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Sutton Waldron

Sutton Waldron is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the A350 road between Iwerne Minster and Fontmell Magna, in the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of Cranborne Chase, 8 miles north of Blandford Forum and 5 miles south of Shaftesbury.

Sutton Waldron
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The place

Sutton Waldron is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the A350 road between Iwerne Minster and Fontmell Magna, in the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of Cranborne Chase, 8 miles north of Blandford Forum and 5 miles south of Shaftesbury. In the 2011 census the parish had 93 dwellings, 87 households and a population of 200.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sutton Waldron

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.

  1. 01
    Church of Unknown Dedication

    St Luke's Church is a Church of England church in West Orchard, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1876–77 to the designs of Thomas Henry Wyatt, but the chancel is 15th-century.

    3.8 km · church building in West Orchard, North Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Thomas

    St Thomas's Church is a Grade II listed building in East Orchard, Dorset. The church dates from 1859.

    3.4 km · church in East Orchard, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hambledon Hill

    Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, in the Blackmore Vale five miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The hill itself is a chalk outcrop, on the southwestern corner of Cranborne Chase, separated from the Dorset Downs by the River Stour.

    3.6 km · prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Sutton Waldron

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 61 km · Cardiff (CWL), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 135 km
Stations
Compton Abbas Airfield, 3.9 km
  • Bristol → Sutton Waldron
    63 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £7–10
  • Cardiff → Sutton Waldron
    91 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £13–18
  • London → Sutton Waldron
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sutton Waldron

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 Sutton Waldron. 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

    69 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    175 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    551 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    554 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    569 km

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