--- title: "Puddletown – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Puddletown, United Kingdom: village. Nearby: Dewlish House, Church of Saint John, Tolpuddle, Thomas Hardy's Cottage. Every way there from the planner, and…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puddletown" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puddletown.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village · United Kingdom · England # 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. Dewlish House Grade I listed building in West Dorset, England, UK 3.3 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewlish_House) 2. Church of Saint John, Tolpuddle Grade I listed building in Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 3.7 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tolpuddle) 3. Thomas Hardy's Cottage Cob and thatch building in Stinsford, Dorset, England, UK 3.3 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy%27s_Cottage) 4. Waterston Manor Grade I listed manor house in West Dorset, England, UK 2 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterston_Manor) 5. Church of Saint John the Evangelist Church building in Tincleton, West Dorset, England, UK 3.5 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tincleton) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-puddletown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Puddletown) - Cardiff → Puddletown 100 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-puddletown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Puddletown) - London → Puddletown 177 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-puddletown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Puddletown) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Puddletown) 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 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 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 74 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 169 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 568 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 570 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 574 km If you know how people move in Puddletown – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpuddletown&title=Puddletown&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpuddletown), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Puddletown - [Tolpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tolpuddle) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 3.8 km - [Tincleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tincleton) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.1 km - [Dewlish](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dewlish) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.9 km - [Cheselbourne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cheselbourne) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.9 km - [Burleston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burleston) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 2.4 km - [Athelhampton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/athelhampton) settlement in Athelhampton and Puddletown, Dorset, England 1.7 km [The place page for Puddletown](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/puddletown) [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/puddletown, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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