--- title: "Tolpuddle – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Tolpuddle, United Kingdom: Tolpuddle is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tolpuddle" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tolpuddle.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Communist_Party_of_Britain_on_parade_at_Tolpuddle%2C_2018.jpg/1920px-Communist_Party_of_Britain_on_parade_at_Tolpuddle%2C_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Tolpuddle Tolpuddle is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it takes its name, 8 miles (13 km) east of Dorchester, the county town, and 12 miles (19 km) west of Poole. ![Tolpuddle](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Communist_Party_of_Britain_on_parade_at_Tolpuddle%2C_2018.jpg/1920px-Communist_Party_of_Britain_on_parade_at_Tolpuddle%2C_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Tolpuddle · Pierre Marshall The place Tolpuddle is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it takes its name, 8 miles (13 km) east of Dorchester, the county town, and 12 miles (19 km) west of Poole. The estimated population of the parish in 2013 was 420. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolpuddle), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Tolpuddle 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. Dewlish House Dewlish House is a country house near Dewlish in Dorset. It is a Grade I Listed building. 3.6 km · Grade I listed building in West Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewlish_House) 2. 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. 100 m · Grade I listed building in Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Tolpuddle) 3. 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. 3.1 km · 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 Tolpuddle **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 76 km · Cardiff (CWL), 103 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 151 km\ - Bristol → Tolpuddle 81 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-tolpuddle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Tolpuddle) - Cardiff → Tolpuddle 102 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-tolpuddle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Tolpuddle) - London → Tolpuddle 173 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-tolpuddle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Tolpuddle) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tolpuddle) 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 Tolpuddle 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 Tolpuddle. 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 70 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 173 km 3. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 569 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 571 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 573 km If you know how people move in Tolpuddle – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ctolpuddle&title=Tolpuddle&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ftolpuddle), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Tolpuddle - [Puddletown](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/puddletown) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.4 km - [Milborne St Andrew](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milborne-st-andrew) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 3.6 km - [Affpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/affpuddle) village in Dorset, England, UK 1.8 km - [Tincleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tincleton) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.2 km - [Burleston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/burleston) village in Burleston and Tolpuddle, Dorset, England, UK 2 km - [Dewlish](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dewlish) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.8 km [The place page for Tolpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/tolpuddle) [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/tolpuddle, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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