Puddletown
Puddletown is a Town in the county of Dorset.
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.
There are a several good towns in the Puddletown area like Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, Wareham, and Blandford Forum.
Places near Puddletown feature a number of interesting waterfalls including Jericho Weir.
There are a several good villages in the Puddletown area like Uplyme, Bincombe, Symondsbury, and Abbotsbury.
The area around Puddletown's best historic buildings can be found at The Cobb.
There are a number of historic monuments near to Puddletown including King's Statue (King George III Statue).
Eggardon Hill, Hambledon Hill, Badbury Rings, Kingston Russell Stone Circle, The Nine Stones, and Maiden Castle are great places to visit near Puddletown if you like ancient sites.
Puddletown is near some unmissable hills like Eggardon Hill,
The area close to Puddletown boasts some of the best castles including Corfe Castle.
Places near Puddletown feature a number of interesting ruins including Corfe Castle.
Bournemouth Airport is a great place to visit close to Puddletown if you like airports.
Puddletown History
There are some historic monuments around Puddletown:
- Medieval settlement at Holworth
- Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 970m south east of Wood Barn
- Round barrow cemetery on Deverel Down 380m west of Longthorns
- Barrow S of Tinker's Barrow Plantation
- Bowl barrow 615m north east of Hardy's Birthplace
- Round barrow W of Ashley Barn
- Ancient settlement E of Lyscombe Bottom
- Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 650m south east of Wood Barn
- Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 740m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
- Medieval settlement 350m east of West Burton Dairy
- Henge Enclosure, Conquer Barrow and Barrow Cemetery
- Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill
- Barrow 200yds (180m) N of the White Horse
- Lyscombe Farm chapel
- Bowl barrow 380m north west of Hyford Cottage
- Round barrow SW of Bourne Farm
- Two round barrows N of Came Farm
- Medieval settlement of Winterborne Farringdon and associated remains
- Milton Park boundary bank
- Earthwork on Church Hill
- Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down
- Barrow S of Wolfeton Clump
- Dorchester Roman walls
- Bell barrow and two bowl barrows on Old Knowle, 835m NNW of Whitcombe Vale Farm
- Bowl barrow 550m WNW of West End Barn
- Round barrow SW of Wolfeton Clump
- Roman road over Thorncombe Wood and Black Heath
- Bowl barrow 330m south east of Nutley Farm
- Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 600m west of Stafford Farm
- Round barrow on Church Hill
- Bowl barrow 300m south east of Hyford Cottage
- Lord's Barrow: a bowl barrow 500m north of Northground Dairy
- Cultivation remains on Thomas's Hill and E of Hilton
- Bowl barrow 450m east of Dennet's Bottom Barn
- Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor
- Roman road W of Ashley Barn
- Bowl barrow 230m south of Bulbarrow Farm
- Bowl barrow in Ruins Plantation 200m east of The Retreat
- Field system and settlement on Watcombe Plain
- Two barrows 600yds (550m) N of Halls Farm
- Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
- Bell barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 800m south east of Wood Barn
- Tudor and 17th century farmstead and Romano-British settlement
- Court Close settlement remains
- Bowl barrow 420m north west of Frogmore Farm
- Group of barrows on West Hill
- Medieval settlement of North Louvard
- Culliford Tree long barrow and group of round barrows
- Two bell barrows and a bowl barrow, 200m north east of Haywards Farm
- Earthwork and ancient fields SE of Lyscombe Bottom
- Bowl barrow 550m north west of Bulbarrow Farm
- Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 580m north east of Whitcombe Vale Farm
- Group of four round barrows in Cripton Wood
- Two bowl barrows on Lord's Down 580m south east of Crawthorne Farm
- Bowl barrow 850m west of Weatherby Castle hillfort
- Bowl barrow c.200m NNW of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
- Earthworks SE of Park Wood, including round barrow
- Earthwork SE of Foxpound
- Six bowl barrows on Blacknoll Hill
- Bowl barrow 790m north east of Haywards Farm
- Bowl barrow 900m north west of Lower Farm
- Part of Roman, Saxon, and medieval town in grounds of Wollaston House
- Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House
- Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village
- Round barrow W of Druce Higher Barn
- Three bowl barrows 530m and 350m north east of Whitcombe 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
- Bowl barrow to the west of Five Marys: an outlier to the Five Marys round barrow cemetery
- Medieval standing cross 6m north east of St Martin's Church
- Earthworks on Houghton South Down, including group of three round barrows
- Barrow S of Common Plantation
- Group of round barrows on North Bincombe Hill, S of Came Wood
- Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent
- Seven round barrows NW of Lyscombe Bottom
- Three bowl barrows 230m south west of Haywards Farm
- Bowl barrow 75m south east of Laycock Dairy Farm
- Four bowl barows 710m north, 750m north west and 950m north west of Clyffe House
- Three bowl barrows on Milborne Down 520m and 585m north east of obelisk on Weatherby Castle hillfort
- Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm
- Bowl barrow 650m north west of Long Ash Farm
- Round barrow N of Boswell's Plantation
- Two bowl barrows 640m north of Squibbs Farm
- Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House
- Four bowl barrows 600m east and 650m north east of Haywards Farm
- Mayne stone circle (at Little Mayne Farm)
- Enclosure near 'the Sole Plantation'
- Bingham's Melcombe deserted village
- Two bowl barrows on Drove Hill
- Bell barrow and bowl barrow 580m east of Clyffe House
- Two square enclosures in Tenant's Bottom
- Bowl barrow at Five Marys: an outlier to the Five Marys round barrow cemetery
- The Double Barrow, a bowl barrow in Kite Hill Plantation 250m south east of Roger's Hill Cottages
- Sandy Barrow
- Bowl barrow on Little Puddle Hill, 920m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
- Round barrow S of Manor Farm
- Bowl barrow in Sares Wood, 430m south west of Wood Barn
- Group of round barrows NE of Hog Leaze
- Two round barrows SW of Well House Cottage
- Round barrow N of Heave Coppice
- Group of barrows E of Northdown Barn
- Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill
- Two bowl barrows on Clouds Hill, 90m south west of Lawrence of Arabia's Cottage
- Long barrow 400yds (360m) NW of Hill Barn
- Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn
- Two bowl barrows c.280m north-east of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
- Six round barrows on Bincombe Down
- George III, chalk-cut hill side figure
- Roman road in Kingston Park
- Earthwork S of Meriden Wood, and adjoining round barrow
- Two round barrows at Down Wood
- Melcombe Horsey deserted village
- Deserted town of Milton Abbas
- Two barrows W of Little Piddle Down
- Bell barrow 70m west of Fidler's Green
- Two bowl barrows 85m and 130m south west of Cambrai House
- Medieval settlement immediately west of Waterston House
- Bowl barrow c.240m north of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
- Two bowl barrows 320m south west of Laycock Dairy Farm
- Tadnoll Barrow
- Bowl barrow 70m south east of West End Barn
- Barrow on Galton Heath
- Colliton Park Roman house
- Two bowl barrows 750m east of Clyffe House
- Bowl barrow 150m north east of Dunbury
- Two bowl barrows and two ring ditches 450m north west of Haywards Farm
- Bowl barrow 600m south of Whitcombe Farm
- Bowl barrow in Piddle Wood, 530m north east of Gate Barn
- Medieval settlement of Little Piddle
- Three bowl barrows on Puddletown Heath, 550m south west of Beacon Corner
- Two round barrows in Doles Hill Plantation
- Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill 500m north of Whitcombe Farm
- Henge, Romano-British amphitheatre and Civil War fieldworks known collectively as Maumbury Rings
- Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 140m south east of Cull-peppers Dish
- Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood
- Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 650m north east of Whitcombe Vale Farm
- Field system on Green Down
- Medieval settlement remains at Whitcombe
- Bowl barrow on Green Hill 350m north west of Keepers Cottage
- Barrows in Came Wood
- Four barrows on Moigns Down
- Two bowl barrows 280m north of Clyffe House
- Round barrow on Hog Leaze
- Bowl barrow 520m south east of Nutley Farm
- The Rainbarrows, a group of three bowl barrows on Duddle Heath
- Three round barrows on Puddletown Down
- Bowl barrow on Pond Eweleaze 500m north east of Dole's Ash Farm
- Deserted village of Bardolfeston
- Bowl barrow 400m south east of Melcombe Newton House
- Barrow on College Down
- Medieval settlement remains 800m south of Manor Farm
- Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 640m south of Wood Barn
- Four bowl barrows at the eastern end of Waterston Ridge, 490m south west and 500m south east of Ridge Farm
- Round barrow 250yds (230m) W of Fryer Mayne manor house
- Weatherby Castle, an Iron Age hillfort 1020m north west of Ashley Barn Farm
- Field system and settlement on West Hill, Plush
- Earthwork in Bowley's Plantation
- The Five Marys round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow on Burleston Down 840m south east of Crawthorne Farm
- Oval barrow and three bowl barrows 250m and 330m south of Whitcombe Barn
- Three bowl barrows 380m west of West End Barn
- Bowl barrow 480m south east of West End Barn
- Bowl barrow 350m north west of Gatehouse Farm
- Bowl barrow on East Hill 510m north east of All Saints Church
- Obelisk on Fir Hill
- Camp on Nettlecombe Tout
- Linear earthworks around Lyscombe Bottom
- Three bowl barrows at the western end of Waterston Ridge, 360m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
- Two barrows on Little Puddle Hill
- Bowl barrow in Throop Clump, 450m west of Heatherdown
- Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 95m south of Cull-peppers Dish
Places to see near Puddletown
Lakes near Puddletown
Rivers near Puddletown
- Bow Brook South
- Henstridge Stream
- Allen Trib (Gussage Stream)
- Stour (Headwaters)
- Lydden (Lower)
- Cale
- Caundle Trib (Caundle Marsh)
- Caundle Brook (Upper)
- Stour (Middle u/s Pimperne Brook)
- Bow Brook North
- Divelish
- Tarrant
- Mannington Brook
- Lodden
- Crane (Dorset)
- Stour (Middle d/s Pimperne Brook)
- Lydden (Upper)
- Allen Trib (Crichel Stream)
- Stour Trib (Pimperne Brook)
- Moors
- North Winterbourne
- Allen (Lower)
- Cam (Dorset)
- Stirchell Brook
- Key Brook
- Stour (Upper)
- Bourne Stream
- Lydden (Middle)
- Stour Trib (Bibbern Brook)
- Wonston Brook
- Caundle Brook (Lower)
- Stour (Lower)
- Allen (Headwaters)
- Iwerne
- Manston Brook
- Shreen Water (including Ashfield Water)
- Uddens Water
- Fontmell Brook
- Char
- Monkton Wyld Stream
- Bride
- Mangerton Brook
- Simene
- Swan (Swanage)
- Brit (Upper)
- Asker
- Wey
- Brit (Lower)
- Wraxall Brook
- Sydling Water
- Bere Stream
- Frome Dorset (Lower) u/s Louds Mill Dorchester
- Wareham Forest Stream
- Corfe River
- South Winterbourne
- Piddle (Upper)
- Frome Trib (Luckford Lake)
- Tadnoll Brook (including Empool Bottom)
- Devils Brook
- Frome Dorset (Lower) d/s Louds Mill Dorchester
- Frome Dorset (Upper)
- Cerne
- Hooke
- Piddle (Lower)
- Frome Dorset Trib (River Win)
- Sherford River
- Frome Dorset (Headwaters)
- Wellhams Brook
- Broad
- Stockland Bristol Stream
- Wriggle
- Fivehead River
- Isle - Upper
- Currypool Stream
- Yeo Ds Over Compton
- Corton Denham Stream
- Hornsey Brook
- Closworth Stream
- Ding
- Parrett - R Isle to R Yeo
- Durleigh Brook
- Merriot Stream
- Parrett - headwaters to Broad River
- Parrett - Lopen Bk to R Isle
- Bearley Brook
- Yeo
- Wriggle River
- North Moor Main Drain
- Sutton Bingham Stream - East Arm
- Cary - source to conf with KSD
- Lopen Brook
- Sutton Bingham Stream - upstream conf Closworth Str
- Cannington Bk - Lower
- Isle - Upper to conf Cad Bk
- Fiddington Brook
- Cannington Bk - Upper
- Sutton Bingham Stream - West Arm
- Isle
- West Sedgemoor Main Drain
- Eighteen Feet Rhyne
- Parrett - R Yeo to West Sedgemoor Drain
- Parrett - Broad River to Lopen Bk
- Beer Hackett Stream
- Westmoor Main Drain
- Chinnock BK
- Yeo Us Over Compton
- Isle - Cad Bk to Fivehead River
- Dodham Brook (Yeo (Somset))
- Dowlish Brook
- King's Moor Main Drain (Yeo (Somset)
- Cam - Lower
- Lam Brook
- Stogursey BK
- Petherton Stream
- Cam - Upper
- Cam Tributary
- King's Sedgemoor Drain - Henley Sluice to mouth
- Upper River Otter
- Love
- Tale
- Middle River Otter
- Wolf (Otter)
- Sid
- Lower River Otter
