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Worth seeing in and around Manston

4 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
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England Parish Church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset. The present church dates from a rebuild in 1486 by the abbots of Glastonbury.

    3.8 km · historic church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Thomas

    St Thomas's Church is a Grade II listed building in East Orchard, Dorset. The church dates from 1859.

    2.3 km · church in East Orchard, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fiddleford Manor

    Fiddleford Manor is a medieval manor house located near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. It is thought to have been originally built around 1370 for William Latimer, the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, after the manor passed to him in 1355.

    3.4 km · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of Unknown Dedication

    St Luke's Church is a Church of England church in West Orchard, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1876–77 to the designs of Thomas Henry Wyatt, but the chancel is 15th-century.

    1.1 km · church building in West Orchard, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Manston

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 57 km · Cardiff (CWL), 90 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 139 km
Stations
Sturminster Newton railway station, 3.6 km
  • Bristol → Manston
    61 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £7–10
  • Cardiff → Manston
    87 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £13–18
  • London → Manston
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £17–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for Manston

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.

From Wikivoyage: Dorset, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    74 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    170 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    549 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    558 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    564 km

If you know how people move in Manston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Manston

  • Marnhullvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km
  • East Orchardvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.3 km
  • Hinton St Maryvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK2.7 km
  • Hammoonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK2.2 km
  • West Orchardvillage in Dorset, England, UK1.1 km
  • Todbervillage in Dorset, England, UK3.9 km