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Canford Heath

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Worth seeing in and around Canford Heath

10 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
    St Dunstan of Canterbury Orthodox Church

    Grade II* listed church in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, England, UK

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Longfleet

    Church in Poole, UK

    3.2 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Lighthouse

    Arts centre (concert hall, theatre and cinema) in Poole, Dorset, UK

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Splashdown Waterpark

    Water park in Poole, Dorset, England

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Merley House

    Grade I listed building in Poole, United Kingdom

    4 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St George's Church

    Church in Poole, Dorset, England, UK

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Poole Magistrates' Court

    Building in Dorset, England

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dolphin Shopping Centre

    Shopping centre and sports venue

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Peter

    Church in Poole, UK

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Upton House

    House in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England, UK

    3.4 km · 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 Canford Heath

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 88 km · Cardiff (CWL), 120 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 132 km
Stations
Parkstone railway station, 3.4 km · Poole railway station, 3.7 km · Creekmoor Halt railway station, 2.3 km · Broadstone railway station, 2.3 km
  • Bristol → Canford Heath
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £10–14
  • London → Canford Heath
    154 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £16–21
  • Cardiff → Canford Heath
    117 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Canford Heath

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDaily ferry services from Poole Harbour run to Cherbourg in France as well as Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

From Wikivoyage: Poole, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    47 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    195 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    552 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    577 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    593 km

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

Around it

Next door to Canford Heath

  • Pooletown, seaport and civil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England4 km
  • Broadstonetown and civil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England2.1 km
  • Merleyvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km
  • Oakleyvillage in Dorset, England3.8 km
  • Creekmoorsuburb in Poole, Dorset, England, UK2.6 km
  • Whitecliffvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.9 km