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Puddletown

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Puddletown

5 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
    Dewlish House

    Grade I listed building in West Dorset, England, UK

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of Saint John, Tolpuddle

    Grade I listed building in Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Thomas Hardy's Cottage

    Cob and thatch building in Stinsford, Dorset, England, UK

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Waterston Manor

    Grade I listed manor house in West Dorset, England, UK

    2 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of Saint John the Evangelist

    Church building in Tincleton, West Dorset, England, UK

    3.5 km · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Puddletown

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 75 km · Cardiff (CWL), 100 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 154 km
  • Bristol → Puddletown
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
  • Cardiff → Puddletown
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £16–21
  • London → Puddletown
    177 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Puddletown

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 Puddletown. 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

    74 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    169 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    568 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    570 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    574 km

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

Around it

Next door to Puddletown

  • Tolpuddlevillage in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK3.8 km
  • Tincletonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Dewlishvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Cheselbournevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Burlestonvillage in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK2.4 km
  • Athelhamptonsettlement in Athelhampton and Puddletown, Dorset, England1.7 km