Winterbourne Steepleton
Winterbourne Steepleton is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, situated in a winterbourne valley 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Dorchester, next to the village of Winterbourne Abbas.
Winterbourne Steepleton is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, situated in a winterbourne valley 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Dorchester, next to the village of Winterbourne Abbas. The name of the village derives from its site next to a seasonal winterbourne stream and from having a stone church steeple - one of only three medieval stone spires in the county. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 297.
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Worth seeing in and around Winterbourne Steepleton
3 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.
- 01Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrows
Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery is an archaeological site, a group of Bronze Age round barrows, near the A35 road about 2 miles west of Winterbourne Abbas, in Dorset, England. It is an English Heritage site.
3.9 km · archaeological site in Dorset, England · Wikipedia - 02Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels
St Michael and All Angels Church is a Grade II listed Anglican church in the village of Littlebredy, Dorset, England.
4 km · church in Littlebredy, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hardy Monument
The Hardy Monument is a 72-foot-high monument on the summit of Black Down near Portesham in Dorset. It was erected in 1844 by public subscription in memory of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, flag captain of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
2.6 km · monument in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Winterbourne Steepleton
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 76 km · Cardiff (CWL), 95 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 168 km
- Bristol → Winterbourne Steepleton84 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
- Cardiff → Winterbourne Steepleton97 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £17–23
- London → Winterbourne Steepleton191 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £20–26
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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 Winterbourne Steepleton. 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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Next door to Winterbourne Steepleton
- Littlebredyvillage in Dorset, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Winterborne St Martinvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK2.4 km
- Winterbourne Abbasvillage and civil parish in Dorset, UK1 km
- Grimstonehamlet in Dorset, United Kingdom2.7 km
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