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Binsted

Binsted is a village and civil parish in East Hampshire, England.

Binsted
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The place

Binsted is a village and civil parish in East Hampshire, England. It is about 4.1 miles (6.6 km) east of Alton, its nearest town. The parish is one of the largest in northern Hampshire and covers almost 7,000 acres (2,800 ha). It contains two villages, Bucks Horn Oak and Holt Pound, as well as the hamlets, South Hay, Wyck and Wheatley. The parish also covers the entirety of the Alice Holt Forest, a royal forest situated near the border with Surrey. The nearest railway station is Bentley, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) northeast of the village. According to the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 1,926 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Binsted

3 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
    Pax Hill

    Pax Hill, near Bentley, Hampshire, England, was the family home of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, and his wife, Olave, for over twenty years during the 20th century. It is located at the end of a half-mile drive, off the main A31 road.

    3.2 km · house in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hillfort on King John's Hill

    King John's Hill is the site of an Iron Age hillfort located in Hampshire, in southeast England. The hill is situated in the parish of Worldham, in East Hampshire District.

    3.7 km · site of an Iron Age hillfort located in Hampshire, in southeast England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bentley Station Meadow

    Bentley Station Meadow is a 5.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Bentley in Hampshire. This area of unimproved herb-rich grassland is dominated by cock's-foot, Yorkshire fog and tufted hairgrass.

    2.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to Binsted

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 46 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 50 km · London Luton (LTN), 87 km
Stations
Bentley railway station, 2.9 km · Kingsley Halt railway station, 2.7 km
  • London → Binsted
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £7–10
  • Luton, Luton → Binsted
    86 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £10–13
  • London, Essex → Binsted
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Binsted

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 Binsted. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    60 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    263 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    464 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    601 km

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

Around it

Next door to Binsted

Binsted is 33 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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