Fordingbridge is a community and also wider civil parish with a population of 6,000 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, with gallery and also a late medieval 7-arch bridge. It is 81 miles (130 km) southwest of London, and also 10 miles (16 kilometres) south of the city of Salisbury. Fordingbridge is a former market community. The Avon Valley Path goes through the town. The town leaving out straight settlement Sandleheath (included in its headline population with various other outlying houses, completing 1,526 residents) has a thickness of 30.2 persons per hectare. Fordingbridge is a community and also civil parish in Hampshire on the financial institutions of the River Avon. The very first Great Bridge, from which the community got its present name, was built in mediaeval times, and also is upstream from the ford. The bridge is a major feature of the town with its seven elegant arcs, which can be seen extremely conveniently from the community's big waterfront park where one can stroll along the riverbank draped with willows as well as waterside plants. Nearby is a youngsters's backyard, remote memorial gardens, parks and also sporting activities playing fields. A bronze sculpture of the painter Augustus John bases on the banks of the Avon near the Great Bridge.