--- title: "Tincleton – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Tincleton, United Kingdom: Tincleton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. Nearby: Church of Saint John, Tolpuddle…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tincleton" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tincleton.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/St_John%27s_Church%2C_Tincleton.jpg/1920px-St_John%27s_Church%2C_Tincleton.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village and civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Tincleton Tincleton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. ![Tincleton](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/St_John%27s_Church%2C_Tincleton.jpg/1920px-St_John%27s_Church%2C_Tincleton.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Tincleton · Ashley Smith The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincleton), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Church 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tolpuddle) 2. Church 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tincleton) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Tincleton **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 78 km · Cardiff (CWL), 103 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 154 km\ **Stations:** Moreton railway station, 3 km\ - Bristol → Tincleton 83 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-tincleton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Tincleton) - Cardiff → Tincleton 103 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-tincleton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Tincleton) - London → Tincleton 176 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-tincleton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Tincleton) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tincleton) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries. From [Wikivoyage: Dorset](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dorset), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 72 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 172 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 571 km 4. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 573 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 574 km If you know how people move in Tincleton – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ctincleton&title=Tincleton&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ftincleton), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Tincleton - [Puddletown](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puddletown) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.7 km - [Tolpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tolpuddle) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 3.2 km - [Woodsford](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/woodsford) hamlet in south west Dorset, England 1.7 km - [Affpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/affpuddle) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.9 km - [Crossways](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/crossways) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.6 km - [Burleston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burleston) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 1.5 km [The place page for Tincleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/tincleton) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tincleton, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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