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 is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour and the A350, four miles southeast of Blandford Forum.
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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.
- 01St 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 - 02Church 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 - 03Church 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 - 04Tarrant Abbey
Tarrant Abbey was a Cistercian nunnery in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England.
1.2 km · abbey in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, UK · Wikipedia
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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 → Spetisbury78 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £9–12
- London → Spetisbury159 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £16–22
- Cardiff → Spetisbury104 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £15–20
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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 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.
- 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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Next door to Spetisbury
- Tarrant Keynestonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3 km
- Charlton Marshallvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.7 km
- Shapwickvillage and civil parish in east Dorset, England2.7 km
- Langton Long Blandfordvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.8 km
- Tarrant Crawfordvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom1.7 km