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Swarraton

Swarraton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Northington, in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England.

Swarraton
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The place

Swarraton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Northington, in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England. It lies three miles (5 km) from New Alresford covers an acreage of 755 acres (3.06 km2). Its nearest railway station is in New Alresford, on the Mid-Hants section of the London and South Western Railway. In 1931 the parish had a population of 90. On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished and merged with Northington.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Swarraton

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.

  1. 01
    Stratton Park

    Stratton Park, in East Stratton, Hampshire, was an English country house, built on the site of a grange of Hyde Abbey after the dissolution of the monasteries; it was purchased with the manor of Micheldever in 1546 by Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton. The last earl of Southampton made Stratton Park one of his chief seats, and his son-in-law, Sir William Russell, pulled down part of the hamlet and added it to his deer park in the 1660s.

    3.9 km · country house in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Old Arlesford House

    Old Alresford House is an 18th-century Georgian country house in Old Alresford, Hampshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.9 km · country house in Old Alresford, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Grange

    The Grange is a 19th-century country house-mansion and English landscape park near Northington in Hampshire, England. It is currently owned by the Baring family, Barons Ashburton.

    1.1 km · Grade I listed country house in Northington, Hampshire, England, 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.

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Getting to Swarraton

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 63 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 100 km
  • London → Swarraton
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £9–13
  • Luton, Luton → Swarraton
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £12–15
  • Bristol → Swarraton
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Swarraton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPortsmouth is a major international ferry port, and receives ferries from Jersey and Guernsey (in the Channel Islands), Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre and St.
  • Get inOther nearby south coast ports with ferry service from the continent are Dover, Newhaven, and Poole.
  • Get aroundPortsmouth is linked to Gosport by a frequent passenger ferry.
  • Get aroundThere are also hovercraft, passenger and car ferry crossings to various towns on the Isle of Wight from Lymington, Southampton, and Portsmouth.
  • Go nextThe Isle of Wight is an easy ferry trip from Portsmouth, Southampton or Lymington.

From Wikivoyage: Hampshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    50 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    243 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    483 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    559 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    596 km

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Around it

Next door to Swarraton

Swarraton is 39 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.