Hurst Spit
Hurst Spit is a one-mile-long (1.6 km) shingle bank near the village of Keyhaven, at the western end of the Solent, on the south coast of England.
Hurst Spit is a one-mile-long (1.6 km) shingle bank near the village of Keyhaven, at the western end of the Solent, on the south coast of England. The spit shelters an area of saltmarsh and mudflats known as Keyhaven and Pennington marshes. At the end of the spit is Hurst Castle, an artillery fortress originally built on the orders of King Henry VIII, and much enlarged in the 19th century. Hurst Point Lighthouse was built on the end of Hurst Spit in the 1860s.
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Worth seeing in and around Hurst Spit
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.
- 01Yarmouth Castle
Yarmouth Castle is an artillery fort built by Henry VIII in 1547 to protect Yarmouth Harbour on the Isle of Wight from the threat of French attack. Just under 100 feet across, the square castle was initially equipped with 15 artillery guns and a garrison of 20 men.
3.6 km · English artillery fort · Wikipedia - 02Hurst Castle
Hurst Castle is an artillery fort established by Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit in Hampshire, England, between 1541 and 1544. It formed part of the king's Device Forts coastal protection programme against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the western entrance to the Solent waterway.
0 m · Device Fort in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Hurst Point Lighthouse
Hurst Point Lighthouse is located at Hurst Point in the English county of Hampshire, and guides vessels through the western approaches to the Solent.
200 m · lighthouse on the Solent, in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04All Saints' Church, Freshwater
All Saints' Church, Freshwater is a parish church in the Church of England located in Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
3.8 km · church on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Fort Albert
Fort Albert is a tower fort nestling under the cliffs south-west of Fort Victoria on the Isle of Wight, England. It was also known as Cliff End Fort, named after the Northern extremity of Colwell Bay.
1.5 km · tower fort on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Fort Victoria
Fort Victoria is a former military fort on the Isle of Wight, England, built to guard the Solent. The earliest fort on the site was a coastal fort known as Sharpenode Bulwark built in 1545–1547 by Henry VIII, but these defences had fallen into disrepair by the 17th century.
2.1 km · fort in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07The Town Hall
Yarmouth Town Hall is a municipal building in The Square in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England. The structure, which is used as a community events venue, is a Grade II listed building.
3.6 km · town hall in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Golden Hill Fort
Golden Hill Fort was a defensible barracks at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, built as part of the Palmerston defences by the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom to provide manpower to man the defences at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. Built in hexagonal form, it accommodated 8 officers and 128 men, and had its own hospital.
2.8 km · 1863-1872 defensible barracks building at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St. James' Church, Yarmouth
St. James' Church, Yarmouth is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England located in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
3.7 km · church in Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Yarmouth Pier
Yarmouth Pier is a Victorian pleasure pier located in the town of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England. Constructed in 1876, it is the longest surviving wooden pier in England that remains open to the public.
3.6 km · pier in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hurst Spit
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 108 km · Bristol (BRS), 111 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km
- Stations
- Yarmouth railway station, 4 km · Freshwater (Isle of Wight) railway station, 3.6 km
- London → Hurst SpitTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Bristol → Hurst SpitTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Cardiff → Hurst SpitTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hurst Spit
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 Hurst Spit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom a mainland location, the best approach is to use the Wightlink car and passenger ferry which runs every half-hour direct to Yarmouth.
- Get inThis ferry operates from Lymington (on the mainland) and has good rail and road connections (as described in the Lymington article).
- Get inTaking a car on the ferry can be quite expensive; for short visits it may be better to park in the car park at Lymington Pier and board the ferry as a foot passenger.
From Wikivoyage: Yarmouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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Next door to Hurst Spit
- Yarmouthtown and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England4 km
- Freshwatervillage and parish on the Isle of Wight, England3.2 km
- Milford on Seavillage in Hampshire, England3.5 km
- Totlandvillage, civil parish and electoral ward at the western tip of the Isle of Wight, in England, UK2.6 km
- Keyhavenvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom2.3 km
- Norton Greenvillage on the Isle of Wight, England, UK2.7 km