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Birdham

Birdham is a village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.

Birdham
Birdham · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Birdham is a village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the Manhood Peninsula, c. 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of the city of Chichester. The parish church is dedicated to St Benjamin, although the dedication was to St. Ethan until c. 1900.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Birdham

4 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
    St James' Church, Birdham

    The parish church of St James, Birdham is situated on the Manhood Peninsula in Sussex. The area is a suburban extension of the city of Chichester, popular as a place to live and visit from its nearness to the city, Chichester Harbour and marina.

    0 m · church in Chichester, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary Our Lady Sidlesham

    St Mary Our Lady is the parish church of Sidlesham in West Sussex, England. The family friendly church is down a short lane off the Chichester to Selsey road, by some thatched cottages.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed church in Sidlesham, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Nicholas' Church, West Itchenor

    St. Nicholas Church is the Anglican parish church of West Itchenor, a village in the Chichester district of West Sussex, United Kingdom.

    2.4 km · church in Chichester, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Chandler's House

    The Old Town Hall is a historic building on Shore Road in Bosham, a town in West Sussex, in England. The structure, which has been converted into a private house, is a Grade II listed building.

    4 km · house in Bosham, Chichester, West 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 Birdham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 79 km · London Luton (LTN), 124 km
  • London → Birdham
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Birdham
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £15–21
  • London, Essex → Birdham
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Birdham

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 Birdham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAccess to West Itchenor is also possible from a small pedestrian and cycle ferry from Old Bosham.
  • Go nextChichester Selsey West Itchenor for foot ferry to Bosham and harbour boat trips Bognor Regis

From Wikivoyage: Bracklesham Bay, 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

    35 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    272 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    483 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    604 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    640 km

If you know how people move in Birdham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Birdham

  • Apuldramvillage in West Sussex, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Earnleyvillage in Chichester District, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Sidleshamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
  • West Itchenorvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.6 km
  • Donningtonvillage and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex in England, UK3.5 km
  • Bosham Hoevillage in West Sussex, England, UK1.8 km