Eastleigh

Badi Mirchi

Traditional Indian restaurant serving lots of dishes containing chilli; their name does mean "big chilli" in Hindi after all!

5PM–10:30PM·Mains about £10 each

Bishopstoke Players

If your visit coincides with the staging of a performance by the talented Bishopstoke Players and you book early enough, you are in for a treat.

Bournemouth Road

A group of lots of different types of shops including a butchers.

Eastleigh Museum

The museum contains information about how Eastleigh became a railway town and the history of the railway in Eastleigh.

Mon–Fri 10AM–4PM, Sat 10AM–2PM

Good Earth

Chinese takeaway serving both oriental and Cantonese cuisine. Takeaway or delivery only.

Wed Thu 5PM–10PM, Fri Sat 5PM–11PM, Sun Mon 5PM–10PM, Tue closed·About £20 for a starter, main, dessert and drink; free delivery for orders over £18

Hiltingbury Lakes

About 17 acres of water, woodland and wildlife. Here you can enjoy walking, fishing or just watching the wildlife.

Hursley Café

Café open for breakfast and lunch. Vegetarian options available.

Mon–Sat 7AM–4PM, Sun 8AM–3PM·Breakfasts from £10, prices for mains range between £5 and £20

Itchen Valley Country Park

Woodlands and meadows with a play trail, a café and a Go Ape assault course.

Itchen Way

Ramblers can use to reach other locations along the valley of the river Itchen including Allbrook (home of Mary Beale, the artist, during the late 1660s) Brambridge (home of Maria Fitzherbert in the mid 1700s), Shawford, St Cross & Winchester.

Lakeside Country Park

An area of land left behind by the gravel extraction for the M27 Motorway. The three large holes are now flooded and provide a very pleasant green belt between Southampton and Eastleigh. Fishing, walking and birdwatching are all possible at the site, and there is a miniature railway that runs March-September.

Marwell Activity Centre

Marwell Resort

A range of fun guided woodland activities: an aerial obstacle course with tight-ropes and a zip-wire; archery; clay-pigeon shooting; quad biking. All sessions last 90 min with qualified instructors, and all are for adults and children aged 8 and over, unless otherwise stated. You can also purchase day passes for fishing on the resort's lake.

9:30AM–5:30PM·Aerial adventure £25, archery £18, shooting £48 (people aged 16+ only); quad biking £27 (children aged 8-15); fishing £15 per day

Marwell Zoological Park

The park has over 200 rare and endangered species of animals. The Marwell Preservation Trust is dedicated to conservation and increased knowledge of all living creatures. Marwell Hall is located here.

Apr-Oct: daily 10AM–6PM; Nov-Mar: daily 10AM–4PM; last admission 90 minutes before close; closed Dec 25th·£11.50 adult; £9.50 senior or student; £8 child

Places Leisure

formerly Fleming Park

Leisure centre with indoor pools, a gym, tennis and squash courts and a large park. The park contains a large playground and a paddling pool (open May-September). The Pavilion on the Park on the corner of Kingfisher Rd is a community venue with halls, suites and the Blackbird Café.

Riverside

A small collection of stores on the corner of Riverside and Spring Ln. Stores include a post office and a Central convenience store.

Sandra's Fish & Chips

formerly Golden Fry Chip Shop

Fish and chip shop also serving burgers and sandwiches. Eat-in and takeaway.

Tue–Sat 11:30AM–2PM, 4:30PM–9PM; Sun Mon closed·Prices vary from £5 to £10 depending on the size of the meal

St Mary's Church

John "Bilious" Bale, a medieval rector, writer and playwright once preached his infamous sermons here. Samuel Sewall, a judge in the Salem Witch Trials, was baptised here. The church was named after an demolished in the 19th century, this site now has some old ruins and a graveyard. Inside the church is a large pipe organ.

Steam Town Brew Co.

Craft brewery and tap room with outside seating on the on-street terrace. They serve and sell a range of their own beers and guests by bottle, can and mini-keg, as well as offering a range of "dirty" burgers and fries for the peckish.

Mon–Thu 4PM–11PM, Fri–Sun noon–11PM

Taroka

Takeaway serving traditional Bangladeshi dishes as well as "house specials" - dishes made with the restaurant's own recipe.

5PM–11PM·About £10 for a starter and a main

Ten Acres

Silverlake Stadium

(capacity 5200, half seated) is a mile south of town centre, use Southampton Airport Parkway railway station.

The Cleveland Bay

Wadworth pub with a children's play area and a pool table. They serve a range of mainly meat-based dishes, however vegetarian options are available.

Tue–Thu noon–10PM, Fri Sat noon–11PM, Sun noon–8PM, Mon closed·Starter, main and dessert about £20 per person

The Concorde Club

Oldest jazz club under the same management in the United Kingdom and possibly the world. Also on-site are the Moldy Fig restaurant and the Ellington Lodge hotel.

Mon–Fri 5PM–late, Sat Sun 11AM–late

The Cricketers Arms

Greene King pub with a large selection of alcohol and a traditional British theme.

11AM–11PM·Starter, main and dessert around £20

The Hiltonbury Farmhouse

Stylish pub with large beer garden serving classics such as steaks, salads and sea bass. They also have a decent pizza menu, baked in their gas-fired pizza oven. Drinks-wise, they're particularly known for their impressive gin selection: no fewer than 11 locally-distilled, and many more from all over.

Mon–Thu 11AM–11PM, Fri Sat 11AM–midnight, Sun noon–10:30PM·Mains £10-£26, pizzas £14, Sunday roast £16/£20 for two/three courses

The Hub

Sports and recreation facility with large green area. The River Itchen runs alongside it.

The Swan Centre

The Swan Centre, and the two streets behind it, contain most of the shops in Eastleigh, and is sometimes considered as a smaller version of Westquay. There are a wide range of stores and cafés here. There is a market on Thursdays and Saturdays. A map of the shopping centre can be found here.

The Wagon Works

formerly Home Tavern

JD Wetherspoon pub with posters containing information about the history of the town and local author Charlotte Yonge.

Sun–Thu 9AM–10PM, Fri Sat 9AM–11PM

Adore

Fast-food takeaway, mainly offering pizza and burgers.

Sun–Thu 4PM–midnight, Fri Sat noon–midnight·Pizzas and kebabs about £10 each, burgers about £5 each

Asda

Large hypermarket with a petrol station.

Boyatt Shopping Centre

A line of shops with a pharmacy.

Charlotte Mary Yonge Statue

also known as the Charlotte Yonge Statue

A statue of the novelist who named Eastleigh.