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# Chaldon Herring

Chaldon Herring or East Chaldon is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, about 8 miles (13 km) south-east of the county town of Dorchester.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Chaldon Herring 92 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-chaldon-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Chaldon+Herring)
- Cardiff → Chaldon Herring 111 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-chaldon-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Chaldon+Herring)
- London → Chaldon Herring 179 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-chaldon-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Chaldon+Herring)

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The field note

What is in and around Chaldon Herring, 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 Chaldon Herring has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 87 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Ro-Ro 3, 22 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, 12 km.

50.650°, -2.297°

It is sited 2 miles (3.2 km) from the coast in the chalk hills of the South Dorset Downs. The highest point in the area is Chaldon Hill about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the south, overlooking the sea. In the 2011 census the civil parish had 59 households and a population of 140.

How locals move

## Getting around Chaldon Herring the local way

- 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldon_Herring), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Stoutcob (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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