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Hamlet in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

# Poxwell

Poxwell is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England.

The place

Poxwell is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Weymouth. The current population of the parish is around 50.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poxwell), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Poxwell

**Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 84 km · Cardiff (CWL), 107 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 161 km\

- Bristol → Poxwell 90 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £11–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-poxwell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Poxwell)
- Cardiff → Poxwell 108 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-poxwell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Poxwell)
- London → Poxwell 183 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-poxwell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Poxwell)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Poxwell)

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 Poxwell

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 Poxwell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in Despite its history as a cross-Channel ferry port, these days the furthest you can get on a passenger vessel from Weymouth is Portland; ships from the Channel Islands and France dock at Poole.
- Get in Services to Poole from the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, as well as Cherbourg in Normandy and Saint-Malo in Brittany by fast or traditional ferry are provided by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
- Go next Isle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone.

From [Wikivoyage: Weymouth](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Weymouth), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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 75 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 172 km
3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 574 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 577 km
5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 581 km

If you know how people move in Poxwell – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpoxwell&title=Poxwell&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpoxwell), and the note gets an entry.

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