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# Brockenhurst

Brockenhurst is a large village in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England.

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## Every way there

- London → Brockenhurst 127 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £14–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-brockenhurst) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Brockenhurst)
- Bristol → Brockenhurst 100 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-brockenhurst) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Brockenhurst)
- Cardiff → Brockenhurst 134 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-brockenhurst) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Brockenhurst)

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 Brockenhurst, 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 Brockenhurst has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 101 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Puffin Cruises Departure Point, 7 km, Quay2Quay; 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.

50.820°, -1.580°

Southampton is 13 miles (21 km) to the north-east, and Bournemouth is 15 miles (24 km) south-west. Surrounding towns and villages include Beaulieu, Lymington, Lyndhurst, and Sway.

Get in

## Getting to Brockenhurst

1. Brockenhurst On the mainline railway from London Waterloo to Bournemouth via Southampton, which is served by at least one fast train from each of those cities every hour.

See

## Worth seeing

1. Blackwater Arboretum Rhinefield Ornamental Drive.
2. Royden Woods Ancient wood that is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Do

## Things to do

New Forest Show, New Park. 3 days in late July. agricultural show which attracts 100,000 visitors. Includes crafts, country pursuits and showjumping.

Eat

## Where to eat

1. The Snakecatcher Pub which specialises in dishes cooked on hot rocks.

How locals move

## Getting around Brockenhurst the local way

- Get in There is also a branch line railway from Brockenhurst to Lymington, principally to provide connections with the ferry service from there to the Isle of Wight.
- Get in From the south, you can reach Lymington from the Isle of Wight by the Wightlink car and passenger ferry which runs every half-hour.
- Get in The Hythe Ferry operates a half-hourly passenger ferry and pier tram service across Southampton Water from Town Quay, Southampton to the small town of Hythe, on the eastern edge of the New Forest.
- Get in During the 12-minute journey, if they are in port, the ferry passes the berth of the liner Queen Mary II.

From [Wikivoyage: New Forest](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/New_Forest), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-07.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockenhurst) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Brockenhurst), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: mattbuck (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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