South Gorley is a hamlet in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England.

Its nearest town is Ringwood, which lies approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of the hamlet.

The hamlet sits on the western boundary of the New Forest National Park, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of North Gorley.

The old village school of Ibsley, built in 1874 by the Earl of Normanton, was at South Gorley.

[3] In 1902 the artist Heywood Sumner acquired a plot land at Cuckoo Hill near South Gorley.