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# 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.

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## Every way there

- London → Hurst Spit 209 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-hurst-spit) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Hurst+Spit)
- Bristol → Hurst Spit 207 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £23–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-hurst-spit) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Hurst+Spit)
- Cardiff → Hurst Spit 221 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · £25–34 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-hurst-spit) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Hurst+Spit)

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 Hurst Spit, 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 Hurst Spit has

- Y Scheduled flights London (LGW), 108 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Hurst Castle Ferry, 0 km; 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, 23 km.

50.706°, -1.551°

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 in From a mainland location, the best approach is to use the Wightlink car and passenger ferry which runs every half-hour direct to Yarmouth.
- Get in This ferry operates from Lymington (on the mainland) and has good rail and road connections (as described in the Lymington article).
- Get in Taking 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)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Yarmouth_(England%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

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


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