Silton
Silton is a small village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale four miles northwest of Gillingham.

Silton is a small village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale four miles northwest of Gillingham. In the 2011 census, the civil parish had 57 households and a population of 123.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Silton
5 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.
- 01Church of St George Langham
St George's Church is a Church of England church in Langham, Gillingham, Dorset, England. It was designed by Charles Ponting and built in 1921.
2.9 km · church building in Gillingham, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset
St Mary's Church is the parish church for the town of Gillingham in the Blackmore Vale in the north of Dorset. The church is in the Diocese of Salisbury in the Church of England, and part of the Anglican Communion.
3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Gillingham, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Lawrence
The Anglican Church of St Lawrence in Cucklington, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.1 km · church in Cucklington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Michael and All Angels
The Anglican Church of St Michael and All Angels in Penselwood, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.3 km · historic church in Penselwood, Somerset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Shanks House
Shanks House in Cucklington, Somerset, England is a Grade I listed building. The first written records of the house date from the middle of the 16th century.
3.9 km · Grade I listed building in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Silton
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 45 km · Cardiff (CWL), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 137 km
- Bristol → Silton48 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £6–8
- Cardiff → Silton76 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £12–16
- London → Silton41 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £5–7
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No local-transport research exists yet for Silton
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 Silton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Silton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Silton
Silton is 48 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Gillinghamtown and civil parish in Dorset, England3.9 km
- Bourtonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, UK1.9 km
- Zealsvillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Penselwoodvillage in Somerset, UK3.4 km
- Cucklingtonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.3 km
- Peacemarshsuburb in Gillingham, Dorset, England, UK3.2 km