Kinson
Kinson is a former village which has been absorbed by the town of Bournemouth, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England.
Kinson is a former village which has been absorbed by the town of Bournemouth, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. The area became part of Bournemouth district on 1 April 1931. There were two electoral wards containing the name Kinson. Their joint population at the 2011 census was 19,824.
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Worth seeing in and around Kinson
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.
- 01Bournemouth University
Bournemouth University is a public university in Bournemouth, England, with its main campus situated in neighbouring Poole. The university was founded in 1992; however, the origins of its predecessor date back to the early 1900s.
2.9 km · university in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, UK · Wikipedia - 02Arts University Bournemouth
Arts University Bournemouth is a public university in Poole, England, specialising in art, architecture, film, performance, and design. Established in 1880, the university has been ranked Silver and Gold by the Teaching Excellence Framework in 2017, and was rated Outstanding by Ofsted, having retained this highest ranking since 2018.
3.1 km · further and higher education university college based in Poole, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Andrew
St. Andrew's Church is a Grade II* listed historic parish church in Kinson, Bournemouth, Dorset.
400 m · church in Kinson, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Kinson Cemetery
Kinson Cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Kinson, a suburb of Bournemouth, England. The cemetery is owned by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council.
800 m · historic cemetery in Dorset, England · Wikipedia - 05St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in the town of Ferndown, Dorset.
3.5 km · church in Ferndown, Dorset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Longham United Reform Church
Longham United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed United Reformed church near Longham near Ferndown in Dorset, England.
2 km · church building in Ferndown Town, East Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07All Saints Church, Hampreston
All Saints Church is the Church of England parish church of Hampreston, Dorset, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.6 km · church in Hampreston, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Old St John's Buildings
Old St John's Buildings, formerly known as St John's Mission Church, is a historic building in the Moordown area of Bournemouth, England.
2.5 km · building in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church of St John
St John the Baptist's Church is a historic church in the Moordown area of Bournemouth, England.
2.8 km · church building in Moordown, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Church of St Francis of Assisi, West Entrance Steps, Hall and Attached Vicarage
St Francis of Assisi's Church is a Grade II listed church in the Charminster area of Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
3.8 km · clergy house in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kinson
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 89 km · Cardiff (CWL), 122 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 127 km
- Bristol → Kinson90 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £10–14
- London → Kinson149 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £15–20
- Cardiff → Kinson119 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–22
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kinson
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 Kinson. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextOne option is to take the open top bus via the Sandbanks ferry in the summer for approx £5 from central Bournemouth and change at Swanage.
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