West Knighton, Dorset
West Knighton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of the county town Dorchester.
West Knighton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of the county town Dorchester. It has an 11th-century church and a village pub. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 375.
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Worth seeing in and around West Knighton, Dorset
7 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.
- 01Mount Pleasant henge
Mount Pleasant henge is a Neolithic henge enclosure in the English county of Dorset. It lies southeast of Dorchester in the civil parish of West Stafford.
3.2 km · Neolithic henge monument in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Kingston Maurward House
Kingston Maurward House is a large Grade I listed Georgian English country house set in a 750-acre estate in Dorset situated in the Frome valley two miles east of Dorchester.
3.8 km · Grade I listed English country house in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Whitcombe Church
Whitcombe Church in Whitcombe, Dorset, England was built in the 12th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1.7 km · church in Whitcombe, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of Saint Michael
St Michael's Church is a Church of England parish church at Stinsford, Dorset, England. The church has 13th century origins and is a Grade I listed building.
3.9 km · church in Stinsford, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Came House
Came House is a privately owned country house next to the village of Winterborne Came, in Dorset, England. Built in the mid-18th century, it is a Grade I listed building.
2.8 km · Grade I listed house in West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Max Gate
Max Gate is the former home of Thomas Hardy and is located on the outskirts of Dorchester, Dorset, England. It was designed and built by Thomas Hardy for his own use in 1885 and he lived there until his death in 1928.
3.6 km · Grade I historic house in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Peter's Church, Winterborne Came
St Peter's Church in Winterborne Came, Dorset, England was built in the 14th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
2.9 km · church in Winterborne Came, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to West Knighton, Dorset
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 81 km · Cardiff (CWL), 104 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 160 km
- Bristol → West Knighton, Dorset86 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
- Cardiff → West Knighton, Dorset104 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £18–24
- London → West Knighton, Dorset181 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for West Knighton, Dorset
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 West Knighton, Dorset. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDespite its history as a cross-Channel ferry port, these days the furthest you can get on a passenger vessel from Weymouth is Portland; ships from the Channel Islands and France dock at Poole.
- Get inServices to Poole from the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, as well as Cherbourg in Normandy and Saint-Malo in Brittany by fast or traditional ferry are provided by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
- Go nextIsle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone.
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Next door to West Knighton, Dorset
- Broadmaynevillage in Dorset, England, UK1.2 km
- Crosswaysvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.8 km
- Winterborne Camevillage and civil parish in Dorset, UK2.7 km
- Warmwellvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Stinsfordvillage in Dorset, England, UK4 km
- West Staffordvillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom2.1 km