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Burton and Winkton

Burton and Winkton is a civil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in Dorset, England.

Burton and Winkton
Burton and Winkton · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Burton and Winkton is a civil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in Dorset, England. It includes Burton and Winkton. In 2011 the parish had a population of 4347. The parish was renamed from "Burton" to "Burton and Winkton" on 31 March 2019.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Burton and Winkton

9 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
    Christchurch Castle

    Christchurch Castle is a Norman motte and bailey castle in Christchurch, Dorset, England. The earliest stonework has been dated to 1160.

    3 km · castle, now ruinous, in Christchurch, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Christchurch Priory

    Christchurch Priory is an ecclesiastical parish and former priory church in Christchurch in the English county of Dorset. It is one of the longest parish churches in the country and is as large as many of the Church of England Cathedrals.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Christchurch, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Highcliffe Castle

    Highcliffe Castle, situated on the cliffs at Highcliffe, Dorset, was built between 1831 and 1835 by Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay in a Romantic and Picturesque, Gothic Revival style near the site of High Cliff House, a Georgian Mansion designed for the 3rd Earl of Bute with the gardens laid out by Capability Brown. The design, by William Donthorne, a founder member of RIBA, incorporated large quantities of carved Medieval stonework salvaged from the ruined Benedictine Abbey of St Peter at Jumieges and the Grand' Maison des Andelys, both situated in Normandy, France.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Highcliffe and Walkford, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hinton Admiral

    Hinton Admiral is the estate and ancestral home of the Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick family and located in the settlement of Hinton, near Bransgore in Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I Listed building.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed English country house in New Forest District, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Town Hall

    The Town Hall, Christchurch is a municipal building in Christchurch, Dorset, England. The building, which incorporates a room known as the mayor's parlour on the first floor, and is a Grade II listed building.

    2.9 km · town hall in Christchurch, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Red House Museum and Gardens

    The Red House Museum and Gardens is a museum of local history located in Christchurch, Dorset. The red-brick Georgian building was constructed in 1764 as the parish workhouse.

    3.2 km · Museum in Christchurch, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Burton Common

    Burton Common is a 32.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Bransgore in Hampshire. This dry heath has over-mature heather with a rich bryophyte and lichen flora.

    2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St John's Church, Purewell

    St John's Church is a Church of England mission church in Purewell, Dorset, England. It was built in 1880–81.

    2.5 km · church in Purewell, Dorset · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Parish Church of St Luke

    St. Luke's Church is a Church of England parish church in Burton, Dorset, England.

    800 m · church building in Burton, Christchurch, Dorset, 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.

Go there

Getting to Burton and Winkton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 97 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 118 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 120 km
Stations
Hinton Admiral railway station, 3.1 km · Christchurch railway station, 3 km · Christchurch Harbour, 3.9 km
  • London → Burton and Winkton
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £15–19
  • Bristol → Burton and Winkton
    97 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £12–15
  • Cardiff → Burton and Winkton
    128 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Burton and Winkton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextGood location for day trips to the New Forest, Lymington and Beaulieu.

From Wikivoyage: Christchurch (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    33 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    209 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    539 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    581 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    606 km

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