--- title: "Milford on Sea – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Milford on Sea, United Kingdom: Milford on Sea, often hyphenated, is a large coastal village and civil parish in the New Forest district, on the Hampshire…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milford-on-sea" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milford-on-sea.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Village_green%2C_Milford_on_Sea%2C_Hampshire%2C_England.jpg/3840px-Village_green%2C_Milford_on_Sea%2C_Hampshire%2C_England.jpg" --- Village and parish in Hampshire, England · United Kingdom # Milford on Sea Milford on Sea, often hyphenated, is a large coastal village and civil parish in the New Forest district, on the Hampshire coast, England. ![Milford on Sea](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Village_green%2C_Milford_on_Sea%2C_Hampshire%2C_England.jpg/3840px-Village_green%2C_Milford_on_Sea%2C_Hampshire%2C_England.jpg) Milford on Sea · Wikimedia Commons The place Milford on Sea, often hyphenated, is a large coastal village and civil parish in the New Forest district, on the Hampshire coast, England. The parish had a population of 4,660 at the 2011 census and is centred about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Lymington. The village has three small concrete piers on the beach. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford_on_Sea), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Milford on Sea 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. 1. Hurst Castle Hurst Castle is an artillery fort established by Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit in Hampshire, England, between 1541 and 1544. It formed part of the king's Device Forts coastal protection programme against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the western entrance to the Solent waterway. 3.4 km · Device Fort in Hampshire, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurst_Castle) 2. Hurst Point Lighthouse Hurst Point Lighthouse is located at Hurst Point in the English county of Hampshire, and guides vessels through the western approaches to the Solent. 3.4 km · lighthouse on the Solent, in Hampshire, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurst_Point_Lighthouse) 3. Sturt Pond Sturt Pond is a 10.9-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Milford on Sea in Hampshire. It is owned and managed by Milford On Sea Parish Council. 700 m · Large brackish pond in Milford on Sea crossed by footbridge much bordered by paths and a small caravan park · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturt_Pond) 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 Milford on Sea **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 107 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 109 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km\ - London → Milford on Sea 134 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-milford-on-sea) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Milford+on+Sea) - Bristol → Milford on Sea 107 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–16 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-milford-on-sea) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Milford+on+Sea) - Cardiff → Milford on Sea 139 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-milford-on-sea) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Milford+on+Sea) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Milford%20on%20Sea) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Milford on Sea 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 Milford on Sea. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around Nonetheless, that doesn't stop you from boarding the train at Lymington Town to get down to the pier station for the ferry service, or using the bus services above to get to local areas. - Go next — Wightlink offers a 40-minute ferry to Yarmouth. From [Wikivoyage: Lymington](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Lymington), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 21 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 222 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 531 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 589 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 618 km If you know how people move in Milford on Sea – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmilford-on-sea&title=Milford+on+Sea&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmilford-on-sea), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Milford on Sea - [Lymington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lymington) town in Hampshire, England 3.8 km - [Pennington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pennington) village in Hampshire, England, UK 3.5 km - [Everton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/everton) village in Hampshire, England, UK 2.2 km - [Keyhaven](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/keyhaven) village in Hampshire, United Kingdom 1.4 km - [Downton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/downton) village in Hampshire, England, UK 2.7 km - [Hurst Spit](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hurst-spit) shingle bank near the village of Keyhaven 3.5 km [The place page for Milford on Sea](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/milford-on-sea) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milford-on-sea, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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