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![Godmanstone](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Holy_Trinity_Church%2C_Godmanstone%2C_Dorset%2C_2026.jpg/3840px-Holy_Trinity_Church%2C_Godmanstone%2C_Dorset%2C_2026.jpg)

# Godmanstone

Godmanstone is a village and civil parish in Dorset in southern England, situated approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the county town Dorchester.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Godmanstone 76 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-godmanstone) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Godmanstone)
- Cardiff → Godmanstone 93 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-godmanstone) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Godmanstone)
- London → Godmanstone 183 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–26 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-godmanstone) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Godmanstone)

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 Godmanstone, 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 Godmanstone](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/godmanstone)

What Godmanstone 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, 18 km.

50.774°, -2.474°

Its name means "Godman's Farm" and it is sited by the River Cerne amongst chalk hills of the Dorset Downs.

How locals move

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


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