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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.

The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Bournemouth 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
  2. 02
    Arts 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
  3. 03
    Church 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
  4. 04
    Kinson 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
  5. 05
    St 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
  6. 06
    Longham 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
  7. 07
    All 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
  8. 08
    Old 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
  9. 09
    Church 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
  10. 10
    Church 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

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.

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Getting to Kinson

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 89 km · Cardiff (CWL), 122 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 127 km
  • Bristol → Kinson
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £10–14
  • London → Kinson
    149 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £15–20
  • Cardiff → Kinson
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–22
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Bournemouth, 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

    43 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    199 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    547 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    576 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    596 km

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