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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom

Puncknowle

Puncknowle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated on the southern slopes of the Bride Valley approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Bridport and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Chesil Beach on the Jurassic Coast.

The place

Puncknowle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated on the southern slopes of the Bride Valley approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Bridport and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Chesil Beach on the Jurassic Coast. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the coastal settlement of West Bexington to the south—had a population of 466.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Puncknowle

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. 01
    Abbotsbury Castle

    Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in south west Dorset, England, situated on Wears Hill above the village of Abbotsbury, seven miles west of Dorchester and the famous hill fort at Maiden Castle. It is situated on a high chalk hill overlooking the English Channel, and in its day was the front line of defence from invasion.

    2.9 km · Iron Age hill fort in south west Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kingston Russell House

    Kingston Russell House is a large mansion house and manor near Long Bredy in Dorset, England, west of Dorchester. The present house dates from the late 17th century but in 1730 was clad in a white Georgian stone facade.

    3.7 km · building in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish Church of Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England church in Swyre, Dorset, England. The oldest part of the church has been dated to the early 15th century, with a partial rebuild and additions later made in the 19th century.

    900 m · Grade I listed church in Swyre, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Puncknowle

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 76 km · Cardiff (CWL), 92 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 176 km
  • Bristol → Puncknowle
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–14
  • Cardiff → Puncknowle
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £17–22
  • London → Puncknowle
    199 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Puncknowle

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 Puncknowle. 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. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    95 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    151 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    555 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    567 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    596 km

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Around it

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  • Litton Cheneyvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Swyrevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom900 m
  • Chilcombehamlet and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • West Bexingtonvillage in Dorset, England, UK2 km