Sturminster Newton

Worth seeing in and around Sturminster Newton

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
   Church of St Mary

   St Mary's Church is a Church of England Parish Church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset. The present church dates from a rebuild in 1486 by the abbots of Glastonbury.

   300 m · historic church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Sturminster Newton Castle

   Sturminster Newton Castle is a site consisting of the remains of a medieval manor house within an Iron Age hillfort, near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England. The ruins are privately owned.

   700 m · fortified manor house, formerly a hillfort, in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Fiddleford Manor

   Fiddleford Manor is a medieval manor house located near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. It is thought to have been originally built around 1370 for William Latimer, the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, after the manor passed to him in 1355.

   1.6 km · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Parish Church of St Andrew

   St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, and in the Diocese of Salisbury. It is in the Okeford Benefice, a group of four parishes in the Blackmore Vale.

   4 km · church in Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Sturminster Newton

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 58 km · Cardiff (CWL), 89 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 142 km

Stations

Sturminster Newton railway station, 100 m

• Bristol → Sturminster Newton

  62 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £8–10
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• Cardiff → Sturminster Newton

  87 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £14–18
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• London → Sturminster Newton

  165 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £17–23
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