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

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.
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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.
- 01Compton 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 - 02St 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 - 03Twin 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 - 04St 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 - 05The 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 - 06Splashdown 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 - 07Parish 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 - 08Upton 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 - 09St 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 - 10Scaplen'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
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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 → Longfleet92 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £10–14
- London → Longfleet155 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £16–21
- Cardiff → Longfleet119 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £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 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.
- Get inDaily ferry services from Poole Harbour run to Cherbourg in France as well as Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
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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