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Littlebredy

Littlebredy is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) west of the county town Dorchester.

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The place

Littlebredy is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited at the head of the valley of the small River Bride, surrounded by wooded chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. The parish contains the Valley of Stones National Nature Reserve and is in an area rich with evidence of early human occupation. In the 2011 census it had a population of 121.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Littlebredy

6 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
    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.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed church in Portesham, Dorset, England, UK · 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.

    200 m · 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.

    1.8 km · building in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    1.7 km · archaeological site in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parish Church of St Nicholas

    St Nicholas' Church is a Church of England church in Abbotsbury, Dorset, England. The earliest parts of the church date to the 14th century origin, with later alterations and extensions over the following centuries, including the construction of the west tower and north chapel in the 15th century.

    4 km · church in Abbotsbury, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hardy Monument

    The Hardy Monument is a 72-foot-high monument on the summit of Black Down near Portesham in Dorset. It was erected in 1844 by public subscription in memory of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, flag captain of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.

    2.7 km · monument in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Littlebredy

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 77 km · Cardiff (CWL), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 171 km
  • Bristol → Littlebredy
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
  • Cardiff → Littlebredy
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £17–23
  • London → Littlebredy
    194 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Littlebredy

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 Littlebredy. 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

    90 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    156 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    559 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    568 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    591 km

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