Shillingstone

Worth seeing in and around Shillingstone

7 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
   Hod Hill

   Hod Hill is a large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, 3 miles north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The fort sits on a 143 m chalk hill of the same name that lies between the adjacent Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase.

   3.1 km · large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Stepleton House

   Stepleton House is a 17th-century country house in the parish of Iwerne Stepleton in Dorset, situated about 5 kilometres north of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

   3.8 km · Grade I listed house in North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Hambledon Hill

   Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk outcrop, on the southwestern corner of Cranborne Chase, separated from the Dorset Downs by the River Stour.

   2.5 km · prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Aldhelm's Church, Belchalwell

   St Aldhelm's Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the village of Belchalwell, Dorset. It is in the ecclesiastical parish of Belchalwell, which is part of the Benefice of Hazelbury Bryan and the Hillside Parishes.

   3.5 km · church in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Fiddleford Manor

   Fiddleford Manor is a medieval manor house located near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. It is thought to have been originally built around 1370 for William Latimer, the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, after the manor passed to him in 1355.

   3.4 km · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Shillingstone Quarry

   Shillingstone Quarry SSSI, Dorset is an 8.13 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England, notified in 1995.

   1.4 km · chalk quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Parish Church of St Andrew

   St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, and in the Diocese of Salisbury. It is in the Okeford Benefice, a group of four parishes in the Blackmore Vale.

   1.8 km · church in Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shillingstone

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 63 km · Cardiff (CWL), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 140 km

Stations

Shillingstone railway station, 500 m

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  67 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £8–11
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  92 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £14–19
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• London → Shillingstone

  163 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £17–22
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