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Sturminster Newton
Town in Dorset, England

Sturminster Newton

Sturminster Newton is a town and civil parish situated on the River Stour in the north of Dorset, England.

Plan a trip to Sturminster Newton→From Bristol

The town is at the centre of the Blackmore Vale, a large dairy agriculture region around which the town's economy is built, and is known as 'the heart of the Blackmore vale'.

How locals move

Getting around Sturminster Newton 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: Andrew Bone (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.