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Talbot Village

Talbot Village is a neighbourhood on the boundary of Bournemouth and Poole in Dorset, England.

Talbot Village
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The place

Talbot Village is a neighbourhood on the boundary of Bournemouth and Poole in Dorset, England. It was built as a model village between 1850 and 1862, funded by the sisters Georgina and Mary Talbot. Today it is a conservation area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Talbot Village

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
    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.

    400 m · university in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.8 km · art museum in Bournemouth, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dean Park Cricket Ground

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

    2.9 km · cricket ground in Bournemouth, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    600 m · further and higher education university college based in Poole, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.8 km · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.3 km · church in Bournemouth, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Dunstan of Canterbury Orthodox Church

    St Dunstan of Canterbury Orthodox Church is an Antiochian Orthodox church in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. It is the parish church for Bournemouth and Poole within the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of The British Isles and Ireland.

    3.9 km · Grade II* listed church in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Andrew

    St. Andrew's Church is a Grade II* listed historic parish church in Kinson, Bournemouth, Dorset.

    2.8 km · church in Kinson, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Bournemouth Town Hall

    Bournemouth Town Hall, also known as the Civic Centre and formerly the Mont Dore Hotel, is a municipal facility in Bourne Avenue, Bournemouth, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.9 km · town hall 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.

    3.4 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.

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Getting to Talbot Village

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 91 km · Cardiff (CWL), 124 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 128 km
Stations
Bournemouth railway station, 3.2 km · Branksome railway station, 2.6 km · Bournemouth West railway station, 2.8 km · Meyrick Park Halt railway station, 2 km
  • Bristol → Talbot Village
    93 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £11–14
  • London → Talbot Village
    150 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £16–21
  • Cardiff → Talbot Village
    121 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Talbot Village

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 Talbot Village. 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

    42 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    200 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    548 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    579 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    598 km

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

Around it

Next door to Talbot Village

  • Bournemouthtown and civil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, England3.2 km
  • Ferndowntown in Dorset, England, UK4 km
  • Branksomesuburb of Poole in Dorset, England2.8 km
  • Throopvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.9 km
  • Springbournesuburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England3.8 km
  • Charminstersuburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England2.5 km