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Albourne

Albourne is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England.

Albourne
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The place

Albourne is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. It lies just off the A23 road three miles (4.8 km) east of Henfield. The parish has a land area of 772.9 hectares (1909 acres). In the 2001 census 600 people lived in 234 households, of whom 321 were economically active. The population at the 2011 Census was 644. The name comes from an alder-lined stream, which is likely to have been the Cutler's Brook.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Albourne

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Danny House

    Danny House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan red brick mansion near Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex, England. It lies at the northern foot of Wolstonbury Hill and may be regarded as one of the finest stately houses in Sussex, with 56 bedrooms and 28 apartments.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Parish Church of St Peter, Twineham

    St Peter's Church is the Church of England parish church of Twineham, a village in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. The church, with St Barthomew's in Albourne and Christ Church in Sayers Common, serves the modern ecclesiastical parish of Albourne, Sayers Common and Twineham.

    3.6 km · church in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wolstonbury Hill

    Wolstonbury Hill is a 58.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of in West Sussex, within South Downs National Park. It is owned by the National Trust and part of it is a Scheduled Monument.

    3.2 km · hill and protected area in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Newtimber Place

    Newtimber Place is a Grade I listed building in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. The house sits on a D-shaped island in a moat.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Mansion House

    Mansion House is a prominent and historically significant Grade II* listed Georgian village property in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England. The substantial family home is situated in the heart of Hurstpierpoint with the High Street at the front and South Downs to the rear.

    1.8 km · house in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Parish Church of St John Evangelist

    St John the Evangelist Church is an Anglican church in Newtimber, West Sussex.

    3.3 km · church in Newtimber, Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Albourne

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 24 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 62 km · London Luton (LTN), 105 km
  • London → Albourne
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £6–9
  • Luton, Luton → Albourne
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £13–17
  • London, Essex → Albourne
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £6–9
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Albourne

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Albourne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.

From Wikivoyage: Brighton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    313 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    439 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    611 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    647 km

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