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Village in Hampshire, England · United Kingdom

# Pilley, Hampshire

Pilley is a small village in the civil parish of Boldre, in the New Forest national park in Hampshire, England.

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Pilley, Hampshire · Roman Eisele

The place

Pilley is a small village in the civil parish of Boldre, in the New Forest national park in Hampshire, England. Pilley is located 2 miles north of the port of Lymington.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilley%2C_Hampshire), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Pilley, Hampshire

4 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. Walhampton Walhampton is a hamlet in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Boldre. 2.4 km · hamlet in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhampton)
2. Church of St. Thomas the Apostle The Church of St Thomas the Apostle in Lymington in Hampshire, is the main Anglican Church of England parish church for the town. There has been a church on the site for 800 years and the original foundations are believed to date to the reign of Henry III but was largely rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries. 2.9 km · grade II listed church in Lymington, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Thomas_the_Apostle,_Lymington)
3. Pylewell House Pylewell Park is a country house and park near Lymington in Hampshire. The house is listed at grade II\*. 3.3 km · Grade II\* listed house and garden in Boldre, New Forest, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylewell_Park)
4. St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery St Barbe Museum + Art Gallery is a local museum and art gallery in Lymington, Hampshire, England. Enclosed in the building is a small cafe called 'The Old School Cafe', a gift shop, multi-use room named 'The Mac Carthy Room', a museum showcasing artefacts and historical information about the Lymington and the New Forest, and a medium-sized gallery, used for art and historical exhibitions. 2.7 km · museum in Lymington, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Barbe_Museum_%26_Art_Gallery)

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 Pilley, Hampshire

**Airports:** London Gatwick (LGW), 103 km · Bristol (BRS), 106 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 107 km\
**Stations:** Lymington Town railway station, 2.4 km · Lymington Pier railway station, 2.7 km · Ampress railway station, 1.9 km\

- London → Pilley, Hampshire 127 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-pilley-hampshire) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Pilley%2C+Hampshire)
- Bristol → Pilley, Hampshire 105 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £12–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-pilley-hampshire) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Pilley%2C+Hampshire)
- Cardiff → Pilley, Hampshire 138 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-pilley-hampshire) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Pilley%2C+Hampshire)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Pilley%2C%20Hampshire)

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 Pilley, Hampshire

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 Pilley, Hampshire. 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 19 km
2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 224 km
3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 524 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 585 km
5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 619 km

If you know how people move in Pilley, Hampshire – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpilley&title=Pilley%2C+Hampshire&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpilley), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Pilley, Hampshire

- [Lymington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lymington) town in Hampshire, England 3.8 km
- [Boldre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boldre) village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, UK 1.5 km
- [Lymington and Pennington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lymington-and-pennington) civil parish in New Forest, Hampshire, England 3 km
- [Battramsley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/battramsley) hamlet in Hampshire, England, UK 2.7 km
- [East End](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/east-end) hamlet in Hampshire, England, UK 3.6 km
- [Bull Hill](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bull-hill) village in Hampshire, England, UK 900 m

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