--- title: "Puncknowle – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Puncknowle, United Kingdom: Puncknowle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated on the southern slopes of the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puncknowle" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puncknowle.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puncknowle), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbotsbury_Castle) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Russell_House) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Swyre) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-puncknowle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Puncknowle) - Cardiff → Puncknowle 95 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £17–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-puncknowle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Puncknowle) - London → Puncknowle 199 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-puncknowle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Puncknowle) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Puncknowle) 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 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 95 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 151 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 555 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 567 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 596 km If you know how people move in Puncknowle – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpuncknowle&title=Puncknowle&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpuncknowle), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Puncknowle - [Long Bredy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/long-bredy) village in Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, Dorset, England, UK 3.7 km - [Litton Cheney](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/litton-cheney) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.4 km - [Swyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/swyre) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 900 m - [Chilcombe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chilcombe) hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.5 km - [West Bexington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-bexington) village in Dorset, England, UK 2 km [The place page for Puncknowle](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/puncknowle) [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/puncknowle, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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