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# West Stafford

West Stafford is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated in the Frome valley 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Dorchester.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → West Stafford 85 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-west-stafford) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=West+Stafford)
- Cardiff → West Stafford 103 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-west-stafford) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=West+Stafford)
- London → West Stafford 181 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-west-stafford) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=West+Stafford)

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 Stafford, 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 Stafford has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 79 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, 11 km.

50.705°, -2.389°

In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 291. The village contains the public house 'The Wise Man Inn', and St Andrew's Church. The river Winterbourne runs beside the village and 2 miles south lies the village of West Knighton. Thomas Hardy, when training as an architect, assisted in the design of Talbothays Lodge and the cottages opposite. The village is also accepted as the setting for part of Hardy's novel Tess or the D'Urbevilles, during the period when Tess works at the Talbothays Dairy.

How locals move

## Getting around West Stafford 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_Stafford), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: mattbuck (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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