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# Folke

Folke is a parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Sherborne.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Folke 60 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-folke) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Folke)
- Cardiff → Folke 79 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-folke) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Folke)
- London → Folke 177 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-folke) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Folke)

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 Folke, 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 Folke](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/folke)

What Folke has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 54 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: Yeovil, 10 km.

50.920°, -2.486°

The parish has an area of 2,120 acres (8.6 km2) and is made of the villages of Folke and Alweston, and the hamlet of Bishops Down.

How locals move

## Getting around Folke 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/Folke), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: ArildV (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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