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# Cheselbourne

Cheselbourne is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset Downs, 7 miles (11 km) north-east of Dorchester.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Cheselbourne 75 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-cheselbourne) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Cheselbourne)
- Cardiff → Cheselbourne 95 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-cheselbourne) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Cheselbourne)
- London → Cheselbourne 173 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-cheselbourne) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Cheselbourne)

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 Cheselbourne, 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 Cheselbourne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cheselbourne)

What Cheselbourne has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 70 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, 22 km.

50.797°, -2.338°

The parish is at an altitude of 75 to 245 metres and covers an area of 1,175 hectares ; the underlying geology is chalk. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 296.

How locals move

## Getting around Cheselbourne 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/Cheselbourne), CC BY-SA 4.0.


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