Hurst Point
Hurst Point is a cape in Milford-on-Sea, New Forest, England. Hurst Point is situated nearby to the locality North Point, as well as near Cliff End.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hurst Point Lighthouse and Hurst Spit.
Hurst Point Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Hertzsprung, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hurst Point Lighthouse is located at Hurst Point in the English county of Hampshire, and guides vessels through the western approaches to the Solent.
Hurst Spit
Beach
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hurst Spit is a one-mile-long shingle bank near the village of Keyhaven, at the western end of the Solent, on the south coast of England. The spit shelters an area of saltmarsh and mudflats known as Keyhaven and Pennington marshes.
Fort Victoria
Castle
Photo: Ranger Steve, Public domain.
Fort Victoria is a former military fort on the Isle of Wight, England, built to guard the Solent. The earliest fort on the site was a coastal fort known as Sharpenode Bulwark built in 1545–1547 by Henry VIII, but these defences had fallen into disrepair by the 17th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keyhaven and Colwell Bay.
Keyhaven
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keyhaven is a hamlet on the south coast of England in the county of Hampshire. It is a fishing village, but the trade has been in decline for a period of years and its main draw now is tourism, especially sailing.
Colwell Bay
Village
Colwell Bay is a bay in the west of the Isle of Wight. It is located between the towns of Totland and Yarmouth. The bay's northernmost point is Cliff's End the closest point of the Island to the British mainland, with Hurst Castle situated at the end of a long peninsula just under a mile to the northwest.
Norton Green
Hamlet
Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Norton Green is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight. It is located just north of Freshwater in the west of the island.
Hurst Point
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Milford-on-Sea, New Forest, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.70864° or 50° 42′ 31″ northLongitude
-1.54814° or 1° 32′ 53″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9C2WPF52+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 12294323440OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2646354
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