--- title: "Keyhaven – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Keyhaven, United Kingdom: Keyhaven is a hamlet on the south coast of England in the county of Hampshire. Nearby: Hurst Castle, Hurst Point Lighthouse…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/keyhaven" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/keyhaven.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Harbour_at_Keyhaven%2C_Hampshire%2C_England.jpg/3840px-Harbour_at_Keyhaven%2C_Hampshire%2C_England.jpg" --- Hamlet in Hampshire, England · United Kingdom # Keyhaven Keyhaven is a hamlet on the south coast of England in the county of Hampshire. ![Keyhaven](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Harbour_at_Keyhaven%2C_Hampshire%2C_England.jpg/3840px-Harbour_at_Keyhaven%2C_Hampshire%2C_England.jpg) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhaven), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurst_Castle) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurst_Point_Lighthouse) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Albert) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Victoria,_Isle_of_Wight) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Solent) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturt_Pond) 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-keyhaven) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Keyhaven) - Bristol → Keyhaven 109 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-keyhaven) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Keyhaven) - Cardiff → Keyhaven 141 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-keyhaven) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Keyhaven) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Keyhaven) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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 around Nonetheless, 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 19 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 223 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 590 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ckeyhaven&title=Keyhaven&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fkeyhaven), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Keyhaven - [Lymington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lymington) town in Hampshire, England 3.3 km - [Milford on Sea](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milford-on-sea) village in Hampshire, England 1.4 km - [Pennington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pennington) village in Hampshire, England, UK 3.1 km - [Everton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/everton) village in Hampshire, England, UK 3 km - [Hurst Spit](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hurst-spit) shingle bank near the village of Keyhaven 2.2 km [The place page for Keyhaven](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/keyhaven) [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/keyhaven, 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. 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