Fordingbridge is a community as well as more comprehensive civil parish with a population of 6,000 on the River Avon in the New Forest District of Hampshire, England, near to the Dorset as well as Wiltshire boundaries and on the edge of the New Forest, with gallery and a late middle ages 7-arch bridge. It is 81 miles (130 kilometres) southwest of London, and also 10 miles (16 km) south of the city of Salisbury. Fordingbridge is a former market town. The Avon Valley Path travels through the town. The town omitting straight settlement Sandleheath (consisted of in its headline population with other removed houses, totalling 1,526 homeowners) has a thickness of 30.2 persons per hectare. Fordingbridge is a town and also civil parish in Hampshire on the banks of the River Avon. The first Great Bridge, from which the town obtained its present name, was built in mediaeval times, and is upstream from the ford. The bridge is a significant function of the community with its 7 elegant arcs, which can be seen really easily from the community's big waterfront park where one can stroll along the riverbank draped with willows and waterside plants. Close by is a kids's backyard, remote memorial gardens, parks and also sports playing areas. A bronze statuary of the painter Augustus John bases on the financial institutions of the Avon near the Great Bridge.