--- title: "Winterbourne Steepleton – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Winterbourne Steepleton, United Kingdom: Winterbourne Steepleton is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, situated in a winterbourne…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterbourne-steepleton" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterbourne-steepleton.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # 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. The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterbourne_Steepleton), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Winterbourne 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Lot_Barrow_Cemetery) 2. Parish 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael_and_All_Angels_Church,_Littlebredy) 3. Hardy 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Monument) 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 Winterbourne Steepleton **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 76 km · Cardiff (CWL), 95 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 168 km\ - Bristol → Winterbourne Steepleton 84 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-winterbourne-steepleton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Winterbourne+Steepleton) - Cardiff → Winterbourne Steepleton 97 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-winterbourne-steepleton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Winterbourne+Steepleton) - London → Winterbourne Steepleton 191 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £20–26 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-winterbourne-steepleton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Winterbourne+Steepleton) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Winterbourne%20Steepleton) 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 Winterbourne Steepleton 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. 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 86 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 159 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 562 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 569 km 5. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 588 km If you know how people move in Winterbourne Steepleton – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwinterbourne-steepleton&title=Winterbourne+Steepleton&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwinterbourne-steepleton), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Winterbourne Steepleton - [Littlebredy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/littlebredy) village in Dorset, United Kingdom 3.8 km - [Winterborne St Martin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterborne-st-martin) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 2.4 km - [Winterbourne Abbas](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/winterbourne-abbas) village and civil parish in Dorset, UK 1 km - [Grimstone](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/grimstone) hamlet in Dorset, United Kingdom 2.7 km - [Muckleford](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/muckleford) hamlet in Dorset, England, UK 4 km [The place page for Winterbourne Steepleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/winterbourne-steepleton) [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/winterbourne-steepleton, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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