--- title: "Verwood – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Verwood, United Kingdom: Verwood is a town and civil parish in eastern Dorset, England. Nearby: Cranborne Manor, Lions Hill, Moors Valley Country Park.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/verwood" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/verwood.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/St_Michael_and_All_Angels_Church%2C_Church_Hill%2C_Verwood_%28June_2022%29_%286%29.jpg/1920px-St_Michael_and_All_Angels_Church%2C_Church_Hill%2C_Verwood_%28June_2022%29_%286%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in Dorset, England · United Kingdom # Verwood Verwood is a town and civil parish in eastern Dorset, England. ![Verwood](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/St_Michael_and_All_Angels_Church%2C_Church_Hill%2C_Verwood_%28June_2022%29_%286%29.jpg/1920px-St_Michael_and_All_Angels_Church%2C_Church_Hill%2C_Verwood_%28June_2022%29_%286%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Verwood · User:Hassocks5489 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verwood), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranborne_Manor) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Hill) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_Valley_Country_Park) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerley) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon_Valley_(Bickton_to_Christchurch%29) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmondsham_House) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-verwood) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Verwood) - London → Verwood 140 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-verwood) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Verwood) - Cardiff → Verwood 113 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-verwood) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Verwood) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Verwood) 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 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 46 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 198 km 3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 539 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 565 km 5. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) 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](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cverwood&title=Verwood&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fverwood), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Verwood - [Cranborne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cranborne) village in Dorset, England, United Kingdom 5.2 km - [Alderholt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/alderholt) village in Dorset, England, UK 4.8 km - [Woodlands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/woodlands) village and civil parish in Dorset, England 3.5 km - [Horton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/horton) village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK 5.7 km - [Edmondsham](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/edmondsham) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.3 km - [Harbridge](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/harbridge) village in Hampshire, England, UK 5.9 km [The place page for Verwood](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/verwood) [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/verwood, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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