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Winterborne Came

Winterborne Came is a small dispersed settlement and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in the west of the county, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of the county town Dorchester.

The place

Winterborne Came is a small dispersed settlement and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in the west of the county, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of the county town Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population was 40.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Winterborne Came

10 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. 01
    Maiden Castle

    Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 1.6 mi southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age.

    3.7 km · Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester

    The Dinosaur Museum is a museum presenting dinosaurs in Dorchester, the county town of Dorset, in southern England. The Dinosaur Museum is the only museum in mainland Britain dedicated purely to dinosaurs.

    2.6 km · museum in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Maumbury Rings

    Maumbury Rings is a Neolithic henge in the south of Dorchester town in Dorset, England. It is a large circular earthwork, 85 metres in diameter, with a single bank and an entrance to the north east.

    2.2 km · Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dorset Museum & Art Gallery

    Dorset Museum & Art Gallery is located in Dorchester, Dorset, England. It was known as the Dorset County Museum until 2021.

    2.7 km · museum in Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mount 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.

    1.7 km · Neolithic henge monument in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Whitcombe 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 km · church in Whitcombe, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church, also known as St Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, England. It was built in 1910–12 for a cost of £11,500.

    2.5 km · church in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Statue of Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy Statue is a statue of Thomas Hardy, located at Dorchester, Dorset, England. It was funded by public subscription to commemorate Hardy's life and works, three years after his death.

    2.9 km · statue in Dorchester, Dorset, England, by Eric Kennington · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Poundbury Hill

    Poundbury Hill is the site of a scheduled Prehistoric and Roman archaeological remains and includes evidence of a Neolithic settlement, a substantial Bronze Age occupation site and an Iron Age hillfort. There are also late Iron Age burials and a section of Roman aqueduct.

    3.7 km · Dorset hill fort · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St George

    St George's Church is a Church of England church in Dorchester, Dorset, England and the parish church of the suburb of Fordington. St George's has been Grade I Listed since 1950.

    2.3 km · church in Fordington, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Winterborne Came

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 79 km · Cardiff (CWL), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 162 km
Stations
Dorchester South railway station, 2.1 km · Dorchester West railway station, 2.6 km · Monkton and Came Halt railway station, 2.3 km
  • Bristol → Winterborne Came
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £10–13
  • Cardiff → Winterborne Came
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £18–23
  • London → Winterborne Came
    184 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Winterborne Came

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 Winterborne Came. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: 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. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    78 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    167 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    569 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    572 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    582 km

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