Ashurst Wood
Ashurst Wood is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.
Ashurst Wood is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is 1 mile (2 km) to the southeast of East Grinstead, just off the A22 arterial road. In 2001, the population was 1,771, increasing to 1,833 at the 2011 Census. Ashurst Wood is within the High Weald Area of Natural Beauty and has a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) inside its boundaries.
The village has a history of agriculture and farming, and contains a church, village hall, primary school, two public houses, a general shop, post office and several small business premises. There is an independent school on the boundary of the village, called Brambletye School, and a former one, Stoke Brunswick School, which closed in 2009. Bus routes run through the village with destinations of East Grinstead, Crawley, Haywards Heath, Tunbridge Wells and Brighton.
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Worth seeing in and around Ashurst Wood
10 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.
- 01Saint Hill Manor
Saint Hill Manor is a Grade II listed country house at Saint Hill Green, near East Grinstead in West Sussex, England. It was constructed in 1792 and had several notable owners before being purchased by L. Ron Hubbard and becoming the British headquarters of Church of Scientology.
3.8 km · country house in Saint Hill Green, East Grinstead, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Our Lady and St Peter's Church, East Grinstead
Our Lady and St Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in East Grinstead. It was built from 1897 to 1898 and designed by Frederick Walters.
3.5 km · church building in East Grinstead, Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Weir Wood Reservoir
Weir Wood Reservoir is a 153.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Forest Row in East Sussex. It is in High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and an area of 32.6 hectares is a Local Nature Reserve which is owned by Southern Water and managed by East Sussex County Council and Southern Water.
2.9 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Sackville College
Sackville College is a Jacobean almshouse in the town of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It was founded in 1609 with money left by Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset.
2.6 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Hammerwood Park
Hammerwood Park is a country house in Hammerwood, 2.9 miles east of East Grinstead and 8.8 miles west of Tunbridge Wells, in East Sussex, England. One of the first Greek Revival houses in England, it is a Grade I listed building.
3.2 km · country house near East Grinstead, Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Swithun's Church
St Swithun's is a Church of England church in East Grinstead, West Sussex, England, which is a Grade II* listed building. The site had a church since the 11th century.
2.7 km · church in East Grinstead, Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07East Grinstead Museum
East Grinstead Museum is located at Cantelupe Road in East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It was established in 1995 in a purpose-built museum constructed with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and local donations.
2.8 km · Local history museum in East Grinstead, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Imberhorne Viaduct
Imberhorne Viaduct is a Grade II listed railway viaduct located in East Grinstead, West Sussex, South-East England. Closed in 1958, the structure was brought back into use as part of the preserved Bluebell Railway heritage line in 2013, allowing trains to continue to East Grinstead railway station.
3.8 km · bridge in West Sussex, South-East England · Wikipedia - 09Standen
Standen is an Arts and Crafts house located to the south of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. The house and its surrounding gardens belong to the National Trust and are open to the public.
3.2 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10West Street Baptist Church
West Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in East Grinstead, a town in the district of Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Founded in 1810 as a chapel linked to the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, it was the first Nonconformist place of worship in East Grinstead; the town's subsequent development made it a local centre of both Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religions.
2.9 km · church in East Grinstead, Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ashurst Wood
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 15 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 52 km · London Stansted (STN), 87 km
- Stations
- East Grinstead railway station, 3.6 km · Forest Row railway station, 1.6 km
- London → Ashurst Wood45 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £4.5–6
- London, Essex → Ashurst Wood45 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £4.5–6
- Luton, Luton → Ashurst Wood91 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ashurst Wood
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 Ashurst Wood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundScale 1:25,000 (4 cm:1 km, 2½ in:1 mi) would be fine, costing usually under £8.00 Cycling is very limited on Ashdown Forest land to the few public bridleways, although several groups are petitioning for more open access for off-road cycling however it is fully allowed on roads.
- Go nextEastbourne Petersfield South Downs Way, a popular walking path.
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Next door to Ashurst Wood
Ashurst Wood is 45 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- East Grinsteadtown and civil parish in West Sussex, England, UK3.5 km
- Forest Rowvillage in East Sussex, England, UK1.5 km
- Saint Hill Greenvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.7 km
- Hammerwoodhamlet in the civil parish of Forest Row in East Sussex, England3.2 km