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New Milton

New Milton is a market town and civil parish in the New Forest district, in southwest Hampshire, England.

New Milton
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The place

New Milton is a market town and civil parish in the New Forest district, in southwest Hampshire, England. To the north is in the New Forest and to the south the coast at Barton on Sea. The town is equidistant between Lymington and Christchurch, 6 miles (9.7 km) away.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around New Milton

6 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
    Highcliffe Castle

    Highcliffe Castle, situated on the cliffs at Highcliffe, Dorset, was built between 1831 and 1835 by Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay in a Romantic and Picturesque, Gothic Revival style near the site of High Cliff House, a Georgian Mansion designed for the 3rd Earl of Bute with the gardens laid out by Capability Brown. The design, by William Donthorne, a founder member of RIBA, incorporated large quantities of carved Medieval stonework salvaged from the ruined Benedictine Abbey of St Peter at Jumieges and the Grand' Maison des Andelys, both situated in Normandy, France.

    5.1 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Highcliffe and Walkford, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hinton Admiral

    Hinton Admiral is the estate and ancestral home of the Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick family and located in the settlement of Hinton, near Bransgore in Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I Listed building.

    4.6 km · Grade I listed English country house in New Forest District, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    New Milton Town Hall

    New Milton Town Hall is a municipal building in Ashley Road in New Milton, a town in Hampshire, in England. The building accommodates the offices and meeting place of New Milton Town Council.

    800 m · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum

    The Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum is an independent museum in New Milton, Hampshire, England. It was set up in 1964, after the former championship winning observed trials rider Sammy Miller set up a parts business in New Milton.

    1.8 km · motorcycle museum in New Milton, Hampshire · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Burton Common

    Burton Common is a 32.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Bransgore in Hampshire. This dry heath has over-mature heather with a rich bryophyte and lichen flora.

    5.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Highcliffe to Milford Cliffs

    Highcliffe to Milford Cliffs is a 110.1-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the south coast of England from Christchurch in Dorset to Milford on Sea in Hampshire. It includes several Geological Conservation Review sites.

    3.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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.

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Getting to New Milton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 102 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 111 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 115 km
Stations
New Milton railway station, 700 m · Sway railway station, 4 km · Hinton Admiral railway station, 4.6 km · Holmsley railway station, 5.3 km
  • London → New Milton
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £15–20
  • Bristol → New Milton
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–16
  • Cardiff → New Milton
    133 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for New Milton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundNonetheless, 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, 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

    26 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    217 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    533 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    584 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    612 km

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

Around it

Next door to New Milton

  • Hordlevillage in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom2 km
  • Milford on Seavillage in Hampshire, England5.7 km
  • Swayvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, United Kingdom4.3 km
  • Barton on Seavillage in Hampshire, England1.9 km
  • Evertonvillage in Hampshire, England, UK4.3 km
  • Highcliffetown in Christchurch, Dorset, England3.8 km