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

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.
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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.
- 01Hursley 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 - 02Ratlake 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 - 03Merdon 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
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Getting to Hursley
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 82 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 85 km · Bristol (BRS), 101 km
- London → Hursley103 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £11–14
- Bristol → Hursley97 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–18
- Luton, Luton → Hursley116 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.
- 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 Hursley
Hursley is 56 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Otterbournevillage and civil parish in Hampshire, UK3.8 km
- 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