--- title: "Winfrith Newburgh – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Winfrith Newburgh, United Kingdom: Winfrith Newburgh, commonly called just Winfrith, is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England. Nearby: The Five…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winfrith-newburgh" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winfrith-newburgh.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/St_Christopher%2C_Winfrith_Newburgh.JPG" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Winfrith Newburgh Winfrith Newburgh, commonly called just Winfrith, is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England. ![Winfrith Newburgh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/St_Christopher%2C_Winfrith_Newburgh.JPG) Winfrith Newburgh · Wikimedia Commons The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfrith_Newburgh), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. The 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Marys) 2. Former 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Rood_Church,_Coombe_Keynes) 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 Winfrith Newburgh **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 86 km · Cardiff (CWL), 111 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 155 km\ - Bristol → Winfrith Newburgh 91 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-winfrith-newburgh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Winfrith+Newburgh) - Cardiff → Winfrith Newburgh 111 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-winfrith-newburgh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Winfrith+Newburgh) - London → Winfrith Newburgh 177 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-winfrith-newburgh) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Winfrith+Newburgh) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Winfrith%20Newburgh) 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 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Despite 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 in Services 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 next Isle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone. From [Wikivoyage: Weymouth](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Weymouth), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. 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 68 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 178 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 575 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 579 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 580 km If you know how people move in Winfrith Newburgh – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwinfrith-newburgh&title=Winfrith+Newburgh&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwinfrith-newburgh), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Winfrith Newburgh - [Owermoigne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/owermoigne) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.8 km - [Chaldon Herring](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chaldon-herring) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.3 km - [Coombe Keynes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coombe-keynes) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.5 km - [Giddy Green](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/giddy-green) hamlet in Dorset, England, UK 3 km [The place page for Winfrith Newburgh](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/winfrith-newburgh) [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/winfrith-newburgh, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt