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# Langton Herring

Langton Herring is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Langton Herring 91 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-langton-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Langton+Herring)
- Cardiff → Langton Herring 104 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-langton-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Langton+Herring)
- London → Langton Herring 195 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £20–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-langton-herring) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Langton+Herring)

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 Langton Herring, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Langton Herring has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 83 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, 7 km.

50.641°, -2.547°

It lies about 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west of the coastal resort town of Weymouth. It is "prudently set on a ridge above the Fleet", the Fleet being a brackish lagoon behind Chesil Beach. Dorset County Council estimate that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 120. In the 2011 census the population of the parish combined with the small parish of Fleet to the south was 240.

How locals move

## Getting around Langton Herring 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/Langton_Herring), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: H. Zell (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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