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Sturminster Newton works well as a base: 5 minutes from Manston, 34km from Lulworth Cove.
Sturminster Newton is in England, United Kingdom, with about 3,500 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Manston, about 4 km away.
Sturminster Newton is a town and civil parish situated on the River Stour in the north of Dorset, England. 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'.
The town has shops, a primary andRead more
secondary school – Sturminster Newton High School – and a school and college catering for children with special educational needs. A market is held in the town on Mondays. One of the largest cattle markets in England used to be held here, but it was closed in 1998.
The town is noted for its connections with the authors Thomas Hardy and William Barnes, and as part of the historic West Country Carnival circuit.
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Within an hour or so of Sturminster Newton: Gold Hill, Shaftesbury (12 km), Cerne Abbas Giant (17 km), Stourhead (20 km), Stourhead (Pride and Prejudice proposal) (20 km).
The nearest famous roads are Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, Cheddar Gorge Road (B3135) and Military Road, Isle of Wight.
Sturminster Newton is in England, United Kingdom, about 4 km from Manston.
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Full driving guide for United Kingdom8 notable places within an hour's drive.
photogenic
Steep cobbled street lined with thatched cottages, plunging past the buttressed walls of Shaftesbury Abbey with views over Blackmore Vale. Made famous by Ridley Scott's 1973 Hovis bread advert.
12 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A 55 m chalk hill figure of a club-wielding naked man above a Dorset village, now dated to the late Saxon period.
17 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
One of the world's finest landscape gardens with a magnificent lake, classical temples and a stunning Palladian mansion in Wiltshire.
20 km · about 25 min drive
film location
The Palladian bridge and Temple of Apollo in Stourhead's landscape garden host Darcy's rain-soaked first proposal in the 2005 film.
20 km · about 25 min drive
museum
The UK's largest collection of classic and vintage cars and motorcycles, with over 400 vehicles on display.
22 km · about 25 min drive
racetrack
A 1,000-yard chalk downland hillclimb in Wiltshire with a fearsome uphill Karousel corner, run by enthusiasts since 1967 and one of the best places in Britain to watch sprint cars up close.
26 km · about 30 min drive
ancient ruins
One of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Europe, its multiple ramparts enclosing an area the size of 50 football pitches.
28 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
Almost perfectly circular cove formed by the sea eroding through Portland limestone, creating one of the world's finest examples of coastal geology.
34 km · about 40 min drive
April to October
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