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Durweston
Village and civil parish in Dorset, England

Durweston

Durweston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset.

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It lies two miles northwest of the town of Blandford Forum. It is sited by the River Stour at the point where it flows out of the Blackmore Vale through a steep, narrow gap between the Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 398.

How locals move

Getting around Durweston 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.

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