--- title: "Winterborne Came – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Winterborne Came, United Kingdom: Winterborne Came is a small dispersed settlement and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterborne-came" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterborne-came.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Civil parish in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterborne_Came), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Museum_(Dorchester%29) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maumbury_Rings) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_Museum) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleasant_henge) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitcombe_Church) 7. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Dorchester) 8. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy_Statue) 9. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury_Hill) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Church,_Fordington) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-winterborne-came) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Winterborne+Came) - Cardiff → Winterborne Came 102 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £18–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-winterborne-came) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Winterborne+Came) - London → Winterborne Came 184 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-winterborne-came) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Winterborne+Came) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Winterborne%20Came) 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 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 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 78 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 167 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 569 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 572 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 582 km If you know how people move in Winterborne Came – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwinterborne-came&title=Winterborne+Came&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwinterborne-came), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Winterborne Came - [Dorchester](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dorchester) town in Dorset, England, UK 2.4 km - [Broadmayne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/broadmayne) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.1 km - [West Knighton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-knighton) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 2.7 km - [West Stafford](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-stafford) village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.3 km - [Winterborne Monkton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterborne-monkton) village and civil parish in Dorset, UK 2.6 km - [Stinsford](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stinsford) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.6 km [The place page for Winterborne Came](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/winterborne-came) [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/winterborne-came, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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