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# Puddletown

Puddletown is a village in the civil parish of Athelhampton and Puddletown, in Dorset, England.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Puddletown 80 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-puddletown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Puddletown)
- Cardiff → Puddletown 100 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-puddletown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Puddletown)
- London → Puddletown 177 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-puddletown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Puddletown)

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 Puddletown, 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 Puddletown has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 75 km
- F Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
- 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, 17 km.

50.748°, -2.344°

It is situated by the River Piddle, from which it derives its name, about 4.5 miles (7 km) northeast of the county town Dorchester. Its earlier name Piddletown fell out of favour, probably because of connotations of the word "piddle". The name Puddletown was officially sanctioned in the late 1950s. Puddletown's civil parish covered 2,908 hectares and extended to the River Frome to the south. In 2013, the estimated population of the civil parish was 1450.

How locals move

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


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