License-free car routes from Southampton

36 license-free car routes from Southampton (Hampshire). Every trip is suited to a license-free car: no motorway or expressway, top speed 45 km/h.

From Southampton (Hampshire), TacTac offers 36 license-free car routes, from 24 to 194 km, toward 2 regions. Every trip avoids motorways and expressways, which are banned for light quadricycles, and is worked out at a top speed of 45 km/h.

36
license-free routes
24 km
shortest trip
194 km
longest trip
0 km
motorway

What these routes from Southampton cover

Of the 36 routes worked out from Southampton, 1 are under 30 km, 1 fall between 30 and 60 km and 34 go beyond 60 km. The shortest reaches Portsmouth, 24 km away, about 36 min at 45 km/h. The longest runs to Swansea, 194 km and 4h 51min of driving.

For an electric license-free car, range is the question. Counting about a hundred kilometres per charge, 11 of these 36 routes are done in one go, and 25 need a charge on the way or an overnight stop. A petrol one covers the lot with no constraint, on a tank of around 20 litres.

These distances are not straight-line measurements: they come from TacTac's route calculation, which leaves out the motorways and expressways banned for light quadricycles and works at a 45 km/h top speed. A Southampton → Portsmouth therefore looks longer than in an ordinary car, but it matches the road you can actually drive.

Toward England (32 routes)

Southampton → Portsmouth Hampshire
24 km 36 min
Southampton → Bournemouth Dorset
40 km 1h
Southampton → Reading Berkshire
67 km 1h 41min
Southampton → Guildford Surrey
69 km 1h 44min
Southampton → Woking Surrey
74 km 1h 51min
Southampton → Swindon Wiltshire
76 km 1h 54min
Southampton → Bath Somerset
85 km 2h 8min
Southampton → Slough Berkshire
87 km 2h 11min
Southampton → Crawley West Sussex
88 km 2h 12min
Southampton → Brighton East Sussex
89 km 2h 14min
Southampton → Oxford Oxfordshire
94 km 2h 21min
Southampton → Bristol Bristol
102 km 2h 33min
Southampton → Watford Hertfordshire
109 km 2h 44min
Southampton → London Greater London
111 km 2h 47min
Southampton → St Albans Hertfordshire
120 km 3h
Southampton → Cheltenham Gloucestershire
120 km 3h
Southampton → Gloucester Gloucestershire
121 km 3h 2min
Southampton → Luton Bedfordshire
128 km 3h 12min
Southampton → Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire
133 km 3h 20min
Southampton → Maidstone Kent
140 km 3h 30min
Southampton → Exeter Devon
151 km 3h 47min
Southampton → Northampton Northamptonshire
152 km 3h 48min
Southampton → Worcester Worcestershire
154 km 3h 51min
Southampton → Chelmsford Essex
159 km 3h 59min
Southampton → Southend-on-Sea Essex
163 km 4h 5min
Southampton → Coventry West Midlands
167 km 4h 11min
Southampton → Birmingham West Midlands
178 km 4h 27min
Southampton → Canterbury Kent
178 km 4h 27min
Southampton → Cambridge Cambridgeshire
179 km 4h 29min
Southampton → Leicester Leicestershire
193 km 4h 50min
Southampton → Wolverhampton West Midlands
193 km 4h 50min
Southampton → Colchester Essex
193 km 4h 50min

Toward Wales (4 routes)

Southampton → Newport Newport
134 km 3h 21min
Southampton → Cardiff Cardiff
139 km 3h 29min
Southampton → Barry Vale of Glamorgan
141 km 3h 32min
Southampton → Swansea Swansea
194 km 4h 51min

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