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 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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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.
- 01Waterston 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 → Piddlehinton77 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–13
- Cardiff → Piddlehinton95 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £16–21
- London → Piddlehinton179 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £18–25
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Get inThere are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
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- Piddletrenthidevillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, United Kingdom3.1 km