Sway
Sway is a village and civil parish in Hampshire in the New Forest national park in England. The civil parish was formed in 1879, when lands were taken from the extensive parish of Boldre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 2,420 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Hampshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Sway, Hampshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sway railway station and Church of All Saints.
Sway railway station
Railway station
Photo: Stuart Buchan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sway railway station serves the village of Sway in Hampshire, England. It is located on the South West Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth. It is 95 miles 45 chains down the line from Waterloo.
Church of All Saints
Church
Photo: Michael FORD, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints is situated 2 miles south of Sway.
St John
Church
Photo: Michael Ford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John is a church, which is situated 2 miles west of Sway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiptoe and Ashley.
Tiptoe
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tiptoe is a small village in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. It lies mostly within the civil parish of Hordle and partly within the civil parish of Sway.
Ashley
Suburb
Ashley is a village located in the southwest of Hampshire, England. It lies on the eastern outskirts of New Milton in the New Forest district, and is two miles inland from the sea. Ashley is situated 2½ miles southwest of Sway.
Bashley
Hamlet
Bashley is a chapelry in the New Forest in the south west of Hampshire, England. It takes up the north of New Milton civil parish of a type having a town council, and is a semi-rural community in New Forest District, to which it contributes about a quarter of the population of the ward of the same name. Bashley is situated 2½ miles west of Sway.
Sway
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Sway, New Forest, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.78605° or 50° 47′ 10″ northLongitude
-1.60827° or 1° 36′ 30″ westPopulation
2,420Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SQWOpen location code
9C2WQ9PR+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 271324OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Sway” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sway (Hampshire)”
- Basque: “Sway”
- Bulgarian: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Bulgarian: “Sway”
- Catalan: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Catalan: “Sway”
- Cebuano: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Cebuano: “Sway”
- Dutch: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Dutch: “Sway”
- Finnish: “Sway, Hampshire”
- French: “Sway, Hampshire”
- French: “Sway”
- Galician: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Galician: “Sway”
- German: “Sway, Hampshire”
- German: “Sway”
- Irish: “Sway”
- Ladin: “Sway”
- Polish: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Polish: “Sway”
- Romanian: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Russian: “Суэй”
- Slovenian: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Slovenian: “Sway”
- Spanish: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Spanish: “Sway”
- Swedish: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Swedish: “Sway”
- Welsh: “Sway, Hampshire”
- Welsh: “Sway”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sway”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.