Visit Charminster Places

Welcome to Visit Charminster Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Charminster

  

Charminster Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Charminster

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You can visit Charminster places with Walkfo Charminster to hear history at Charminster’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Charminster has 52 places to visit in our interactive Charminster map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Charminster, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Charminster places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Charminster & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 52 audio facts unique to Charminster places in an interactive Charminster map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Charminster Places Map
52 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Charminster historic spots	Charminster tourist destinations	Charminster plaques	Charminster geographic features
Walkfo Charminster tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Charminster

  

Best Charminster places to visit

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Charminster has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Charminster’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Charminster’s information audio spots:

Poundbury Hill Poundbury Hill hill fort (grid reference SY682911) is the site of a Middle Bronze Age enclosure . It overlooks the county town of Dorchester, Dorset, England .

Durnovaria Durnovaria is a suggested spelling for the Latin form of the name of the Roman town of Dorchester in the modern English county of Dorset . It is suggested that the first element in the name, *durno- may mean “fist” like (Welsh dwrn ‘fist, knob’) and the second may be related to Old Irish fáir ~ fóir denoting a confined area or den .

Dorchester Castle Dorchester Castle was a motte and bailey castle in the market town of Dorchester, Dorset, southern England (grid reference SY692909)

Kingston Maurward House Kingston Maurward House is a large Grade I listed Georgian English country house set in a 750-acre (3 square km) estate in Dorset . It is situated in the Frome valley two miles east of Dorchester .

Herrison Hospital Herrison Hospital was a mental health facility in Charminster, Dorset. It was located on the outskirts of Charminster in the Dorset town.

Maumbury Rings Maumbury Rings is a Neolithic henge in the south of Dorchester town in Dorset, England (grid reference SY690899) It is a large circular earthwork, 85 metres in diameter, with a single bank and entrance to the north east. It was modified during the Roman period when it was adapted for use as an amphitheatre. The site was remodelled during the English Civil War as an artillery fort guarding the southern approach to Dorchester.

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