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# West Knighton, Dorset

West Knighton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of the county town Dorchester.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → West Knighton, Dorset 86 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-west-knighton-dorset) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=West+Knighton%2C+Dorset)
- Cardiff → West Knighton, Dorset 104 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-west-knighton-dorset) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=West+Knighton%2C+Dorset)
- London → West Knighton, Dorset 181 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-west-knighton-dorset) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=West+Knighton%2C+Dorset)

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 West Knighton, Dorset, 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 West Knighton, Dorset has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 81 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- 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, 10 km.

50.688°, -2.380°

It has an 11th-century church and a village pub. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 375.

How locals move

## Getting around West Knighton, Dorset the local way

- Get in Despite its history as a cross-Channel ferry port, these days the furthest you can get on a passenger vessel from Weymouth is Portland; ships from the Channel Islands and France dock at Poole.
- Get in Services to Poole from the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, as well as Cherbourg in Normandy and Saint-Malo in Brittany by fast or traditional ferry are provided by Brittany Ferries and Condor Ferries.
- Go next Isle of Portland – take the A354 south or a ferry to Portland, a tied island known for its stone.

From [Wikivoyage: Weymouth](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Weymouth), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Knighton%2C_Dorset), CC BY-SA 4.0.


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