Athelhampton

Athelhampton is a settlement in the civil parish of Athelhampton and Puddletown, in Dorset, England, situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of Dorchester.

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Every way there

Bristol → Athelhampton
81 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–13
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Cardiff → Athelhampton
101 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–22
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London → Athelhampton
175 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £18–24
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The field note

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

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What Athelhampton has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 76 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesRo-Ro 3, 24 km, Brittany Ferries; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Weymouth, 18 km.

50.748°, -2.327°

It consists of a manor house and a former Church of England parish church. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of the civil parish is 30. On 1 April 2024 the parish was abolished and merged with Puddletown to form "Athelhampton and Puddletown".

How locals move

Getting around Athelhampton the local way

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

From Wikivoyage: Dorset, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Charles Latham (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.