Rownhams
Rownhams is a village in the civil parish of Nursling and Rownhams, in the Test Valley district, in Hampshire, England, situated just outside the boundaries of the City of Southampton, to the north-west.
Rownhams is a village in the civil parish of Nursling and Rownhams, in the Test Valley district, in Hampshire, England, situated just outside the boundaries of the City of Southampton, to the north-west. Rownhams services is a nearby service station on the M27 motorway that runs to the north of the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Rownhams
8 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.
- 01Southampton Common
Southampton Common is a large open space to the north of the city centre of Southampton, England. It is bounded by the districts of Shirley, Bassett, Highfield and Portswood.
3.8 km · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02St Michael and All Angels Church, Bassett
St. Michael and All Angels Church, in Bassett, Southampton, is an Anglican parish church which dates from the late 19th century.
3.4 km · church in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK · 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.
2.2 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.
3.1 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'.
2.9 km · church in Southampton, UK · Wikipedia - 06Boldrewood Campus
Boldrewood Innovation Campus is one of the University of Southampton’s campuses, located in Bassett, Southampton. The campus is home to the University's engineering and maritime engineering courses and business school.
3.6 km · campus of the University of Southampton in Bassett, Southampton, UK · Wikipedia - 07Grove 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.
1.8 km · building in Nursling and Rownhams, Test Valley, Hampshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Lower 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.
3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rownhams
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 90 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 91 km · Bristol (BRS), 100 km
- Stations
- Totton railway station, 3.9 km · Redbridge railway station, 3.3 km
- London → Rownhams112 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £12–16
- Bristol → Rownhams97 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → Rownhams126 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 Rownhams
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 Rownhams. 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.
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Next door to Rownhams
- Totton and Elingcivil parish in New Forest, Hampshire, United Kingdom4 km
- North Baddesleyvillage in Hampshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Chilworthvillage and civil parish in Test Valley, Hampshire, England3.4 km
- Nurslingvillage in Hampshire, England, UK1.3 km
- Millbrooksuburb of Southampton, Hampshire, England3.5 km
- Shirleysuburb in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK3.2 km