Shitterton
Shitterton is a hamlet in Bere Regis, Dorset, England.
Shitterton is a hamlet in Bere Regis, Dorset, England. It includes a collection of historic thatched buildings dating back to the 18th century and earlier. Its name dates back at least to the eleventh century and means "farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer". Shitterton has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names because it has the English profanity "shit" in its name.
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Getting to Shitterton
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 78 km · Cardiff (CWL), 106 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 147 km
- Bristol → Shitterton82 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–13
- Cardiff → Shitterton105 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–21
- London → Shitterton169 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £17–23
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Shitterton
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 Shitterton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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