--- title: "Langton Herring – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Langton Herring, United Kingdom: Langton Herring is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. Nearby: Parish Church of the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/langton-herring" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/langton-herring.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Praeexogyra_hebridica_01.jpg/1920px-Praeexogyra_hebridica_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Langton Herring Langton Herring is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. ![Langton Herring](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Praeexogyra_hebridica_01.jpg/1920px-Praeexogyra_hebridica_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Langton Herring · H. Zell 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton_Herring), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Fleet) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bartholomew%27s_Chapel,_Corton) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Portesham) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Old_Church) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Langton_Herring) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfleet_Manor_Hotel) 7. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waddon_Manor) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-langton-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Langton+Herring) - Cardiff → Langton Herring 104 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-langton-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Langton+Herring) - London → Langton Herring 195 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-langton-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Langton+Herring) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Langton%20Herring) 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 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 in Despite 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 in Services 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 next Isle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone. From [Wikivoyage: Weymouth](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 88 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 160 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 564 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 575 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 593 km If you know how people move in Langton Herring – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clangton-herring&title=Langton+Herring&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flangton-herring), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Langton Herring - [Chickerell](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chickerell) town and civil parish in Dorset, England 3.6 km - [Portesham](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/portesham) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.4 km - [Fleet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fleet) village and civil parish in Dorset, England 3 km - [Buckland Ripers](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/buckland-ripers) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.4 km - [Coryates](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coryates) hamlet in Portesham, Dorset, England 3.3 km [The place page for Langton Herring](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/langton-herring) [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/langton-herring, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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