--- title: "Wootton Fitzpaine – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Wootton Fitzpaine, United Kingdom: Wootton Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. Nearby: Church of St…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wootton-fitzpaine" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wootton-fitzpaine.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wootton_Fitzpaine_-_Monkton_Wyld_Court_-_20220415121157.jpg/1920px-Wootton_Fitzpaine_-_Monkton_Wyld_Court_-_20220415121157.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Wootton Fitzpaine Wootton Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. ![Wootton Fitzpaine](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Wootton_Fitzpaine_-_Monkton_Wyld_Court_-_20220415121157.jpg/1920px-Wootton_Fitzpaine_-_Monkton_Wyld_Court_-_20220415121157.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Wootton Fitzpaine · Howard Inst The place Wootton Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of Lyme Regis in a small side valley of the River Char, close to the Marshwood Vale. The civil parish covers an area of 3,307 acres (1,338 ha) and includes the ecclesiastical parish and small settlement of Monkton Wyld to the west. In the 2011 census the civil parish had 180 dwellings, 134 households and a population of 345. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootton_Fitzpaine), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Wootton Fitzpaine 7 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. Church of St Candida and Holy Cross, Whitchurch Canonicorum The Church of St Candida and Holy Cross is an Anglican church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England. A Saxon church stood on the site but nothing remains of that structure. 2.5 km · Grade I listed church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Candida_and_Holy_Cross) 2. Marshwood Castle Marshwood Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle in Marshwood, Dorset, within the Vale of Marshwood. It was built by William de Mandeville following his elevation to Baron Marshwood in 1205 by King John, and is first recorded as a built castle in 1215. 3.8 km · castle in Marshwood, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshwood_Castle) 3. St Andrew's Church St Andrew's Church is a Church of England church in Monkton Wyld, Dorset, England. It was built in 1848–49 to the designs of Richard Cromwell Carpenter and has been a Grade II\* listed building since 1960. 3.6 km · church in Monkton Wyld, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Monkton_Wyld) 4. Parish Church (St Mary) St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England. It was designed by John Loughborough Pearson and built in 1857–58. 1.4 km · church in Catherston Leweston, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Catherston_Leweston) 5. Fishpond Church (St John The Baptist) St John's Church is a Church of England church in Fishpond Bottom, Dorset, England. It was built in 1852 and has been a Grade II listed building since 1984. 2.6 km · church in Fishpond, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Fishpond_Bottom) 6. Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England. The centre operates as an independent registered charity within the larger framework of the UNESCO Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, known as the "Jurassic Coast". 2.8 km · heritage centre in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmouth_Heritage_Coast_Centre) 7. Coney's Castle Coney's Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, England. The name Coney is from the Old English for rabbit, suggesting medieval use as a domestic warren, as at nearby Pilsdon Pen. 1.7 km · Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney%27s_Castle) 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 Wootton Fitzpaine **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 70 km · Cardiff (CWL), 78 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 187 km\ - Bristol → Wootton Fitzpaine 81 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-wootton-fitzpaine) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Wootton+Fitzpaine) - Cardiff → Wootton Fitzpaine 83 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-wootton-fitzpaine) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Wootton+Fitzpaine) - London → Wootton Fitzpaine 211 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-wootton-fitzpaine) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Wootton+Fitzpaine) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Wootton%20Fitzpaine) 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 Wootton Fitzpaine 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 Wootton Fitzpaine. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. 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 112 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 133 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 537 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 556 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 592 km If you know how people move in Wootton Fitzpaine – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwootton-fitzpaine&title=Wootton+Fitzpaine&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwootton-fitzpaine), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Wootton Fitzpaine - [Charmouth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/charmouth) village in Dorset, England, UK 2.8 km - [Whitchurch Canonicorum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/whitchurch-canonicorum) village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England 3.1 km - [Marshwood](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/marshwood) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.3 km - [Stanton St Gabriel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/stanton-st-gabriel) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.5 km - [Catherston Leweston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/catherston-leweston) village and civil parish in West Dorset, Dorset, England 1.3 km - [Morcombelake](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/morcombelake) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.3 km [The place page for Wootton Fitzpaine](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/wootton-fitzpaine) [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/wootton-fitzpaine, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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