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Piddlehinton

Piddlehinton is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated in the Piddle valley 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Dorchester.

Piddlehinton
Piddlehinton · SuzanneKn at en.wikipedia
The place

Piddlehinton is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated in the Piddle valley 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 403. Piddlehinton formerly constituted a liberty containing only the parish itself.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Piddlehinton

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
    Waterston Manor

    Waterston Manor, Puddletown, Dorset is a manor house with 17th century origins, that was extensively rebuilt after a fire in 1863 and remodelled in 1911. The manor was the inspiration for Weatherbury Farm in Thomas Hardy's novel, Far from the Madding Crowd.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed manor house in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Piddlehinton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 71 km · Cardiff (CWL), 95 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 156 km
  • Bristol → Piddlehinton
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–13
  • Cardiff → Piddlehinton
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £16–21
  • London → Piddlehinton
    179 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £18–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Piddlehinton

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 Piddlehinton. 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

    78 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    165 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    564 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    576 km

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Around it

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