abstract:Fordingbridge is a town and civil parish with a population of 5,700 on the River Avon in the New Forest District of Hampshire, England, near to the Dorset and Wiltshire borders and on the edge of the New Forest.Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : New Forest Retrieved 27 July 2010 It is south west of London, and south of the city of Salisbury.
Martin Barden of Fordingbridge-based UK Cycling Events, which has organised the New Forest Sportive over the past five years, said it had benefited from the legacy of British cycling success at the 2012 Olympics and Tour de France.