--- title: "Piddletrenthide – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Piddletrenthide, United Kingdom: Piddletrenthide is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. Nearby: Cerne Abbas Giant, Cerne Abbey…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/piddletrenthide" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/piddletrenthide.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Kalulini_Boys_High_School_Main_Entrance.jpg/1920px-Kalulini_Boys_High_School_Main_Entrance.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Piddletrenthide Piddletrenthide is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. ![Piddletrenthide](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Kalulini_Boys_High_School_Main_Entrance.jpg/1920px-Kalulini_Boys_High_School_Main_Entrance.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piddletrenthide), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbey) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints_Church,_Nether_Cerne) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-piddletrenthide) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Piddletrenthide) - Cardiff → Piddletrenthide 92 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-piddletrenthide) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Piddletrenthide) - London → Piddletrenthide 177 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-piddletrenthide) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Piddletrenthide) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Piddletrenthide) 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 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 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 80 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 163 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 561 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 563 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 Piddletrenthide – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpiddletrenthide&title=Piddletrenthide&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpiddletrenthide), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Piddletrenthide - [Piddlehinton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/piddlehinton) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.1 km - [Nether Cerne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nether-cerne) hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.8 km - [Alton Pancras](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/alton-pancras) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.3 km - [Plush](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/plush) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.7 km [The place page for Piddletrenthide](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/piddletrenthide) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/piddletrenthide, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt