Puddletown is a Town in the county of Dorset.

Retail in Puddletown

There are great places to visit near Puddletown including some great towns, waterfalls, villages, historic buildings, historic monuments, ancient sites, hills, castles, ruins and airports.

Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, Wareham, and Blandford Forum are some of Puddletown best towns to visit near Puddletown.

Don't miss Jericho Weir's waterfalls if visiting the area around Puddletown.

Puddletown's best nearby villages can be found at Uplyme, Bincombe, Symondsbury, and Abbotsbury.

The Cobb is a great place to visit close to Puddletown if you like historic buildings.

King's Statue (King George III Statue) is a great place to visit close to Puddletown if you like historic monuments.

The area around Puddletown features a number of interesting ancient sites including Eggardon Hill, Hambledon Hill, Badbury Rings, Kingston Russell Stone Circle, The Nine Stones, and Maiden Castle.

There are a several good hills in the area around Puddletown like Eggardon Hill.

There are a number of castles near to Puddletown including Corfe Castle.

Places near Puddletown feature a number of interesting ruins including Corfe Castle.

Don't miss Bournemouth Airport's airports if visiting the area around Puddletown.

Puddletown History

There are some historic monuments around Puddletown:

• Two bowl barrows on Drove Hill
• Medieval settlement 350m east of West Burton Dairy
• Court Close settlement remains
• Earthwork S of Meriden Wood, and adjoining round barrow
• Medieval settlement of Winterborne Farringdon and associated remains
• Medieval settlement remains 800m south of Manor Farm
• Two bell barrows and a bowl barrow, 200m north east of Haywards Farm
• Four bowl barrows at the eastern end of Waterston Ridge, 490m south west and 500m south east of Ridge Farm
• Bowl barrow 520m south east of Nutley Farm
• Bowl barrow c.200m NNW of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
• Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 140m south east of Cull-peppers Dish
• Group of four round barrows in Cripton Wood
• Bowl barrow on Pond Eweleaze 500m north east of Dole's Ash Farm
• Colliton Park Roman house
• Two round barrows N of Came Farm
• Round barrow 250yds (230m) W of Fryer Mayne manor house
• Two round barrows SW of Well House Cottage
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
• Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 970m south east of Wood Barn
• Mayne stone circle (at Little Mayne Farm)
• Roman road over Thorncombe Wood and Black Heath
• Three bowl barrows 530m and 350m north east of Whitcombe Barn
• Bowl barrow in Sares Wood, 430m south west of Wood Barn
• Four bowl barrows 600m east and 650m north east of Haywards Farm
• Barrow S of Wolfeton Clump
• Group of barrows on West Hill
• Two bowl barrows c.280m north-east of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
• Weatherby Castle, an Iron Age hillfort 1020m north west of Ashley Barn Farm
• Seven round barrows NW of Lyscombe Bottom
• Bowl barrow 550m north west of Bulbarrow Farm
• Earthworks SE of Park Wood, including round barrow
• Two barrows W of Little Piddle Down
• Bell barrow 70m west of Fidler's Green
• Bowl barrow 400m south east of Melcombe Newton House
• Round barrow SW of Wolfeton Clump
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 580m north east of Whitcombe Vale Farm
• Bowl barrow 420m north west of Frogmore Farm
• Medieval settlement remains at Whitcombe
• Round barrow S of Manor Farm
• Long barrow 400yds (360m) NW of Hill Barn
• Two bowl barrows on Lord's Down 580m south east of Crawthorne Farm
• Bowl barrow 480m south east of West End Barn
• Bowl barrow to the west of Five Marys: an outlier to the Five Marys round barrow cemetery
• Two round barrows in Doles Hill Plantation
• Bowl barrow 150m north east of Dunbury
• Medieval standing cross 6m north east of St Martin's Church
• Bowl barrow 380m north west of Hyford Cottage
• Barrow on College Down
• Bowl barrow 300m south east of Hyford Cottage
• Barrow S of Common Plantation
• Bowl barrow in Ruins Plantation 200m east of The Retreat
• Bell barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 800m south east of Wood Barn
• Two bowl barrows 320m south west of Laycock Dairy Farm
• Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill
• Group of round barrows NE of Hog Leaze
• Bowl barrow on East Hill 510m north east of All Saints Church
• Henge Enclosure, Conquer Barrow and Barrow Cemetery
• Bowl barrow 615m north east of Hardy's Birthplace
• Obelisk on Fir Hill
• Six round barrows on Bincombe Down
• Medieval settlement of North Louvard
• Round barrow on Hog Leaze
• Bowl barrow 900m north west of Lower Farm
• Lord's Barrow: a bowl barrow 500m north of Northground Dairy
• Two bowl barrows 750m east of Clyffe House
• Field system and settlement on Watcombe Plain
• Bowl barrow on Burleston Down 840m south east of Crawthorne Farm
• Group of round barrows on North Bincombe Hill, S of Came Wood
• Part of Roman, Saxon, and medieval town in grounds of Wollaston House
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 600m west of Stafford Farm
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 650m north east of Whitcombe Vale Farm
• Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood
• George III, chalk-cut hill side figure
• Sandy Barrow
• Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent
• Three bowl barrows 380m west of West End Barn
• Earthwork on Church Hill
• Bowl barrow 790m north east of Haywards Farm
• Deserted town of Milton Abbas
• Two bowl barrows 85m and 130m south west of Cambrai House
• Bowl barrow c.240m north of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
• Bowl barrow in Throop Clump, 450m west of Heatherdown
• Round barrow N of Boswell's Plantation
• Bowl barrow in Piddle Wood, 530m north east of Gate Barn
• Bowl barrow 350m north west of Gatehouse Farm
• Two round barrows at Down Wood
• Bowl barrow on Little Puddle Hill, 920m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
• Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 640m south of Wood Barn
• Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields
• Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill
• The Five Marys round barrow cemetery
• Roman road in Kingston Park
• Bowl barrow 75m south east of Laycock Dairy Farm
• Milton Park boundary bank
• Melcombe Horsey deserted village
• Three bowl barrows on Puddletown Heath, 550m south west of Beacon Corner
• Three round barrows on Puddletown Down
• Earthwork in Bowley's Plantation
• Cultivation remains on Thomas's Hill and E of Hilton
• Dorchester Roman walls
• Culliford Tree long barrow and group of round barrows
• Two barrows on Little Puddle Hill
• Four barrows on Moigns Down
• Bowl barrow 450m east of Dennet's Bottom Barn
• Two bowl barrows 280m north of Clyffe House
• Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 650m south east of Wood Barn
• Earthwork SE of Foxpound
• Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down
• Bell barrow and bowl barrow 580m east of Clyffe House
• Three bowl barrows 230m south west of Haywards Farm
• The Rainbarrows, a group of three bowl barrows on Duddle Heath
• Tadnoll Barrow
• Bowl barrow 850m west of Weatherby Castle hillfort
• Two bowl barrows 640m north of Squibbs Farm
• Barrows in Came Wood
• Roman road W of Ashley Barn
• Ancient settlement E of Lyscombe Bottom
• Deserted village of Bardolfeston
• Oval barrow and three bowl barrows 250m and 330m south of Whitcombe Barn
• The Double Barrow, a bowl barrow in Kite Hill Plantation 250m south east of Roger's Hill Cottages
• Enclosure near 'the Sole Plantation'
• Bowl barrow 330m south east of Nutley Farm
• Medieval settlement of Little Piddle
• Medieval settlement immediately west of Waterston House
• Field system on Green Down
• Two barrows 600yds (550m) N of Halls Farm
• Barrow on Galton Heath
• Henge, Romano-British amphitheatre and Civil War fieldworks known collectively as Maumbury Rings
• Lyscombe Farm chapel
• Two bowl barrows on Clouds Hill, 90m south west of Lawrence of Arabia's Cottage
• Round barrow SW of Bourne Farm
• Barrow 200yds (180m) N of the White Horse
• Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm
• Bowl barrow at Five Marys: an outlier to the Five Marys round barrow cemetery
• Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village
• Bowl barrow 550m WNW of West End Barn
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill 500m north of Whitcombe Farm
• Round barrow N of Heave Coppice
• Camp on Nettlecombe Tout
• Field system and settlement on West Hill, Plush
• Bowl barrow 70m south east of West End Barn
• Four bowl barows 710m north, 750m north west and 950m north west of Clyffe House
• Earthworks on Houghton South Down, including group of three round barrows
• Bell barrow and two bowl barrows on Old Knowle, 835m NNW of Whitcombe Vale Farm
• Bowl barrow 230m south of Bulbarrow Farm
• Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 95m south of Cull-peppers Dish
• Group of barrows E of Northdown Barn
• Round barrow W of Ashley Barn
• Bingham's Melcombe deserted village
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 740m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House
• Round barrow on Church Hill
• Round barrow W of Druce Higher Barn
• Round barrow cemetery on Deverel Down 380m west of Longthorns
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn
• Three bowl barrows at the western end of Waterston Ridge, 360m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
• Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor
• Linear earthworks around Lyscombe Bottom
• Barrow S of Tinker's Barrow Plantation
• Tudor and 17th century farmstead and Romano-British settlement
• Three bowl barrows on Milborne Down 520m and 585m north east of obelisk on Weatherby Castle hillfort
• Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House
• Bowl barrow 600m south of Whitcombe Farm
• Earthwork and ancient fields SE of Lyscombe Bottom
• Medieval settlement at Holworth
• Two square enclosures in Tenant's Bottom
• Bowl barrow 650m north west of Long Ash Farm
• Bowl barrow on Green Hill 350m north west of Keepers Cottage
• Six bowl barrows on Blacknoll Hill
• Two bowl barrows and two ring ditches 450m north west of Haywards Farm