Long Common
Long Common is a hamlet in the civil parish of Botley in the Eastleigh district of Hampshire, England.
Long Common is a hamlet in the civil parish of Botley in the Eastleigh district of Hampshire, England. It lies approximately 5.6 miles (9 km) north-east from Southampton.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Long Common
5 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.
- 01Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl, known for sponsorship reasons as Utilita Bowl, is a cricket ground and hotel complex in West End, Hampshire. It is the home of Hampshire County Cricket Club, who have played there since 2001.
2.9 km · cricket ground and residential hotel complex · Wikipedia - 02Church of St James
St James' Church in West End, Hampshire is an Anglican parish church in the Borough of Eastleigh. The church building is grade II listed.
4 km · church building in West End, Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of All Saints
All Saints is an Anglican church in the centre of the village of Botley, in Hampshire, England. Built in the 1830s to replace a church, St Bartholomew's, south of the village, it was expanded in 1859 and the 1890s.
2.2 km · church building in Botley, Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04River Hamble Country Park
River Hamble Country Park is a 144.1-hectare country park which runs along the west bank of the River Hamble between the villages of Botley and Bursledon in Hampshire. It is owned by Hampshire County Council and managed by Hampshire Countryside Service.
3.3 km · Park in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia - 05Moorgreen Meadows
Moorgreen Meadows is a 14.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Southampton in Hampshire. These meadows are important for their populations of the genus marsh orchid, especially the northern marsh orchid, which is not found at any other location in southern England.
2.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Long Common
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 80 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 83 km · Bristol (BRS), 112 km
- Stations
- Hedge End railway station, 800 m · Botley railway station, 2.5 km
- London → Long Common46 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £5–7
- Bristol → Long Common147 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £16–21
- Luton, Luton → Long Common48 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £6–8
- 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 Long Common
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 Long Common. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe CityLink bus runs from the station via the Westquay shopping centre to Town Quay, where the catamaran to the Isle of Wight and the ferry to Hythe depart.
- Get inThere are no international ferry services: these call in Portsmouth about to the east.
- Get inHowever, regular vehicle and passenger ferries operate to Southampton from Cowes on the nearby Isle of Wight and the village of Hythe in the New Forest.
From Wikivoyage: Southampton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Long Common
- Hedge Endtown and civil parish in Hampshire, United Kingdom2.6 km
- Eastleighlocal government district with borough status in Hampshire, England2.2 km
- Curdridgevillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England, UK2.7 km
- West Endvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England, UK3.7 km
- Botleyvillage in Hampshire, England, UK2.2 km
- Durleyvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, United Kingdom2.3 km