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Blackdown, West Sussex

Blackdown, or Black Down, is the highest point in Sussex, located in the South Downs National Park in England, with a summit elevation 279.7 metres (918 ft).

Blackdown, West Sussex
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The place

Blackdown, or Black Down, is the highest point in Sussex, located in the South Downs National Park in England, with a summit elevation 279.7 metres (918 ft). It is one of the highest points in the south east of England, exceeded by Walbury Hill, Leith Hill and Pilot Hill. Blackdown is protected as part of the South Downs National Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Blackdown, West Sussex

3 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
    Blackdown

    Blackdown, or Black Down, is the highest point in Sussex, located in the South Downs National Park in England, with a summit elevation 279.7 metres. It is one of the highest points in the south east of England, exceeded by Walbury Hill, Leith Hill and Pilot Hill.

    100 m · hill in West Sussex, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Haslemere Educational Museum

    Haslemere Educational Museum was founded in 1888 by the eminent surgeon Sir Jonathan Hutchinson to display his growing collection of natural history specimens. After two moves it found in 1926 a permanent home in Haslemere High Street, in the town of Haslemere, Surrey, England.

    3.8 km · geology, natural and human history museum, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Town Hall

    Haslemere Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Haslemere, Surrey, England. The structure, which serves as the meeting place of Haslemere Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.5 km · town hall in Haslemere, Waverley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Blackdown, West Sussex

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 37 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 49 km · London Luton (LTN), 93 km
Stations
Haslemere railway station, 3.9 km
  • London → Blackdown, West Sussex
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Blackdown, West Sussex
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–14
  • London, Essex → Blackdown, West Sussex
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £7–9
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Blackdown, West Sussex

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 Blackdown, West Sussex. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    60 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    278 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    458 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    583 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    619 km

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

Around it

Next door to Blackdown, West Sussex

Blackdown, West Sussex is 48 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.