Sopley
Sopley is a village and civil parish in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England.
Sopley is a village and civil parish in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. The village lies on the old main road from Christchurch to Ringwood, on the east bank of the River Avon. The parish extends east as far as Thorny Hill and includes the hamlets of Shirley, Avon and Ripley. The area is mainly rural with fewer than 300 dwellings. The population of the parish at the 2021 census was 1,028.
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Worth seeing in and around Sopley
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.
- 01Bournemouth Combined Court Centre
The Bournemouth Combined Court Centre, also known as Bournemouth Courts of Justice, is a Crown Court venue, which deals with criminal cases, as well as a County Court venue, which deals with civil cases, in Deansleigh Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
3.7 km · Judicial Building in Dorset · Wikipedia - 02Parish Church of St Luke
St. Luke's Church is a Church of England parish church in Burton, Dorset, England.
2.2 km · church building in Burton, Christchurch, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Burton 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.
3.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sopley
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 94 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 119 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 121 km
- Stations
- Christchurch railway station, 3.7 km · Hurn railway station, 2.3 km
- London → Sopley140 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £15–19
- Bristol → Sopley94 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £11–14
- Cardiff → Sopley125 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · £17–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sopley
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 Sopley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextGood location for day trips to the New Forest, Lymington and Beaulieu.
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Next door to Sopley
- Bransgorevillage and civil parish in Hampshire, UK3.4 km
- Hurnvillage in Dorset, England, UK3 km
- Burtonvillage in Burton and Winkton, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England2.3 km
- Holdenhurstvillage in Dorset, England3.2 km
- Blackwatervillage in Dorset, England, UK2.2 km
- Burton and Winktoncivil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England2.1 km