--- title: "North Poorton – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "North Poorton, United Kingdom: North Poorton is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority area about 4.5…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-poorton" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/north-poorton.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Hamlet in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # North Poorton North Poorton is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority area about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northeast of Bridport. The place North Poorton is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority area about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northeast of Bridport. Dorset County Council estimate the parish had a population of 20 in 2013. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Poorton), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around North Poorton 2 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. All Saints' Church, Mapperton All Saints' Church is a private church, formerly belonging to the Church of England, in Mapperton, Dorset, England. The church is believed to have 12th century origins, with later additions and rebuilds. 2.2 km · private church in Mapperton, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Mapperton) 2. Christ Church, Melplash Christ Church is a Church of England church in Melplash, Dorset, England. It was built in 1845–46 to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey and has been a Grade II\* listed building since 1984. 3.5 km · church in Melplash, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church,_Melplash) 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 North Poorton **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 67 km · Cardiff (CWL), 83 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 173 km\ **Stations:** Powerstock railway station, 2.8 km\ - Bristol → North Poorton 75 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-north-poorton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=North+Poorton) - Cardiff → North Poorton 85 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-north-poorton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=North+Poorton) - London → North Poorton 196 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £21–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-north-poorton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=North+Poorton) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=North%20Poorton) 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 North Poorton 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 North Poorton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. 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 98 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 146 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 548 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 558 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 593 km If you know how people move in North Poorton – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cnorth-poorton&title=North+Poorton&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fnorth-poorton), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to North Poorton - [Powerstock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/powerstock) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2 km - [Hooke](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hooke) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 2.5 km - [Mapperton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mapperton) hamlet and civil parish in west Dorset, England, UK 1.8 km - [Melplash](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/melplash) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.3 km - [Toller Whelme](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/toller-whelme) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.4 km - [West Milton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-milton) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.3 km [The place page for North Poorton](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/north-poorton) [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/north-poorton, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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