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Bishopstoke
Village and parish in Hampshire, England

Bishopstoke

Bishopstoke is a village and civil parish in the Eastleigh district of Hampshire, England.

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It is recorded as "Stoke" as early as 948 AD when King Eadred granted land there to a thegn called Aelfric. Stoke later came into the possession of the Bishops of Winchester, giving rise to the modern name. The village is about a mile east of Eastleigh town centre, and is on the eastern bank of the River Itchen. It adjoins Fair Oak on the east.

Get in

Getting to Bishopstoke

Wikivoyage has a guide to Rail travel in Great Britain Eastleigh has good national rail links; the three stations serving the area are all on the South Western Main Line from London to Weymouth.

  1. 01
    Eastleigh Station

    The South Western Railway service from London Waterloo runs every 30 min to 1 hr, and the journey takes 1 hr 20 min.

  2. 02
    Chandler's Ford Station

    Very similar service pattern to Eastleigh station.

  3. 03
    Southampton Airport Parkway Station

    Crosscountry and South Western services from Bournemouth (45 min), Reading (45 min), Birmingham New Street (2 hr 30 min) and Manchester Piccadilly (4 hr) are available.

  4. 04
    Southampton Airport
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Eastleigh Museum

    The museum contains information about how Eastleigh became a railway town and the history of the railway in Eastleigh.

  2. 02
    St Mary's Church
  3. 03
    Marwell Zoological Park

    Accessible by road or by Stagecoach bus 69 (4 buses on Su only)),.

  4. 04
    The Railwayman Statue

    A statue celebrating Eastleigh's railway history.

  5. 05
    Charlotte Mary Yonge Statue
  6. 06
    Shears Mill
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Vue Cinemas

    Swan Centre.

  2. 02
    Hollywood Bowl Eastleigh
  3. 03
    The Point
  4. 04
    Partyman World of Play

    Large indoor soft play area for children.

  5. 05
    Leigh Road Park

    Park with bandstand, war memorial and children's playground.

  6. 06
    Lakeside Country Park

    An area of land left behind by the gravel extraction for the M27 Motorway.

Eat

Where to eat

The majority of places to eat are in the places mentioned in the 'Buy' section above, but here are nine that aren't:

  1. 01
    Badi Mirchi

    Traditional Indian restaurant serving lots of dishes containing chilli; their name does mean "big chilli" in Hindi after all!

  2. 02
    Hursley Café

    4 Hursley Rd, Chandler's Ford, SO53 2FU,.

  3. 03
    The Cleveland Bay

    1 Pilgrims Cl, Chandler's Ford SO53 4ST,.

  4. 04
    Sandra's Fish & Chips
  5. 05
    The Hiltonbury Farmhouse

    North Millers Dale, Chandler's Ford, SO53 1SZ, manager@lanterninns.co.uk.

How locals move

Getting around Bishopstoke the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Hassocks5489 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.