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# Hampreston

Hampreston is a small village in the civil parish of Ferndown Town in Dorset, southern England.

[Plan a trip to Hampreston](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Hampreston) [From Bristol](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Hampreston)

## Every way there

- Bristol → Hampreston 88 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £10–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-hampreston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Hampreston)
- London → Hampreston 149 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-hampreston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Hampreston)
- Cardiff → Hampreston 116 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-hampreston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Hampreston)

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 Hampreston, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Hampreston](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hampreston)

What Hampreston has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 86 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Ro-Ro 2, 10 km, Greenslade Pleasure Boats; 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. Nearest place with more: Bournemouth, 8 km.

50.789°, -1.925°

Until 1986 the whole parish took the name of Hampreston, with its population rising from 1,860 in 1921 to 11,750 in 1971.

How locals move

## Getting around Hampreston the local way

- Go next One option is to take the open top bus via the Sandbanks ferry in the summer for approx £5 from central Bournemouth and change at Swanage.

From [Wikivoyage: Bournemouth](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bournemouth), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampreston), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: User:Hassocks5489 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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