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Keyhaven

Keyhaven is a hamlet on the south coast of England in the county of Hampshire.

Keyhaven
Keyhaven · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Keyhaven is a hamlet on the south coast of England in the county of Hampshire. It is a fishing village, but the trade has been in decline for a period of years and its main draw now is tourism, especially sailing.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Keyhaven

6 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
    Hurst 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.

    2.2 km · Device Fort in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hurst 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.

    2.1 km · lighthouse on the Solent, in Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fort 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.

    3.7 km · tower fort on the Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fort 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.

    3.8 km · fort in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sturt Pond

    Sturt Pond is a 10.9-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Milford on Sea in Hampshire. It is owned and managed by Milford On Sea Parish Council.

    1 km · Large brackish pond in Milford on Sea crossed by footbridge much bordered by paths and a small caravan park · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    North Solent

    North Solent is a 1,186.7-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest along the north bank of the Solent between East End and Calshot in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Part of it is in North Solent National Nature Reserve and two areas are Geological Conservation Review sites.

    3 km · geological site in Hampshire · 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 Keyhaven

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 108 km · Bristol (BRS), 109 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km
  • London → Keyhaven
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £15–20
  • Bristol → Keyhaven
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–16
  • Cardiff → Keyhaven
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Keyhaven

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundNonetheless, that doesn't stop you from boarding the train at Lymington Town to get down to the pier station for the ferry service, or using the bus services above to get to local areas.
  • Go next— Wightlink offers a 40-minute ferry to Yarmouth.

From Wikivoyage: Lymington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    19 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    223 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    530 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    590 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    619 km

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

Around it

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