Stalbridge
Stalbridge is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, near the border with Somerset.
Stalbridge is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, near the border with Somerset. In the 2021 census the civil parish—which includes the hamlets of Stalbridge Weston, and Thornhill—had 1,224 households and a population of 2,668. The nearest towns are Sturminster Newton, four miles southeast, Sherborne, 6 mi (10 km) west, and Shaftesbury, 7 mi (11 km) northeast. Stalbridge is situated on the A357 on a low limestone ridge, one mile west of the River Stour. It officially became a town in April 1992.
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Worth seeing in and around Stalbridge
3 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 Mary, Abbas and Templecombe
The Anglican Church of St Mary at Templecombe, within the English county of Somerset, was built in the 12th century and is a Grade II* listed building. The parish is part of the benefice of Abbas and Templecombe, Henstridge and Horsington within the archdeaconry of Wells.
5.5 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Nicholas
The Church of St Nicholas in Henstridge, Somerset, England was built in the 12th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.3 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Stock Gaylard House
Stock Gaylard House is a country house near Lydlinch, and about 4 miles west of Sturminster Newton, in Dorset, England. It is Grade II* listed.
5 km · country house in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stalbridge
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Cardiff (CWL), 83 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 145 km
- Stations
- Templecombe railway station, 5.4 km · Henstridge Airfield, 3.1 km · Church of St John the Evangelist, Milborne Port, 5.9 km · Ven House, 5.5 km · Town Hall, 5.8 km
- Bristol → Stalbridge57 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £7–9
- Cardiff → Stalbridge81 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £12–16
- London → Stalbridge168 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · £18–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Stalbridge
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 Stalbridge. 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.
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Stalbridge is 57 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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