Nursling
Nursling is a village in the civil parish of Nursling and Rownhams, in the Test Valley district, in Hampshire, England, about 6 kilometres north-west of the city of Southampton.

Nursling is a village in the civil parish of Nursling and Rownhams, in the Test Valley district, in Hampshire, England, about 6 kilometres north-west of the city of Southampton. Formerly called Nhutscelle, then Nutsall, Nutshalling or Nutshullyng until the mid-19th century, it has now been absorbed into the suburbs of Southampton, although it is not part of the district of Southampton.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Nursling
5 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.
- 01Grove Place House Northcliffe School
Grove Place is a Grade I listed building in Nursling, Hampshire. The building was originally a country house and was converted into a lunatic asylum in the 19th century, subsequently used as a farmhouse, and then converted back into a private house before becoming a school in the 1990s, then redeveloped as retirement accommodation in the early 21st century.
700 m · building in Nursling and Rownhams, Test Valley, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Lower Test Valley
Lower Test Valley is a 142-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Totton in Hampshire. It is part of Solent and Southampton Water Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and of Solent Maritime Special Area of Conservation.
2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 03Hollybrook Cemetery
Hollybrook Cemetery is a cemetery in Bassett, Southampton, England, containing around 53,000 graves as of August 2012 and still open to new burials as of December 2025. It is one of the main cemeteries in Southampton.
3.1 km · cemetery in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Shirley Baptist Church
Shirley Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Southampton. The main church building is situated along Church Street in the district of Shirley.
3.7 km · church in Southampton, UK · Wikipedia - 05Shirley Parish Church
St James' by the Park is an Anglican parish church which meets in Shirley, Southampton. Following the closure of St John's Church, the parish has one church building, the grade II listed St James'.
3.7 km · church in Southampton, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nursling
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 92 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 93 km · Bristol (BRS), 99 km
- Stations
- Totton railway station, 3.1 km · Redbridge railway station, 2.8 km
- London → Nursling113 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £12–16
- Bristol → Nursling97 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → Nursling127 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £14–19
- 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 Nursling
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 Nursling. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe CityLink bus runs from the station via the Westquay shopping centre to Town Quay, where the catamaran to the Isle of Wight and the ferry to Hythe depart.
- Get inThere are no international ferry services: these call in Portsmouth about to the east.
- Get inHowever, regular vehicle and passenger ferries operate to Southampton from Cowes on the nearby Isle of Wight and the village of Hythe in the New Forest.
From Wikivoyage: Southampton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Nursling – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Nursling
- Totton and Elingcivil parish in New Forest, Hampshire, United Kingdom3 km
- Tottontown in Hampshire, England3.2 km
- Millbrooksuburb of Southampton, Hampshire, England3.6 km
- Elingsettlement in Totton and Eling, New Forest, Hampshire, England3.7 km
- Ashfieldvillage in Hampshire, England, UK1.8 km
- Rownhamsvillage in Hampshire, England, UK1.3 km