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Netley Marsh
Village in Hampshire, England

Netley Marsh

Netley Marsh is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, close to the town of Totton.

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It lies within the New Forest District, and the New Forest National Park. It is the supposed site of the battle between an invading Anglo Saxon army, under Cerdic and a British army under the probably fictitious king Natanleod in the year 508.

How locals move

Getting around Netley Marsh the local way

  • Get inThere 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 inFrom the south, you can reach Lymington from the Isle of Wight by the Wightlink car and passenger ferry which runs every half-hour.
  • Get inThe 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 inDuring the 12-minute journey, if they are in port, the ferry passes the berth of the liner Queen Mary II.

From Wikivoyage: New Forest, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-07.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Hassocks5489 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.