Tincleton
Tincleton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.
Tincleton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated near the River Frome, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) east of the county town Dorchester. The name of the village comes from the Old English "Tin la Ton", or "farm in a valley". In 2001 Tincleton had a population of 142. Dorset County Council's latest (2013) estimate of the parish population is 150.
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Worth seeing in and around Tincleton
2 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 Saint John, Tolpuddle
The Church of Saint John the Evangelist is a Church of England parish church in Tolpuddle, Dorset. The church is a Grade I listed building.
3.2 km · Grade I listed building in Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of Saint John the Evangelist
St John's Church is a Church of England church in Tincleton, Dorset, England. It was designed by Benjamin Ferrey and built in 1849–50.
500 m · church building in Tincleton, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tincleton
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 78 km · Cardiff (CWL), 103 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 154 km
- Stations
- Moreton railway station, 3 km
- Bristol → Tincleton83 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–14
- Cardiff → Tincleton103 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £16–22
- London → Tincleton176 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £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 Tincleton
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 Tincleton. 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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