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Bashley, Hampshire

Bashley is a chapelry in the New Forest in the south west of Hampshire, England.

Bashley, Hampshire
Bashley, Hampshire · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bashley is a chapelry in the New Forest in the south west of Hampshire, England. It takes up the north of New Milton civil parish of a type having a town council, and is a semi-rural community in New Forest District, to which it contributes about a quarter of the population of the ward of the same name. Bashley begins 2 miles (3 km) inland from the Solent. Most of its modest population is in its holiday park which has a chain-based convenience shop. Bashley has two garden centres, both football and cricket clubs, a few guesthouses, two riding schools/centres, a post office/store and a petrol station. Within the forest commons across cattle grids in its former hamlet of Wootton which has a large listed building pub-restaurant, once a drovers' retreat.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bashley, Hampshire

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    New Milton Town Hall

    New Milton Town Hall is a municipal building in Ashley Road in New Milton, a town in Hampshire, in England. The building accommodates the offices and meeting place of New Milton Town Council.

    2.3 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum

    The Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum is an independent museum in New Milton, Hampshire, England. It was set up in 1964, after the former championship winning observed trials rider Sammy Miller set up a parts business in New Milton.

    1.3 km · motorcycle museum in New Milton, Hampshire · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bashley, Hampshire

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 100 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 111 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km
Stations
Sway railway station, 3.8 km · New Milton railway station, 2 km · Holmsley railway station, 3.6 km
  • London → Bashley, Hampshire
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £14–19
  • Bristol → Bashley, Hampshire
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–15
  • Cardiff → Bashley, Hampshire
    132 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £18–23
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bashley, Hampshire

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bashley, Hampshire. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundNonetheless, that doesn't stop you from boarding the train at Lymington Town to get down to the pier station for the ferry service, or using the bus services above to get to local areas.
  • Go next— Wightlink offers a 40-minute ferry to Yarmouth.

From Wikivoyage: Lymington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    27 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    215 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    532 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    582 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    611 km

If you know how people move in Bashley, Hampshire – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bashley, Hampshire

  • New Miltontown in Hampshire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Hordlevillage in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Barton on Seavillage in Hampshire, England3.5 km
  • Ashleyvillage in New Forest, Hampshire, UK2.4 km
  • Tiptoevillage in Hampshire, England, UK1.7 km
  • Hintonhamlet in Hampshire, UK3 km