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Ferndown

Ferndown is a town and civil parish in Dorset in southern England.

Ferndown
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The place

Ferndown is a town and civil parish in Dorset in southern England. It lies immediately to the north of Bournemouth and Poole, and about 4 miles (6 km) east of Wimborne Minster. The parish, which until 1986 was called Hampreston, includes the communities of Ameysford, Hampreston, Longham, Stapehill and Trickett's Cross. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 17,501.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ferndown

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
    Canford Magna Parish Church

    The Canford Magna Parish Church in Canford Magna, Dorset, England – possibly dedicated to St Augustine – is a mixture of Saxon, Norman and Mid Gothic architecture. English Heritage have designated it a Grade I listed building.

    4.6 km · church in Poole, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Andrew

    St. Andrew's Church is a Grade II* listed historic parish church in Kinson, Bournemouth, Dorset.

    4.3 km · church in Kinson, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bournemouth Aviation Museum

    The Bournemouth Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located next to Bournemouth International Airport, near the village of Hurn in Christchurch, England. It houses a number of aircraft, aero engines, cockpits, and a limited number of ground vehicles.

    5.5 km · aviation museum · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in the town of Ferndown, Dorset.

    1.2 km · church in Ferndown, Dorset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kinson Cemetery

    Kinson Cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Kinson, a suburb of Bournemouth, England. The cemetery is owned by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council.

    5.3 km · historic cemetery in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    All Saints Church, Hampreston

    All Saints Church is the Church of England parish church of Hampreston, Dorset, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.9 km · church in Hampreston, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lady Wimborne Bridge

    The Lady Wimborne Bridge is a former railway bridge built in 1853, and now a listed building. Its highly ornate design reflects the power of landowners over British railway companies in the mid-nineteenth century.

    5.7 km · bridge in Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Longham United Reform Church

    Longham United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed United Reformed church near Longham near Ferndown in Dorset, England.

    2.7 km · church building in Ferndown Town, East Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Moors Valley Country Park

    Moors Valley Country Park, officially Moors Valley Country Park and Forest, is a Country Park jointly managed by Dorset Council and Forestry England. It is situated in Ashley Heath, Dorset on the border with Hampshire, in the south of England.

    5.7 km · country park in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Adventure Wonderland

    Adventure Wonderland was a family theme park situated in the village of Hurn, near Bournemouth, United Kingdom. The park offered rides and attractions aimed at families with children up to the age of 10.

    5.4 km · Theme park in Hurn, Dorset, England · 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 Ferndown

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 85 km · Cardiff (CWL), 120 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 124 km
Stations
Bournemouth Airport, 5.2 km · Ashley Heath Halt railway station, 5.4 km · West Moors railway station, 2 km
  • Bristol → Ferndown
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £10–13
  • London → Ferndown
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
  • Cardiff → Ferndown
    116 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £16–21
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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 Ferndown

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextOne option is to take the open top bus via the Sandbanks ferry in the summer for approx £5 from central Bournemouth and change at Swanage.

From Wikivoyage: Bournemouth, 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

    44 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    198 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    544 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    572 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    594 km

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

Around it

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