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Hurst Spit

Hurst Spit

Hurst Spit is a one-mile-long (1.6 km) shingle bank near the village of Keyhaven, at the western end of the Solent, on the south coast of England.

Plan a trip to Hurst Spit From London

The spit shelters an area of saltmarsh and mudflats known as Keyhaven and Pennington marshes. At the end of the spit is Hurst Castle, an artillery fortress originally built on the orders of King Henry VIII, and much enlarged in the 19th century. Hurst Point Lighthouse was built on the end of Hurst Spit in the 1860s.

How locals move

Getting around Hurst Spit the local way

  • Get inFrom a mainland location, the best approach is to use the Wightlink car and passenger ferry which runs every half-hour direct to Yarmouth.
  • Get inThis ferry operates from Lymington (on the mainland) and has good rail and road connections (as described in the Lymington article).
  • Get inTaking a car on the ferry can be quite expensive; for short visits it may be better to park in the car park at Lymington Pier and board the ferry as a foot passenger.

From Wikivoyage: Yarmouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

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