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# Chickerell

Chickerell is a town and parish in south Dorset, England, situated 2 miles (3 km) north-west of Weymouth.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Chickerell 93 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-chickerell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Chickerell)
- Cardiff → Chickerell 106 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-chickerell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Chickerell)
- London → Chickerell 193 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-chickerell) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Chickerell)

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 Chickerell, 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 Chickerell](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chickerell)

What Chickerell has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 86 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- 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.

50.624°, -2.505°

In the 2021 census the parish had a population of 6,283. The parish includes the Charlestown neighbourhood and Buckland Ripers hamlet.

How locals move

## Getting around Chickerell 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/Chickerell), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Andrew Bone from Weymouth, England (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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