Winterborne Monkton
Winterborne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England.
Winterborne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies close to the A354 road between the county town Dorchester, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the north, and the coastal resort Weymouth, 5 miles (8.0 km) to the south. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population was 50.
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Worth seeing in and around Winterborne Monkton
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.
- 01Maiden 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.
1 km · Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02The 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.
3.3 km · museum in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery is located in Dorchester, Dorset, England. It was known as the Dorset County Museum until 2021.
3.2 km · museum in Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Maumbury 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.
2.4 km · Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia - 05Church 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.
2.4 km · church in Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Statue 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.
3 km · statue in Dorchester, Dorset, England, by Eric Kennington · Wikipedia - 07Parish Church of Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church located in Bincombe, Dorset, England. The church dates back to the late 12th century, with subsequent additions and a restoration in 1865.
3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Bincombe, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church 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.
3.4 km · church in Fordington, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Mount 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.
3.9 km · Neolithic henge monument in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Dorchester Castle
Dorchester Castle was a motte and bailey castle in the market town of Dorchester, Dorset, southern England.
3.4 km · medieval castle in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Winterborne Monkton
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 79 km · Cardiff (CWL), 100 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 164 km
- Stations
- Dorchester South railway station, 2.6 km · Dorchester West railway station, 2.6 km · Upwey Wishing Well Halt railway station, 2.8 km · Monkton and Came Halt railway station, 700 m
- Bristol → Winterborne Monkton86 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
- Cardiff → Winterborne Monkton101 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £18–23
- London → Winterborne Monkton187 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Winterborne Monkton
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 Monkton. 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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