--- title: "Hurst Spit – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Hurst Spit, United Kingdom: 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…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hurst-spit" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hurst-spit.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Hurst_Spit%2C_Hampshire%2C_England_%289%29.jpg/3840px-Hurst_Spit%2C_Hampshire%2C_England_%289%29.jpg" --- Shingle bank near Keyhaven, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Hurst_Spit%2C_Hampshire%2C_England_%289%29.jpg/3840px-Hurst_Spit%2C_Hampshire%2C_England_%289%29.jpg) Hurst Spit · Wikimedia Commons The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurst_Spit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Hurst Spit **Airports:** London Gatwick (LGW), 108 km · Bristol (BRS), 111 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km\ - London → Hurst Spit Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-hurst-spit) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Hurst+Spit) - Bristol → Hurst Spit Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-hurst-spit) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Hurst+Spit) - Cardiff → Hurst Spit Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-hurst-spit) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Hurst+Spit) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Hurst%20Spit) Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in From a mainland location, the best approach is to use the Wightlink car and passenger ferry which runs every half-hour direct to Yarmouth. - Get in This ferry operates from Lymington (on the mainland) and has good rail and road connections (as described in the Lymington article). - Get in Taking 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)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Yarmouth_(England%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 18 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 225 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 530 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 592 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 621 km If you know how people move in Hurst Spit – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Churst-spit&title=Hurst+Spit&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fhurst-spit), and the note gets an entry. [The place page for Hurst Spit](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/hurst-spit) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hurst-spit, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt