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Village · United Kingdom · England

# Brockenhurst

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Brockenhurst

One place 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. Lymington River SSSI UK Site of Special Scientific Interest 800 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymington_River_SSSI)

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 Brockenhurst

**Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 101 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 104 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 106 km\
**Stations:** Brockenhurst railway station, 300 m\

- London → Brockenhurst 127 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £14–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-brockenhurst) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Brockenhurst)
- Bristol → Brockenhurst 100 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-brockenhurst) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Brockenhurst)
- Cardiff → Brockenhurst 134 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-brockenhurst) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Brockenhurst)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Brockenhurst)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Brockenhurst

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in There is also a branch line railway from Brockenhurst to Lymington, principally to provide connections with the ferry service from there to the Isle of Wight.
- Get in From the south, you can reach Lymington from the Isle of Wight by the Wightlink car and passenger ferry which runs every half-hour.
- Get in The Hythe Ferry operates a half-hourly passenger ferry and pier tram service across Southampton Water from Town Quay, Southampton to the small town of Hythe, on the eastern edge of the New Forest.
- Get in During the 12-minute journey, if they are in port, the ferry passes the berth of the liner Queen Mary II.

From [Wikivoyage: New Forest](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/New_Forest), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 24 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 220 km
3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 524 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 580 km
5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 614 km

If you know how people move in Brockenhurst – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cbrockenhurst&title=Brockenhurst&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fbrockenhurst), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Brockenhurst

- [Balmerlawn](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/balmerlawn) village in Hampshire, England, UK 900 m

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