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Sopley
Village in Hampshire, England

Sopley

Sopley is a village and civil parish in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England.

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The village lies on the old main road from Christchurch to Ringwood, on the east bank of the River Avon. The parish extends east as far as Thorny Hill and includes the hamlets of Shirley, Avon and Ripley. The area is mainly rural with fewer than 300 dwellings. The population of the parish at the 2021 census was 1,028.

How locals move

Getting around Sopley the local way

  • Go nextGood location for day trips to the New Forest, Lymington and Beaulieu.

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

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