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Longfleet

Longfleet is a small neighbourhood of Poole, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district of Dorset, England.

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The place

Longfleet is a small neighbourhood of Poole, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district of Dorset, England. It is centred on Longfleet Road, directly north of the town centre, south-east of Oakdale, and west of Parkstone. The majority land use is residential, with most housing being Victorian and Edwardian era terraces. It is also home to Poole Hospital.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Longfleet

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
    Compton Acres

    Compton Acres is a large privately owned garden in Poole, Dorset, England. It was founded in 1920 by Thomas William Simpson, an entrepreneur who had become wealthy through the manufacture of margarine.

    3.6 km · garden in Poole, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Dunstan of Canterbury Orthodox Church

    St Dunstan of Canterbury Orthodox Church is an Antiochian Orthodox church in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. It is the parish church for Bournemouth and Poole within the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of The British Isles and Ireland.

    2.2 km · Grade II* listed church in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Twin Sails Bridge

    The Twin Sails Bridge is a double leaved bascule bridge in Poole, Dorset, England. The bridge provides a second road link from Poole Town Centre to Hamworthy.

    1.9 km · bridge in Poole, Dorset · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Longfleet

    St Mary's, Longfleet is a Church of England parish church in Longfleet, a district of Poole, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, on the south coast of England. It is part of the New Wine network and describes itself as an evangelical charismatic church.

    200 m · church in Poole, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Lighthouse

    Lighthouse is an arts centre in Poole, Dorset, England. According to Arts Council England it is the largest arts centre in the United Kingdom outside London.

    200 m · arts centre (concert hall, theatre and cinema) in Poole, Dorset, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Splashdown Waterpark

    Splashdown is a water park located at the Tower Park complex near to Poole, Dorset, England. The park opened in 1990 and was one of the founding attractions at Tower Park.

    2.8 km · water park in Poole, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Parish Church of St Aldhelm

    St Aldhelm's Church is a Grade II* listed Gothic Revival Anglican church in the Branksome area of Poole, Dorset, England. It is dedicated to Saint Aldhelm, the abbot of Malmesbury Abbey who became first Bishop of Sherborne in the early 8th century.

    3.6 km · church in Poole, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Upton House

    Upton House is a country house in the grounds of Upton Country Park on the northwestern shoreline of Holes Bay in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England. It is owned by BCP Council.

    3.2 km · house in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St George's Church

    St George's Church is a Church of England church in Oakdale, a suburb of Poole, Dorset, England. It was built in 1959–60 and has been Grade II Listed since 1998.

    1.6 km · church in Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Scaplen's Court

    Scaplen's Court is a fifteenth century Grade I listed house in Poole, Dorset, England, adjacent to the Poole Museum. The house is now used as a museum focusing on life in Poole between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, and includes a Victorian schoolroom and kitchen.

    1.8 km · 15th century Grade I listed house in Poole, Dorset, England, UK, used as a museum · 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 Longfleet

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 90 km · Cardiff (CWL), 122 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 134 km
Stations
Brownsea Island, 3.6 km · Poole Harbour, 3.4 km · Branksome railway station, 3.6 km · Port of Poole, 2.3 km · Hamworthy railway station, 3.5 km
  • Bristol → Longfleet
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £10–14
  • London → Longfleet
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £16–21
  • Cardiff → Longfleet
    119 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Longfleet

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDaily ferry services from Poole Harbour run to Cherbourg in France as well as Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

From Wikivoyage: Poole, 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

    47 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    196 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    554 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    579 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    595 km

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

Around it

Next door to Longfleet

  • Pooletown, seaport and civil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England1.2 km
  • Hamworthyinner suburb of Poole in Dorset, England2.9 km
  • Parkstonesuburb of Poole, Dorset, England2.1 km
  • Branksomesuburb of Poole in Dorset, England3.9 km
  • Canford Heathsuburb of Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Creekmoorsuburb in Poole, Dorset, England, UK3.4 km