Town in Hampshire, England

Farnborough

Farnborough is a town located in the Rushmoor district of Hampshire, England.

Every way there

London → Farnborough
50 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
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Luton, Luton → Farnborough
69 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £8–10
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London, Essex → Farnborough
50 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £5–7
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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 Farnborough, 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 Farnborough has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LHR), 28 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

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

51.290°, -0.750°

It has a population of around 60,652 as of the 2021 census and is an important centre of aviation, engineering and technology. The town is probably best known for its association with aviation, including Samuel Cody, Farnborough Airport, the Farnborough International Airshow, Royal Aircraft Establishment and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.

How locals move

Getting around Farnborough the local way

Get aroundFarnborough has a good network of cycle routes, the majority being either off-road or along lanes segregated from motor traffic.

From Wikivoyage: Farnborough, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: David Faulkner (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.