--- title: "Piddlehinton – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Piddlehinton, United Kingdom: Piddlehinton is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated in the Piddle valley 5 miles (8.0 km) north of…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/piddlehinton" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/piddlehinton.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Riverpiddle1.jpg/1920px-Riverpiddle1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Riverpiddle1.jpg/1920px-Riverpiddle1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piddlehinton), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterston_Manor) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-piddlehinton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Piddlehinton) - Cardiff → Piddlehinton 95 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-piddlehinton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Piddlehinton) - London → Piddlehinton 179 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-piddlehinton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Piddlehinton) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Piddlehinton) 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 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 in There are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries. From [Wikivoyage: Dorset](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 78 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 165 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 564 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 565 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 576 km If you know how people move in Piddlehinton – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpiddlehinton&title=Piddlehinton&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpiddlehinton), and the note gets an entry. 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