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Verwood

Verwood is a town and civil parish in eastern Dorset, England.

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The place

Verwood is a town and civil parish in eastern Dorset, England. The town lies 10 miles (16 km) north of Bournemouth and 13 miles (21 km) north east of Poole as the crow flies. The civil parish comprises the town of Verwood together with the extended village of Three Legged Cross, and in 2014 had a population of 15,170. Verwood is the largest town in Dorset without an upper school. It sits on the River Crane which later becomes Moors River.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Verwood

6 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
    Cranborne Manor

    Cranborne Manor is a Grade I listed country house in Cranborne, Dorset, in southern England. The manor dates back to around 1207/8, and was originally a hunting lodge.

    5.3 km · Grade I listed English country house in East Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lions Hill

    Lions Hill is a 42.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, notified in 1985.

    5.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Moors Valley Country Park

    Moors Valley Country Park, officially Moors Valley Country Park and Forest, is a Country Park jointly managed by Dorset Council and Forestry England. It is situated in Ashley Heath, Dorset on the border with Hampshire, in the south of England.

    3.9 km · country park in Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Somerley

    Somerley is a large Georgian Grade II* listed English country house that is situated in the civil parish of Ellingham and Harbridge with Ibsley in the New Forest district in Hampshire, England. It is 2 miles west of the New Forest National Park.

    4.9 km · country house in Hampshire, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Avon Valley (Bickton to Christchurch)

    Avon Valley is a 1,403.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches from Christchurch in Dorset to Bickton, south of Fordingbridge Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, a Ramsar site, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection Area.

    5.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Edmondsham House

    Edmondsham House is an English country house in Edmondsham near Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England. The house is Tudor with Georgian additions and is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.5 km · country house in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Verwood

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 81 km · Cardiff (CWL), 117 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 119 km
Stations
Ashley Heath Halt railway station, 5.2 km · Daggons Road railway station, 4.3 km · Verwood railway station, 900 m
  • Bristol → Verwood
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
  • London → Verwood
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £15–20
  • Cardiff → Verwood
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Verwood

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    46 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    198 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    539 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    592 km

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

Around it

Next door to Verwood

  • Cranbornevillage in Dorset, England, United Kingdom5.2 km
  • Alderholtvillage in Dorset, England, UK4.8 km
  • Woodlandsvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England3.5 km
  • Hortonvillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK5.7 km
  • Edmondshamvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.3 km
  • Harbridgevillage in Hampshire, England, UK5.9 km