Bishops Waltham
Bishop's Waltham is a medieval market town situated at the source of the River Hamble in Hampshire, England.
Bishop's Waltham is a medieval market town situated at the source of the River Hamble in Hampshire, England. It has a foot in the South Downs National Park and is located at the midpoint of a long-established route between Winchester and Portsmouth. It is home to the ruins of Bishop's Waltham Palace, a Scheduled Ancient Monument under English Heritage management, and a well-preserved high street with many listed buildings which now house independent shops.
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Worth seeing in and around Bishops Waltham
5 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.
- 01Galley Down Wood
Galley Down Wood is a 16.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire. This wood, which was planted with beech trees in around 1930, has a well developed beech flora.
2.3 km · geological site in England · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Barnabas
The Church of St Barnabas is the Church of England parish church of Swanmore near Southampton in Hampshire, England. It was constructed in 1844 and is a grade II listed building.
2.4 km · church in Swanmore, Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary and All Saints
The Church of St Mary and All Saints is an Anglican church in the village of Droxford, in Hampshire, England. It is in the Diocese of Portsmouth, and is one of the churches of the Meon Bridge Benefice.
5.4 km · Grade I listed church in Droxford, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04New Place, Shirrell Heath
New Place, Shirrell Heath, Shedfield, Hampshire, England, is a former country house, now a hotel, designed by Edwin Lutyens. It is a Grade I listed building.
4.1 km · country house hotel in Hampshire, UK · Wikipedia - 05Bishop's Waltham Palace
Bishop's Waltham Palace is a moated Bishop's Palace ruin in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England.
300 m · palace ruins in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bishops Waltham
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 75 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km · Bristol (BRS), 115 km
- Stations
- Botley railway station, 5.2 km
- London → Bishops Waltham98 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £11–15
- Bristol → Bishops Waltham111 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–19
- Luton, Luton → Bishops Waltham117 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bishops Waltham
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 Bishops Waltham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe CityLink bus runs from the station via the Westquay shopping centre to Town Quay, where the catamaran to the Isle of Wight and the ferry to Hythe depart.
- Get inThere are no international ferry services: these call in Portsmouth about to the east.
- Get inHowever, regular vehicle and passenger ferries operate to Southampton from Cowes on the nearby Isle of Wight and the village of Hythe in the New Forest.
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Next door to Bishops Waltham
Bishops Waltham is 58 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Curdridgevillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England, UK4.5 km
- Swanmorevillage and civil parish in Hampshire, UK2.6 km
- Droxfordvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England4 km
- Uphamvillage and parish in Hampshire, England3.5 km
- Sobertonvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, UK5.8 km