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Spetisbury

Spetisbury is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour and the A350, four miles southeast of Blandford Forum.

Spetisbury
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The place

Spetisbury is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour and the A350, four miles southeast of Blandford Forum.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Spetisbury

4 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
    St Mary the Virgin, Tarrant Crawford

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    1.5 km · church in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary

    Church of Mary is a Grade I listed church in Almer, Dorset, England. It became a listed building on 18 March 1955.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Almer, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is a Church of England parish church in Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1852–53, but the tower is 15th-century.

    2.1 km · church in Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tarrant Abbey

    Tarrant Abbey was a Cistercian nunnery in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England.

    1.2 km · abbey in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, 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.

Go there

Getting to Spetisbury

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 75 km · Cardiff (CWL), 106 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 137 km
Stations
Charlton Marshall Halt railway station, 2.2 km · Spetisbury railway station, 300 m
  • Bristol → Spetisbury
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £9–12
  • London → Spetisbury
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £16–22
  • Cardiff → Spetisbury
    104 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Spetisbury

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 Spetisbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    60 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    182 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    557 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    580 km

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

Around it

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