2 km · English country house in Fleet, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Q17533492

    Waddon Manor is a grade I listed country house in Portesham, Dorset. An original house on the site was built by Bullen Rymes in around 1650, but the present house was built by Henry Chafin in around 1700.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed building in Dorset, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Langton Herring

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 83 km · Cardiff (CWL), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 173 km
  • Bristol → Langton Herring
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £10–14
  • Cardiff → Langton Herring
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £18–24
  • London → Langton Herring
    195 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Langton Herring

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDespite its history as a cross-Channel ferry port, these days the furthest you can get on a passenger vessel from Weymouth is Portland; ships from the Channel Islands and France dock at Poole.
  • Get inServices to Poole from the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, as well as Cherbourg in Normandy and Saint-Malo in Brittany by fast or traditional ferry are provided by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
  • Go nextIsle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone.

From Wikivoyage: Weymouth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    88 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    160 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    564 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    575 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    593 km

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Around it

Next door to Langton Herring

  • Chickerelltown and civil parish in Dorset, England3.6 km
  • Porteshamvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.4 km
  • Fleetvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England3 km
  • Buckland Ripersvillage in Dorset, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Coryateshamlet in Portesham, Dorset, England3.3 km