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# Charlton Down

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

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Charlton Down 79 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-charlton-down) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Charlton+Down)
- Cardiff → Charlton Down 96 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-charlton-down) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Charlton+Down)
- London → Charlton Down 183 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-charlton-down) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Charlton+Down)

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.

[Read the note on Charlton Down](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/charlton-down)

What Charlton Down has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 72 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: 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 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/Charlton_Down), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Peter Cooper Jr (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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