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Piddletrenthide

Piddletrenthide is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset.

Piddletrenthide
Piddletrenthide · Benedict M. Masaa
The place

Piddletrenthide is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The village lies on the small River Piddle in a valley on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs, 8 miles (13 km) north of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the small village of Plush to the northeast and the hamlet of White Lackington to the south—had 323 dwellings, 290 households and a population of 647.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Piddletrenthide

3 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
    Cerne Abbas Giant

    The Cerne Abbas Giant, or Cerne Giant, is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas, in Dorset, England. It is currently owned by the National Trust, and listed as a scheduled monument of England.

    4 km · hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cerne Abbey

    Cerne Abbey was a Benedictine monastery founded in 987 in the town now called Cerne Abbas, Dorset, by Æthelmær the Stout.

    3.9 km · Historic Benedictine abbey and private estate in Cerne Abbas, Dorset · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints Church, Nether Cerne

    All Saints Church in Nether Cerne, Dorset, England was built in the late 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.8 km · church in Nether Cerne, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Piddletrenthide

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 68 km · Cardiff (CWL), 92 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 156 km
  • Bristol → Piddletrenthide
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Piddletrenthide
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £16–21
  • London → Piddletrenthide
    177 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Piddletrenthide

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 Piddletrenthide. 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

    80 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    163 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    561 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    563 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    576 km

If you know how people move in Piddletrenthide – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Piddletrenthide

  • Piddlehintonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Nether Cernehamlet and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Alton Pancrasvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.3 km
  • Plushvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.7 km