Medstead
Medstead is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.
Medstead is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Alton, which lies 4.3 miles (6.9 km) northeast of the village. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 2,036 people. The parish covers an area of 1,536 acres (622 ha) and has an average elevation of approximately 600 feet (180 m) above sea level. One of the county's high points at 716 feet (218 m), King's Hill, runs through Medstead and Bentworth.
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Worth seeing in and around Medstead
3 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.
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Getting to Medstead
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 61 km · London Luton (LTN), 96 km
- Stations
- Medstead and Four Marks railway station, 2.2 km
- London → Medstead78 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Medstead95 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
- Bristol → Medstead113 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–18
- 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 Medstead
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 Medstead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPortsmouth is a major international ferry port, and receives ferries from Jersey and Guernsey (in the Channel Islands), Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre and St.
- Get inOther nearby south coast ports with ferry service from the continent are Dover, Newhaven, and Poole.
- Get aroundPortsmouth is linked to Gosport by a frequent passenger ferry.
- Get aroundThere are also hovercraft, passenger and car ferry crossings to various towns on the Isle of Wight from Lymington, Southampton, and Portsmouth.
- Go nextThe Isle of Wight is an easy ferry trip from Portsmouth, Southampton or Lymington.
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Next door to Medstead
Medstead is 37 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bentworthvillage and civil parish in East Hampshire, England3.2 km
- Four Marksvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom2.5 km
- Wieldcivil parish in Hampshire, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Lower Wieldvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom3.6 km
- Upper Wieldvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom3 km
- Theddenhamlet in Hampshire, England, UK3.5 km