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# Tincleton

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

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Tincleton 83 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-tincleton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Tincleton)
- Cardiff → Tincleton 103 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-tincleton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Tincleton)
- London → Tincleton 176 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-tincleton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Tincleton)

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

[Read the note on Tincleton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tincleton)

What Tincleton has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 78 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Ro-Ro 3, 23 km, Brittany Ferries; sailings estimated
- 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, 16 km.

50.727°, -2.325°

It is situated near the River Frome, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) east of the county town Dorchester. The name of the village comes from the Old English "Tin la Ton", or "farm in a valley". In 2001 Tincleton had a population of 142. Dorset County Council's latest (2013) estimate of the parish population is 150.

How locals move

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


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