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Silton

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

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The place

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.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Church 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
  2. 02
    St 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
  3. 03
    Church 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
  4. 04
    Church 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
  5. 05
    Shanks 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

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.

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Getting to Silton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 45 km · Cardiff (CWL), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 137 km
  • Bristol → Silton
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £6–8
  • Cardiff → Silton
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £12–16
  • London → Silton
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £5–7
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    165 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    536 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    554 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    556 km

If you know how people move in Silton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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