--- title: "Powerstock – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Powerstock, United Kingdom: Powerstock is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, situated in a steep valley on the edge of the Dorset…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/powerstock" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/powerstock.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Powerstock_Cricket.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled" --- Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Powerstock Powerstock is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, situated in a steep valley on the edge of the Dorset Downs, 5 miles (8 km) north-east of the market town of Bridport. ![Powerstock](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Powerstock_Cricket.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) Powerstock · Ihatemoths The place Powerstock is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, situated in a steep valley on the edge of the Dorset Downs, 5 miles (8 km) north-east of the market town of Bridport. The civil parish includes the village of West Milton to the west and the summit and northern slopes of Eggardon Hill to the south-east. Powerstock village contains many cottages and two inns: The Three Horseshoes near the church and The Marquis of Lorne Inn on the other side of the valley in a small hamlet called Nettlecombe. The small Mangerton River runs through the valley. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerstock), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Powerstock 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. All Saints' Church, Mapperton All Saints' Church is a private church, formerly belonging to the Church of England, in Mapperton, Dorset, England. The church is believed to have 12th century origins, with later additions and rebuilds. 3.7 km · private church in Mapperton, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Mapperton) 2. Christ Church, Melplash Christ Church is a Church of England church in Melplash, Dorset, England. It was built in 1845–46 to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey and has been a Grade II\* listed building since 1984. 3.5 km · church in Melplash, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church,_Melplash) 3. Eggardon Hill Eggardon Hill is a prehistoric hillfort on a hill in Dorset, England. It is located on chalk uplands approximately four miles to the east of the town of Bridport. 2.9 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggardon_Hill) 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 Powerstock **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 69 km · Cardiff (CWL), 84 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 174 km\ **Stations:** Powerstock railway station, 1 km\ - Bristol → Powerstock 77 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-powerstock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Powerstock) - Cardiff → Powerstock 87 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £15–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-powerstock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Powerstock) - London → Powerstock 197 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-powerstock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Powerstock) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Powerstock) 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 Powerstock 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 Powerstock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. 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 98 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 146 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 549 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 559 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 594 km If you know how people move in Powerstock – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpowerstock&title=Powerstock&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpowerstock), and the note gets an entry. 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