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# Alweston

Alweston is a village in Dorset, England, situated roughly 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Sherborne.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Alweston 59 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-alweston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Alweston)
- Cardiff → Alweston 79 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-alweston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Alweston)
- London → Alweston 176 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-alweston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Alweston)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Alweston, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Alweston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/alweston)

What Alweston has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 54 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Yeovil, 11 km.

50.920°, -2.480°

Historically it belonged to the Parish of Folke, in the Hundred of Sherborne. It lies just off the A3030 road, with Haydon to the north, North Wootton to the west, Caundle Marsh to the southeast and Folke to the south.

How locals move

## Getting around Alweston the local way

- Get in There are ferries from Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth run by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.

From [Wikivoyage: Dorset](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dorset), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-08.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alweston), CC BY-SA 4.0.


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