Winfrith Newburgh
Winfrith Newburgh, commonly called just Winfrith, is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England.
Winfrith Newburgh, commonly called just Winfrith, is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is about 8 miles (13 km) west of Wareham and 10 miles (16 km) east of the county town Dorchester. It was historically part of the Winfrith hundred. In the 2011 Census the civil parish – which includes the hamlet of East Knighton to the northeast – had 300 households and a population of 669. An electoral ward simply named "Winfrith" exists but extends northwards to Briantspuddle. The total population of this ward was 1,618.
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Worth seeing in and around Winfrith Newburgh
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.
- 01The Five Marys round barrow cemetery
The Five Marys is a group of Bronze Age round barrows near the village of Chaldon Herring, in Dorset, England. The site is a scheduled monument.
1.8 km · archaeological site in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant)
Holy Rood Church is a former Church of England church in Coombe Keynes, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1860–61, but the tower and chancel arch is 13th-century.
3.6 km · church building in Coombe Keynes, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Winfrith Newburgh
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 86 km · Cardiff (CWL), 111 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 155 km
- Bristol → Winfrith Newburgh91 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
- Cardiff → Winfrith Newburgh111 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £19–25
- London → Winfrith Newburgh177 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Winfrith Newburgh
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 Winfrith Newburgh. 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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- Owermoignevillage and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom3.8 km
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- Giddy Greenhamlet in Dorset, England, UK3 km