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# Tolpuddle

Tolpuddle is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it takes its name, 8 miles (13 km) east of Dorchester, the county town, and 12 miles (19 km) west of Poole.

[Plan a trip to Tolpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tolpuddle) [From Bristol](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Tolpuddle)

## Every way there

- Bristol → Tolpuddle 81 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-tolpuddle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Tolpuddle)
- Cardiff → Tolpuddle 102 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-tolpuddle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Tolpuddle)
- London → Tolpuddle 173 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-tolpuddle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Tolpuddle)

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 Tolpuddle, 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 Tolpuddle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tolpuddle)

What Tolpuddle has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 76 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Ro-Ro 3, 22 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, 19 km.

50.749°, -2.296°

The estimated population of the parish in 2013 was 420.

How locals move

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


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