Business events in Totton

The district's largest built-up area

The ONS put the Totton built-up area at 28,090 people at the 2021 Census, more than Hythe and Dibden Purlieu (19,855), Lymington (14,865), Ringwood (12,785) or New Milton (11,870) on the same table. It shares a town council with Eling, beside it, and sits in New Forest District Council's area.

Nobody publishes a business count for Totton alone. The nearest is the district's: 7,855 enterprises across New Forest district in the ONS business register for 2026, which takes in the forest towns and villages as well as Totton.

Small units at Rushington

One place stands out for small firms. The New Forest Enterprise Centre, on Chapel Lane, appears on New Forest District Council's list of outside bodies, described as owning and managing 71 small industrial units at Rushington, Totton, with the aim of promoting new business in the community. It has also been used for business workshops: see New Forest Enterprise Centre.

Eling and its tide mill

At Eling is one of the area's more unusual buildings. The Eling Experience, run by Totton and Eling Town Council since 2009, says the earliest surviving reference to a mill here is in the Domesday Book of 1086, that the present building is over 200 years old, and that New Forest District Council bought the mill in 1975. One waterwheel and one set of millstones have been restored and the mill is producing flour again. Historic England lists the tide mill at Grade II*, as it does the nearby Church of St Mary.

Getting here

Totton station is on Station Road North, managed by South Western Railway, with platform 1 for London bound trains. Its car park is small, 11 spaces in National Rail's listing, so check the venue's own arrival guide before you set off. Events listed under Totton have also met at Tonic Rooms at Sunnyfields Farm on Jacob's Gutter Lane.

For more nearby, see Southampton, Netley Marsh, Cadnam and Lyndhurst, or the whole of Southampton and the Solent, where our pages place Totton.