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Okeford Fitzpaine

Okeford Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated in the Blackmore Vale three miles south of the town of Sturminster Newton.

Okeford Fitzpaine
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The place

Okeford Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated in the Blackmore Vale three miles south of the town of Sturminster Newton. It is sited on a thin strip of greensand under the scarp face of the Dorset Downs. The parish includes the village of Belchalwell to the west and most of the hamlet of Fiddleford to the north, and at the 2021 census had a population of 1,000 people in 447 households.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Okeford Fitzpaine

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. 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.

    3.5 km · historic church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sturminster Newton Castle

    Sturminster Newton Castle is a site consisting of the remains of a medieval manor house within an Iron Age hillfort, near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England. The ruins are privately owned.

    3.3 km · fortified manor house, formerly a hillfort, in 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.

    2.6 km · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Shillingstone Quarry

    Shillingstone Quarry SSSI, Dorset is an 8.13 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England, notified in 1995.

    2.1 km · chalk quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parish Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, and in the Diocese of Salisbury. It is in the Okeford Benefice, a group of four parishes in the Blackmore Vale.

    200 m · church in Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parish Church of St Eustace, Ibberton

    The Parish Church of St Eustace is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the village of Ibberton, Dorset. It stands to the south of the village, on a steep hillside.

    3.8 km · church in Ibberton, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Aldhelm's Church, Belchalwell

    St Aldhelm's Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the village of Belchalwell, Dorset. It is in the ecclesiastical parish of Belchalwell, which is part of the Benefice of Hazelbury Bryan and the Hillside Parishes.

    1.8 km · church 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 Okeford Fitzpaine

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 62 km · Cardiff (CWL), 93 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 142 km
Stations
Sturminster Newton railway station, 3.7 km · Shillingstone railway station, 2 km
  • Bristol → Okeford Fitzpaine
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £8–11
  • Cardiff → Okeford Fitzpaine
    90 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £14–19
  • London → Okeford Fitzpaine
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £17–23
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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 Okeford Fitzpaine. 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
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    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    72 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    170 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    554 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    561 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    566 km

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Next door to Okeford Fitzpaine

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