Charlton Down

Charlton Down is a new village in Dorset, England, situated approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the county town Dorchester.

Plan a trip to Charlton Down From Bristol

Every way there

Bristol → Charlton Down
79 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £10–13
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Cardiff → Charlton Down
96 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £17–23
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London → Charlton Down
183 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £19–25
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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 Charlton Down, 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 Charlton Down has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 72 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
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, 15 km.

50.752°, -2.456°

It lies within the civil parish of Charminster.

How locals move

Getting around Charlton Down 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: Peter Cooper Jr (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.