Fawley, Hampshire
Fawley is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England.
Fawley is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. It is situated in the New Forest on the western shore of the Solent, approximately 7 miles south of Southampton. Fawley is also the site of Fawley Refinery, operated by ExxonMobil, which is the largest facility of its kind in the United Kingdom. The decommissioned Fawley Power Station is also located less than a mile to the south east of the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Fawley, Hampshire
7 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.
- 01Calshot Castle
Calshot Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII on the Calshot Spit, Hampshire, England, between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire and defend Southampton Water as it met the Solent.
3.3 km · artillery fort on the Calshot Spit, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Andrew's Castle
St Andrew's Castle was an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, between 1542 and 1543. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended Southampton Water near the Solent.
3.7 km · artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, between 1542 and 1543 · Wikipedia - 03Hamble Common
Hamble Common is a Public Park, Public Common and Scheduled Monument in Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, not too far from Southampton. The site is 22-hectare and formerly hosted an Iron Age settlement as well as a Tudor Castle.
3.6 km · park in Hamble-le-Rice, Eastleigh, Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Warsash Maritime School
Warsash Maritime School, formerly Warsash Maritime Centre and Warsash Maritime Academy, is a maritime training college that is part of Solent University. The college provides education, training, consultancy and research to the international shipping and off-shore oil industries.
3.9 km · British maritime training college · Wikipedia - 05Church of All Saints
All Saints' Church is the parish church for Fawley in the county of Hampshire. It is one of the three original medieval parish churches along the area to the west of Southampton Water know locally as the Waterside.
200 m · Grade I listed church in Fawley, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Hythe to Calshot Marshes
Hythe to Calshot Marshes is a 591.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the west bank of Southampton Water between Calshot and Marchwood in Hampshire. It is part of Solent and Southampton Water Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and of Solent Maritime Special Area of Conservation.
1.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 07Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary
Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary is a 585.9-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Southampton and Gosport in Hampshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fawley, Hampshire
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 89 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 95 km · Bristol (BRS), 113 km
- Stations
- Fawley railway station, 800 m
- London → Fawley, Hampshire91 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £10–14
- Bristol → Fawley, Hampshire81 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Fawley, Hampshire80 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £13–17
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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 Fawley, Hampshire. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHowever, you can reach Hythe easily from the stations at Lymington and Southampton (via bus or ferry).
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