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Waltham Chase

Waltham Chase is a village in Hampshire, England, neighbouring the town of Bishop's Waltham.

Waltham Chase
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The place

Waltham Chase is a village in Hampshire, England, neighbouring the town of Bishop's Waltham. It is in the civil parish of Shedfield, comprising about two square kilometres of land to the south-east of Bishop's Waltham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Waltham Chase

4 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
    New Place, Shirrell Heath

    New Place, Shirrell Heath, Shedfield, Hampshire, England, is a former country house, now a hotel, designed by Edwin Lutyens. It is a Grade I listed building.

    2 km · country house hotel in Hampshire, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bishop's Waltham Palace

    Bishop's Waltham Palace is a moated Bishop's Palace ruin in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England.

    2.4 km · palace ruins in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Galley Down Wood

    Galley Down Wood is a 16.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire. This wood, which was planted with beech trees in around 1930, has a well developed beech flora.

    3.6 km · geological site in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Barnabas

    The Church of St Barnabas is the Church of England parish church of Swanmore near Southampton in Hampshire, England. It was constructed in 1844 and is a grade II listed building.

    1.3 km · church in Swanmore, Hampshire, England · 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.

Go there

Getting to Waltham Chase

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 74 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km · Bristol (BRS), 117 km
  • London → Waltham Chase
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £11–15
  • Bristol → Waltham Chase
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → Waltham Chase
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Waltham Chase

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe CityLink bus runs from the station via the Westquay shopping centre to Town Quay, where the catamaran to the Isle of Wight and the ferry to Hythe depart.
  • Get inThere are no international ferry services: these call in Portsmouth about to the east.
  • Get inHowever, regular vehicle and passenger ferries operate to Southampton from Cowes on the nearby Isle of Wight and the village of Hythe in the New Forest.

From Wikivoyage: Southampton, 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

    29 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    244 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    495 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    579 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    615 km

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

Around it

Next door to Waltham Chase

Waltham Chase is 60 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bishop's Walthamtown and civil parish in Hampshire, UK2.3 km
  • Shedfieldvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England, UK2.5 km
  • Swanmorevillage and civil parish in Hampshire, UK1.3 km
  • Droxfordvillage and civil parish in Hampshire, England3.6 km
  • Shirrell Heathvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom1.3 km
  • Mislingfordvillage in Hampshire, United Kingdom2.4 km