--- title: "Shitterton – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Shitterton, United Kingdom: Shitterton is a hamlet in Bere Regis, Dorset, England. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shitterton" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shitterton.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/The_Shitterton_Sign.jpg" --- Hamlet in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Shitterton Shitterton is a hamlet in Bere Regis, Dorset, England. ![Shitterton](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/The_Shitterton_Sign.jpg) Shitterton · Wikimedia Commons The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitterton), CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Shitterton **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 78 km · Cardiff (CWL), 106 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 147 km\ - Bristol → Shitterton 82 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-shitterton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Shitterton) - Cardiff → Shitterton 105 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-shitterton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Shitterton) - London → Shitterton 169 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-shitterton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Shitterton) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Shitterton) 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 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. 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 65 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 177 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 567 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 570 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 577 km If you know how people move in Shitterton – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cshitterton&title=Shitterton&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fshitterton), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Shitterton - [Bere Regis](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bere-regis) village and civil parish in Dorset, England 600 m - [Affpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/affpuddle) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.6 km - [Winterborne Kingston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterborne-kingston) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 2.4 km - [Turners Puddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/turners-puddle) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.4 km - [Briantspuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/briantspuddle) village in Dorset, England, UK 3 km [The place page for Shitterton](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/shitterton) [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/shitterton, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt