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.
Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, Wareham, and Blandford Forum are great places to visit near Puddletown if you like towns.
Don't miss Jericho Weir's waterfalls if visiting the area around Puddletown.
There are a number of villages near Puddletown including Uplyme, Bincombe, Symondsbury, and Abbotsbury.
The area around Puddletown's best historic buildings can be found at The Cobb.
The area around Puddletown's best historic monuments can be found at King's Statue (King George III Statue).
The area around Puddletown boasts some of the best ancient sites including Eggardon Hill, Hambledon Hill, Badbury Rings, Kingston Russell Stone Circle, The Nine Stones, and Maiden Castle.
Eggardon Hill is one of Puddletown's best, nearby hills to visit in Puddletown.
Places near Puddletown feature a number of interesting castles including Corfe Castle.
The area around Puddletown's best ruins can be found at Corfe Castle.
There are a several good airports in the area around Puddletown like Bournemouth Airport.
Puddletown History
There are some historic monuments around Puddletown:
- Roman road over Thorncombe Wood and Black Heath
- Two bowl barrows on Clouds Hill, 90m south west of Lawrence of Arabia's Cottage
- Two bowl barrows 320m south west of Laycock Dairy Farm
- Three bowl barrows at the western end of Waterston Ridge, 360m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
- Bowl barrow 900m north west of Lower Farm
- Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village
- Medieval settlement remains 800m south of Manor Farm
- Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn
- Mayne stone circle (at Little Mayne Farm)
- Barrow 200yds (180m) N of the White Horse
- Group of round barrows NE of Hog Leaze
- Henge Enclosure, Conquer Barrow and Barrow Cemetery
- Bowl barrow 850m west of Weatherby Castle hillfort
- Two round barrows in Doles Hill Plantation
- Linear earthworks around Lyscombe Bottom
- Field system on Green Down
- Group of barrows E of Northdown Barn
- Two round barrows SW of Well House Cottage
- Earthwork SE of Foxpound
- Deserted town of Milton Abbas
- Seven round barrows NW of Lyscombe Bottom
- Medieval standing cross 6m north east of St Martin's Church
- Bowl barrow 550m north west of Bulbarrow Farm
- Dorchester Roman walls
- Bowl barrow 230m south of Bulbarrow Farm
- Bowl barrow 600m south of Whitcombe Farm
- Bowl barrow 70m south east of West End Barn
- Bowl barrow 400m south east of Melcombe Newton House
- Three bowl barrows on Milborne Down 520m and 585m north east of obelisk on Weatherby Castle hillfort
- Six round barrows on Bincombe Down
- Stable Barrow 230m NNE of Frogmore Farm
- Two round barrows N of Came Farm
- Two bowl barrows 750m east of Clyffe House
- Camp on Nettlecombe Tout
- Round barrow W of Druce Higher Barn
- Round barrow cemetery on Deverel Down 380m west of Longthorns
- Roman road in Kingston Park
- Bowl barrow 380m north west of Hyford Cottage
- Bowl barrow c.200m NNW of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
- Barrows in Came Wood
- The Five Marys round barrow cemetery
- Bell barrow 70m west of Fidler's Green
- Lord's Barrow: a bowl barrow 500m north of Northground Dairy
- Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 140m south east of Cull-peppers Dish
- Part of Roman, Saxon, and medieval town in grounds of Wollaston House
- Enclosure near 'the Sole Plantation'
- Three bowl barrows 530m and 350m north east of Whitcombe Barn
- Medieval settlement of Winterborne Farringdon and associated remains
- Bell barrow and bowl barrow 580m east of Clyffe House
- Four bowl barows 710m north, 750m north west and 950m north west of Clyffe House
- Bowl barrow on Green Hill 350m north west of Keepers Cottage
- The Rainbarrows, a group of three bowl barrows on Duddle Heath
- Oval barrow and three bowl barrows 250m and 330m south of Whitcombe Barn
- Round barrow SW of Wolfeton Clump
- Bowl barrow 350m north west of Gatehouse Farm
- Field system and settlement on West Hill, Plush
- Bell barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 800m south east of Wood Barn
- George III, chalk-cut hill side figure
- Bowl barrow at Five Marys: an outlier to the Five Marys round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow on East Hill 510m north east of All Saints Church
- Round barrow on Hog Leaze
- Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor
- Three bowl barrows 380m west of West End Barn
- Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent
- Bowl barrow 650m north west of Long Ash Farm
- Barrow S of Tinker's Barrow Plantation
- Barrow on College Down
- Two bowl barrows c.280m north-east of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
- Two bowl barrows on Drove Hill
- Two barrows on Little Puddle Hill
- Bowl barrow 330m south east of Nutley Farm
- Two barrows W of Little Piddle Down
- Barrow S of Common Plantation
- Bowl barrow on Pond Eweleaze 500m north east of Dole's Ash Farm
- Two bowl barrows 85m and 130m south west of Cambrai House
- Bowl barrow in Piddle Wood, 530m north east of Gate Barn
- Two bowl barrows 640m north of Squibbs Farm
- Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 600m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
- Bowl barrow in Sares Wood, 430m south west of Wood Barn
- Earthworks SE of Park Wood, including round barrow
- Two barrows 600yds (550m) N of Halls Farm
- Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House
- Obelisk on Fir Hill
- Earthworks on Houghton South Down, including group of three round barrows
- Six bowl barrows on Blacknoll Hill
- Bowl barrow 550m WNW of West End Barn
- Court Close settlement remains
- Bowl barrow 450m east of Dennet's Bottom Barn
- Medieval settlement of Little Piddle
- Two bowl barrows and two ring ditches 450m north west of Haywards Farm
- Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 95m south of Cull-peppers Dish
- Round barrow N of Heave Coppice
- Round barrow 250yds (230m) W of Fryer Mayne manor house
- Bowl barrow to the west of Five Marys: an outlier to the Five Marys round barrow cemetery
- Medieval settlement 350m east of West Burton Dairy
- Four barrows on Moigns Down
- Ancient settlement E of Lyscombe Bottom
- Bowl barrow on Plush Hill 740m ESE of Lower Farm, Plush
- Two bowl barrows on Lord's Down 580m south east of Crawthorne Farm
- Earthwork in Bowley's Plantation
- Bingham's Melcombe deserted village
- Round barrow N of Boswell's Plantation
- Group of round barrows on North Bincombe Hill, S of Came Wood
- Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill
- The Double Barrow, a bowl barrow in Kite Hill Plantation 250m south east of Roger's Hill Cottages
- Barrow S of Wolfeton Clump
- Medieval settlement immediately west of Waterston House
- Bowl barrow 615m north east of Hardy's Birthplace
- Bowl barrow 75m south east of Laycock Dairy Farm
- Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 650m south east of Wood Barn
- Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House
- Bowl barrow 520m south east of Nutley Farm
- Round barrow W of Ashley Barn
- Medieval settlement at Holworth
- Culliford Tree long barrow and group of round barrows
- Bowl barrow in Throop Clump, 450m west of Heatherdown
- Medieval settlement remains at Whitcombe
- Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill
- Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 580m north east of Whitcombe Vale Farm
- Cultivation remains on Thomas's Hill and E of Hilton
- Tudor and 17th century farmstead and Romano-British settlement
- Earthwork and ancient fields SE of Lyscombe Bottom
- Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood
- Round barrow on Cheselbourne West Down
- Deserted village of Bardolfeston
- Bowl barrow on Affpuddle Heath, 640m south of Wood Barn
- Two bowl barrows 280m north of Clyffe House
- Bowl barrow c.240m north of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
- Two square enclosures in Tenant's Bottom
- Bell barrow and two bowl barrows on Old Knowle, 835m NNW of Whitcombe Vale Farm
- Bowl barrow in Ruins Plantation 200m east of The Retreat
- Field system and settlement on Watcombe Plain
- Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 600m west of Stafford Farm
- Bowl barrow on Burleston Down 840m south east of Crawthorne Farm
- Barrow on Galton Heath
- Bowl barrow 150m north east of Dunbury
- Milton Park boundary bank
- Roman road W of Ashley Barn
- Bowl barrow 300m south east of Hyford Cottage
- Bowl barrow 790m 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
- Round barrow on Church Hill
- Medieval settlement of North Louvard
- Three bowl barrows 230m south west of Haywards Farm
- Earthwork on Church Hill
- Tadnoll Barrow
- Round barrow S of Manor Farm
- Bowl barrow 480m south east of West End Barn
- Bowl barrow on Little Puddle Hill, 920m north west of Fidler's Green Farm
- Two round barrows at Down Wood
- Two bell barrows and a bowl barrow, 200m north east of Haywards Farm
- 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 on Whitcombe Hill, 650m north east of Whitcombe Vale Farm
- Weatherby Castle, an Iron Age hillfort 1020m north west of Ashley Barn Farm
- Earthwork S of Meriden Wood, and adjoining round barrow
- Group of four round barrows in Cripton Wood
- Round barrow SW of Bourne Farm
- 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, 970m south east of Wood Barn
- Four bowl barrows 600m east and 650m north east of Haywards Farm
- Melcombe Horsey deserted village
- Bowl barrow 420m north west of Frogmore Farm
- Three bowl barrows on Puddletown Heath, 550m south west of Beacon Corner
- Group of barrows on West Hill
- Lyscombe Farm chapel
- Sandy Barrow
- Colliton Park Roman house
- Three round barrows on Puddletown Down
- Long barrow 400yds (360m) NW of Hill Barn
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
