Colden Common
Colden Common is a civil parish in the Winchester District of Hampshire, England, approximately 5 miles south of the city of Winchester, covering an area of 690.74 hectares (2.6670 sq mi) with a resident population of approximately 4,000 people.
Colden Common is a civil parish in the Winchester District of Hampshire, England, approximately 5 miles south of the city of Winchester, covering an area of 690.74 hectares (2.6670 sq mi) with a resident population of approximately 4,000 people. It includes the village of Colden Common and the hamlets of Hensting, Fisher's Pond, Nob's Crook, Highbridge and Brambridge. Part of the parish lies within the South Downs National Park.
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Worth seeing in and around Colden Common
3 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.
- 01Marwell Zoo
Marwell Zoo is a 140-acre zoo situated in Colden Common near Winchester, in the English county of Hampshire. It is owned and run by the registered charity Marwell Wildlife.
2.6 km · zoo situated at Owslebury near Winchester in England · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary, Twyford
St Mary's Church, Twyford is a Church of England parish church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the village of Twyford, Hampshire.
2.8 km · church in Twyford, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Mary's Church, Bishopstoke
The Church of St Mary's is an Anglican Church in Bishopstoke, Hampshire. St Mary's was designed by Edward Prioleau Warren and built during 1890/91 by Wheeler Bros.
2.9 km · grade II listed church in Bishopstoke, Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Colden Common
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 79 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 81 km · Bristol (BRS), 107 km
- Stations
- Shawford railway station, 2.9 km
- London → Colden Common100 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–14
- Bristol → Colden Common103 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £13–18
- Luton, Luton → Colden Common116 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–17
- 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 Colden Common
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 Colden Common. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPortsmouth is a major international ferry port, and receives ferries from Jersey and Guernsey (in the Channel Islands), Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre and St.
- Get inOther nearby south coast ports with ferry service from the continent are Dover, Newhaven, and Poole.
- Get aroundPortsmouth is linked to Gosport by a frequent passenger ferry.
- Get aroundThere are also hovercraft, passenger and car ferry crossings to various towns on the Isle of Wight from Lymington, Southampton, and Portsmouth.
- Go nextThe Isle of Wight is an easy ferry trip from Portsmouth, Southampton or Lymington.
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Next door to Colden Common
Colden Common is 56 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Twyfordvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England2.7 km
- Otterbournevillage and civil parish in Hampshire, UK2.3 km
- Owsleburyvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England, UK3.5 km
- Bishopstokevillage and civil parish in Hampshire, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Allbrooksuburb and civil parish in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England3.2 km
- Compton and Shawfordcivil parish in the City of Winchester, Hampshire, England3 km