Chiswell is a Village in the county of Dorset.

Chiswell postcode: DT5 1AN

Retail in Chiswell

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

Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, and Wareham are great places to visit near Chiswell if you like towns.

Jericho Weir is a great place to visit close to Chiswell if you like waterfalls.

Villages to visit near Chiswell include Uplyme, Bincombe, and Symondsbury.

Chiswell is near some unmissable historic buildings like The Cobb,

There are a number of historic monuments near to Chiswell including King's Statue (King George III Statue).

Eggardon Hill is one of Chiswell's best, nearby ancient sites to visit in Chiswell.

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

Don't miss Corfe Castle's castles if visiting the area around Chiswell.

Corfe Castle is one of Chiswell's best, nearby ruins to visit in Chiswell.

Airports to visit near Chiswell include Bournemouth Airport.

Chiswell History

There are some historic monuments around Chiswell:

• Upton Fort, a coastal artillery battery and two searchlight emplacements
• 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
• Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy
• Mesolithic sites near Culver Well
• Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery (P3 Verne), 275m south-west of Fancy's Farm
• Portland open fields
• Two barrows 600yds (550m) N of Halls Farm
• Preston Roman villa
• Sandsfoot Castle
• Langton Cross: a wayside cross 850m south west of Tatton House
• George III, chalk-cut hill side figure
• Three barrows S of Poxwell Big Wood
• The Verne Citadel
• Group of barrows on West Hill
• Group of barrows E of Northdown Barn
• Portland Castle
• Rufus Castle
• Battery 200yds (180m) E of the Naval cemetery
• East Weare rifle range
• Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village
• Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill
• Medieval settlement at West Ringstead
• Icehouse at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House
• Barrow 200yds (180m) N of the White Horse
• Portland Bill stone loading quay
• Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole
• Lime kiln 800ft (245m) NW of Langton Cross
• Fishpond at West Ringstead, 590m south of Pit House
• Nothe Fort, tramway and searchlight battery at The Nothe
• RAF Portland, site of Rotor early warning radar station
• Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill
• Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor