Village and civil parish in Dorset, England

Spetisbury

Spetisbury is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour and the A350, four miles southeast of Blandford Forum.

Plan a trip to Spetisbury→From Bristol

Every way there

Bristol → Spetisbury
78 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £9–12
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London → Spetisbury
159 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £16–22
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Cardiff → Spetisbury
104 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £15–20
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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 Spetisbury, 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 Spetisbury has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 75 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesRo-Ro 2, 16 km, Greenslade Pleasure Boats; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Poole, 15 km.

50.821°, -2.126°

How locals move

Getting around Spetisbury 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.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: User:Hassocks5489 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.