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Hythe Ferry station

Name: Hythe Ferry station
Address: Prospect Place, Hythe, England, GB

Recomendado por 6 personas locales,

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Stewart

February 13, 2017

The Hythe ferry is the perfect way to travel to Southampton for a day trip. You start with a tip on the pier train, which is the oldest continuously operating public pier train in the world. A short 20 min ferry ride, offers the best views of the ships, then drops you in the heart of Southampton.

Janice

September 21, 2017

take a ferry ride across to Southampton includes a train ride to the end of the pier to get onto the ferry

A & J

May 19, 2020

Hythe Pier, the Hythe Pier Railway and the Hythe Ferry provide a link between the English port city of Southampton and the Hampshire village of Hythe on the west side of Southampton Water. It is used both by commuters and tourists and forms an important link in the Solent Way and E9 European coastal paths. A ferry has operated from Hythe to Southampton since the Middle Ages, and it is marked on a map by Christopher Saxton of 1575. Steam vessels were introduced in 1830. From 1889 the Percy family were involved in the running of the ferry, and from 1900 to 1980 the service was run by the General Estates Company, owned by the Percy family. As a consequence of this, many of the ferries used carried the name Hotspur, named after Henry Percy or Hotspur, who was immortalised by William Shakespeare. On your arrival at Hythe Pier you can jump on the world’s oldest electric train, which will transport you to the pier entrance at Hythe. Hythe Pier Railway is Britain’s oldest continuously operating electric pier train and has been awarded a certificate to that effect by the Guinness Book of World Records.