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# Barton on Sea

Barton on Sea is a cliff-top village in the civil parish of New Milton, in the New Forest district, in Hampshire, England close to the town of New Milton to the north.

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## Every way there

- London → Barton on Sea 138 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-barton-on-sea) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Barton+on+Sea)
- Bristol → Barton on Sea 102 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-barton-on-sea) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Barton+on+Sea)
- Cardiff → Barton on Sea 133 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £18–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-barton-on-sea) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Barton+on+Sea)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Barton on Sea, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Barton on Sea has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 103 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Mudeford Ferry, 6 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

50.743°, -1.655°

As a settlement, Barton has a history dating back to Anglo-Saxon times. Barton is notable for the many fossils to be found in the Barton geological beds in the cliffs, as well as for the significant sea defences built to guard the cliffs against coastal erosion. Barton on Sea is a very popular retirement location. Approximately 36% of the population is retired. The population of Barton in the 2001 census was 6,849.

How locals move

## Getting around Barton on Sea the local way

- 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_on_Sea), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: ITookSomePhotos (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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