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# 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-athelhampton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Athelhampton)
- Cardiff → Athelhampton 101 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-athelhampton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Athelhampton)
- London → Athelhampton 175 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-athelhampton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Athelhampton)

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 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

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 76 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Ro-Ro 3, 24 km, Brittany Ferries; sailings estimated
- 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: 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 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/Athelhampton), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Charles Latham (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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