Village and civil parish in Dorset, England

Stourpaine

Stourpaine is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Dorset in southern England.

Every way there

Bristol → Stourpaine
69 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £8–11
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Cardiff → Stourpaine
95 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £14–19
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London → Stourpaine
160 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £16–22
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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 Stourpaine, 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 Stourpaine has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 66 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, 24 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, 24 km.

50.885°, -2.198°

It is situated in the valley of the River Stour in the Dorset administrative district, three miles northwest of Blandford Forum. The A350 road, which connects Blandford to Shaftesbury to the north, passes through the village. The chalk hills of Cranborne Chase and the Dorset Downs lie immediately northeast and southwest respectively. In the 2011 census the civil parish had 277 dwellings, 265 households and a population of 617.

How locals move

Getting around Stourpaine 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.