--- title: "Sway – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Sway, United Kingdom: village. Nearby: Lymington River SSSI. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sway" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sway.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village · United Kingdom · England # Sway What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Sway One place 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. Lymington River SSSI Lymington River SSSI is a 34.8-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest along Lymington River and its tributaries between Lymington, Burley and Stoney Cross in Hampshire. Highland Water is a Geological Conservation Review site and Ober Water is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Parts of the site are in The New Forest and Solent and Southampton Water Ramsar sites, and in The New Forest Special Protection Area. 3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymington_River_SSSI) 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 Sway **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 102 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 107 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 110 km\ **Stations:** Brockenhurst railway station, 3.9 km · Sway railway station, 500 m\ - London → Sway 131 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-sway) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Sway) - Bristol → Sway 102 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-sway) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Sway) - Cardiff → Sway 134 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £18–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-sway) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Sway) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Sway) 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 Sway 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 Sway. 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 24 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 219 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 528 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 582 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 614 km If you know how people move in Sway – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csway&title=Sway&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsway), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Sway - [Hordle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hordle) village in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom 3.2 km - [Boldre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boldre) village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, UK 3.5 km - [Tiptoe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tiptoe) village in Hampshire, England, UK 2.6 km - [Battramsley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/battramsley) hamlet in Hampshire, England, UK 2.4 km - [Wootton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wootton) hamlet in New Forest, Hampshire, United Kingdom 3.6 km [The place page for Sway](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/sway) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sway, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt