Buckler's Hard
1817 Reviews
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Buckler's Hard Maritime Museum | New Forest, Hampshire | Visit Buckler's Hard, an 18th century shipbuilding village where ships were built. Based on the Beaulieu River, in the New Forest.
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Bucklers Hard, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst SO42 7XB
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- Wheelchair-accessible entrance
- Wheelchair-accessible toilet
- Wheelchair-accessible car park
- Toilets
- Good for kids
- Restaurant
Recommended Reviews
Trevor Weeks
05.03.2024
Buckler's Hard
Great place that you can walk around free. The visitor centre you need to pay to enter, but gift shop free. There is a house and Chapel which are free to enter too. A wood workers workshop has a video running. The open areas have stunning scenery. There is even a restaurant and pub albeit a rather posh one.
Liakat Khan
01.03.2024
Buckler's Hard
This place has a local history of a once thriving shipping village which became famous for building warships. Its also a nice place to have a picnic and if you are more adventurous, there is a boat ride available. Well worth a visit.
Maggie Pinkney
24.02.2024
Buckler's Hard
Beautiful area on Beaulieu River...can walk down to shore and there is a track to walk to Beaulieu village approx 2 miles.Parking free 15 mins then pay when leave. More car park is camera monitored.Some of houses open... shipwrights cottage and Chapel.Museum pay to enter and v nice shop.Well worth a visit.Cafe by car park.
Michelle Harrison
20.02.2024
Buckler's Hard
Lovely walk back in history. There is a river boat tour. You can also go paddling but understand there is a small fee. Lovely restaurant and cafe on site for food, drinks, and cream tea.
Kay Stobbart
18.02.2024
Buckler's Hard
Visited today in the rain. Plenty of parking which we paid for on leaving at the machine. There is a camera that registers your number plate on arrival.I am not really into Naval ships but thoroughly enjoyed the museum. There was so much to see and read. It was fascinating reading about the Persia ship and the artefacts salvaged.We also enjoyed the Chapel, a shipwrights cottage that had a wonderful reconstruction of characters, and there was even an old pub.We shall definitely visit again to walk by the harbour and go on a boat trip.
Mike Billington
19.01.2024
Buckler's Hard
Easy parking, disabled spaces near the entrance, and a good cafe/restaurant. Great views as you walk down to the river with the old cottages on either side.There is a regular 30 minute boat trip down the Beaulieu river, very scenic and the captain gives a very interesting full history of the river. A trip not to be missed. The walk down to the river is sloped and on shingles but our quingo mobility scooter managed it both ways with no problems.There's also a pub, gift shop & museum but we ran out of time. A very nice place to visit so will come back again
Alison Francombe
17.01.2024
Buckler's Hard
Lovely place to visit. Went on a boat cruise which was lovely. Had a look around a beautiful place. Only paid £7.50 each for 30mins cruise which was good and looked.around.the cottages. Didn't go into museum and paid for parking on the way out as they take a pic of your car reg coming in. Worth a visit
Debbie Mitchell
26.12.2023
Buckler's Hard
Lovely views by the water and old cottages but only one or two open to the public very expensive, was there just over an hour and parking was £4.80! Didn't bother with boat ride round the harbour but its beautiful place.
Tony Payne
22.12.2023
Buckler's Hard
We didn't visit the museum, just wanted to walk from Bucklers Hard to Beaulieu and back. This was a lovely walk and we were looking forward to an ice cream in the cafe at Bucklers Hard when we got back but sadly the cafe was closed.There is a new visitors centre and museum so we will have to go back and see this another time. The car park has a good payment system so you don't have to try and guess how long you are going to be and it doesn't require you to use an app.
Sarah Harleyquinn
19.12.2023
Buckler's Hard
Coming from the New Forest I knew about this place but had never been. It's free to park for first 15 minutes but then £2.80 upwards after. It's £5.90 to enter Museum but free to walk down pass the houses and see boats and beautiful views. You can walk 2 miles to Beaulieu along the water. There is a cafe there. It's beautiful and the scenery is too. Just love the New forest
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Bucklers Hard, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst SO42 7XB
Buckler's Hard