Boldre
Boldre is a village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England.
Boldre is a village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England. It is in the south of the New Forest National Park, above the broadening (estuary) of the Lymington River, two miles (3 km) north of Lymington. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,931, and in the 2011 census, 2,003. The parish has a few campsites and a tourist caravan site, along with visitor parking around its mixed woodland and heath hamlet of Norley Wood.
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Worth seeing in and around Boldre
4 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.
- 01Walhampton
Walhampton is a hamlet in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Boldre.
2.9 km · hamlet in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Church of St. Thomas the Apostle
The Church of St Thomas the Apostle in Lymington in Hampshire, is the main Anglican Church of England parish church for the town. There has been a church on the site for 800 years and the original foundations are believed to date to the reign of Henry III but was largely rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries.
2.8 km · grade II listed church in Lymington, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery
St Barbe Museum + Art Gallery is a local museum and art gallery in Lymington, Hampshire, England. Enclosed in the building is a small cafe called 'The Old School Cafe', a gift shop, multi-use room named 'The Mac Carthy Room', a museum showcasing artefacts and historical information about the Lymington and the New Forest, and a medium-sized gallery, used for art and historical exhibitions.
2.7 km · museum in Lymington, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Lymington River SSSI
Lymington River SSSI is a 34.8-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest along Lymington River and its tributaries between Lymington, Burley and Stoney Cross in Hampshire. Highland Water is a Geological Conservation Review site and Ober Water is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Parts of the site are in The New Forest and Solent and Southampton Water Ramsar sites, and in The New Forest Special Protection Area.
3.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Boldre
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 104 km · Bristol (BRS), 105 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 108 km
- Stations
- Lymington Town railway station, 2.6 km · Lymington Pier railway station, 3.2 km · Sway railway station, 4 km · Ampress railway station, 1.2 km
- London → Boldre127 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–19
- Bristol → Boldre107 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £12–17
- Cardiff → Boldre140 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £19–25
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Boldre
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 Boldre. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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- Battramsleyhamlet in Hampshire, England, UK1.2 km