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Springbourne

Springbourne is a suburb of Bournemouth in Dorset, England.

Springbourne
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The place

Springbourne is a suburb of Bournemouth in Dorset, England. It occupies the north-east part of the main built-up area, north of Boscombe. Its formal boundaries are Northcote Road to the west, the Wessex Way (A338) to the north, Ashley Road to the east, and the railway line to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Springbourne

10 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
    Dean Court

    Dean Court, currently known as Vitality Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England, and is the home ground of AFC Bournemouth. The stadium has a capacity of 12,357.

    1 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bournemouth University

    Bournemouth University is a public university in Bournemouth, England, with its main campus situated in neighbouring Poole. The university was founded in 1992; however, the origins of its predecessor date back to the early 1900s.

    3.6 km · university in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

    The Russell-Cotes Museum is an art gallery and museum in Bournemouth, England. A Grade II* listed building originally known as East Cliff Hall, it is located on the top of the East Cliff, next to the Royal Bath Hotel.

    2 km · art museum in Bournemouth, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dean Park Cricket Ground

    Dean Park is a cricket ground in Bournemouth, England. It was formerly used by Hampshire and Dorset County Cricket Clubs.

    1.5 km · cricket ground in Bournemouth, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Arts University Bournemouth

    Arts University Bournemouth is a public university in Poole, England, specialising in art, architecture, film, performance, and design. Established in 1880, the university has been ranked Silver and Gold by the Teaching Excellence Framework in 2017, and was rated Outstanding by Ofsted, having retained this highest ranking since 2018.

    3.6 km · further and higher education university college based in Poole, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kings Park, Boscombe

    Kings Park is one of the largest parks that is in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset. It is home to Dean Court, where AFC Bournemouth play.

    1.2 km · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Queen's Park, Bournemouth

    Queen's Park is one of the largest parks that is in Bournemouth, Dorset. It is home to Queen's Park Golf course.

    1.2 km · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Peter's Church, Bournemouth

    St Peter's Church is a Church of England parish church located in the centre of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building classed as a major parish church, and was completed in 1879 to a design by George Edmund Street as the founding mother church of Bournemouth.

    2.1 km · church in Bournemouth, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Pavilion Theatre

    The Pavilion Theatre and Ballroom is a concert hall in Bournemouth. It opened in 1929 and has been redesigned several times since.

    2.3 km · theatre in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation

    The Bournemouth Community Hebrew Congregation is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Wootton Gardens, Lansdowne, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation was formed in 1905 and worships in the Ashkenazi rite.

    1.8 km · synagogue in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Springbourne

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 94 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 126 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 127 km
Stations
Bournemouth railway station, 1.1 km · Pokesdown railway station, 1.8 km · Boscombe railway station, 700 m · Bournemouth West railway station, 3.2 km · Meyrick Park Halt railway station, 2.1 km
  • London → Springbourne
    13 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £1.5–2
  • Bristol → Springbourne
    96 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £11–15
  • Cardiff → Springbourne
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Springbourne

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextOne option is to take the open top bus via the Sandbanks ferry in the summer for approx £5 from central Bournemouth and change at Swanage.

From Wikivoyage: Bournemouth, 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

    39 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    204 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    546 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    582 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    602 km

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

Around it

Next door to Springbourne

  • Bournemouthtown and civil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England2.4 km
  • Holdenhurstvillage in Dorset, England3.7 km
  • Boscombesuburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK900 m
  • Throop and Holdenhurstcivil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England3.3 km
  • Pokesdownsuburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England2.4 km
  • Throopvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.7 km