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Hursley

Hursley is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England with a population of around 900 in 2011.

Hursley
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The place

Hursley is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England with a population of around 900 in 2011. It is located roughly midway between Romsey and Winchester on the A3090. Besides the village the parish includes the hamlets of Standon and Pitt and the outlying settlement at Farley Chamberlayne.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hursley

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.

  1. 01
    Hursley House

    Hursley House is an 18th-century Queen Anne style mansion in Hursley, near Winchester in the English county of Hampshire. The building is Grade II* listed.

    700 m · country house near Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ratlake Meadows

    Ratlake Meadows is a 4.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Chandler's Ford in Hampshire. These unimproved meadows on London Clay are recorded back to the sixteenth century and are probably much older.

    2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Merdon Castle

    Merdon Castle is the site of a scheduled monument located near the parish of Hursley, in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

    1.6 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Hursley, Hampshire, England, UK · 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 Hursley

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 82 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 85 km · Bristol (BRS), 101 km
  • London → Hursley
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £11–14
  • Bristol → Hursley
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–18
  • Luton, Luton → Hursley
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hursley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Hampshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    38 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    230 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    501 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    564 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    600 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hursley

Hursley is 56 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Oliver's Batteryvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, UK3.7 km
  • Ampfieldvillage in Hampshire, England, UK2.5 km
  • Comptonvillage in Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Knightwoodvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Pitthamlet in Hampshire, England, UK3.8 km