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Milton Abbas

Milton Abbas is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, lying around 5 miles southwest of Blandford Forum.

Milton Abbas
Milton Abbas · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Milton Abbas is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, lying around 5 miles southwest of Blandford Forum. In the 2021 census the civil parish had a population of 729.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Milton Abbas

One place 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
    Milton Abbey

    Milton Abbey School is a private school for day and boarding pupils in the village of Milton Abbas, near Blandford Forum in Dorset, in South West England. It has 224 pupils as of September 2023, in five houses: Athelstan, Damer, Hambro, Huighe's and Tregonwell.

    1 km · school building, formerly a country house, in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Milton Abbas

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 70 km · Cardiff (CWL), 99 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 146 km
  • Bristol → Milton Abbas
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Milton Abbas
    97 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £15–21
  • London → Milton Abbas
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Milton Abbas

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 Milton Abbas. 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

    70 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    172 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    563 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    566 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    571 km

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