Hedge End
Hedge End is a town and civil parish in Hampshire, England.
Hedge End is a town and civil parish in Hampshire, England. Situated to the east of the City of Southampton, it adjoins the districts of West End and Botley. Hedge End lies within the Borough of Eastleigh and is part of the Southampton Urban Area. The original hamlet developed on Botley Common after 1250 when it was granted to the men of Botley as common pasture. In 1267, royal charters allowed Botley to hold an annual fair and a weekly market on the common which eventually became a market town.
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Worth seeing in and around Hedge End
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.
- 01Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl, known for sponsorship reasons as Utilita Bowl, is a cricket ground and hotel complex in West End, Hampshire. It is the home of Hampshire County Cricket Club, who have played there since 2001.
1.7 km · cricket ground and residential hotel complex · Wikipedia - 02Brooklands
Brooklands is an 18th-century country house in Sarisbury in Fareham in the English county of Hampshire. The grounds of the house overlook the River Hamble.
4 km · house in Sarisbury, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel
Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel is a Strict Baptist place of worship in Lower Swanwick, a village in the Borough of Fareham in Hampshire, England. It has been in continuous use for worship since 1844, when it succeeded a converted boat-shed which had become unsuitable.
3.6 km · chapel in Lower Swanwick, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Brickworks Museum
The Brickworks Museum, also known as Bursledon Brickworks, is a volunteer-run museum in Swanwick, Hampshire, England. It is described as the UK's sole surviving Victorian steam-driven brickworks.
3.2 km · building in Swanwick, Fareham, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Itchen College
Itchen Sixth Form College is a mixed sixth form college in Bitterne, Southampton, Hampshire, England. It was established in 1906 and was originally a mixed secondary school, it later became Itchen Grammar School under the reforms of the Butler Education Act.
3.8 km · college in Southampton, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St James
St James' Church in West End, Hampshire is an Anglican parish church in the Borough of Eastleigh. The church building is grade II listed.
2.7 km · church building in West End, Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of All Saints
All Saints is an Anglican church in the centre of the village of Botley, in Hampshire, England. Built in the 1830s to replace a church, St Bartholomew's, south of the village, it was expanded in 1859 and the 1890s.
2.1 km · church building in Botley, Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08River Hamble Country Park
River Hamble Country Park is a 144.1-hectare country park which runs along the west bank of the River Hamble between the villages of Botley and Bursledon in Hampshire. It is owned by Hampshire County Council and managed by Hampshire Countryside Service.
2.2 km · Park in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 09Moorgreen Meadows
Moorgreen Meadows is a 14.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Southampton in Hampshire. These meadows are important for their populations of the genus marsh orchid, especially the northern marsh orchid, which is not found at any other location in southern England.
1.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hedge End
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 82 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 85 km · Bristol (BRS), 111 km
- Stations
- Bursledon railway station, 3.3 km · Hedge End railway station, 2.3 km · Botley railway station, 3.2 km
- London → Hedge End105 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £12–16
- Bristol → Hedge End109 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Hedge End124 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–19
- 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 Hedge End
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 Hedge End. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe CityLink bus runs from the station via the Westquay shopping centre to Town Quay, where the catamaran to the Isle of Wight and the ferry to Hythe depart.
- Get inThere are no international ferry services: these call in Portsmouth about to the east.
- Get inHowever, regular vehicle and passenger ferries operate to Southampton from Cowes on the nearby Isle of Wight and the village of Hythe in the New Forest.
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Next door to Hedge End
- Curdridgevillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Bursledonvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, United Kingdom3.2 km
- West Endvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England, UK2.7 km
- Botleyvillage in Hampshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Curbridgevillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Lower Swanwickvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom3.2 km