Bolney
Bolney is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England.
Bolney is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. It lies 36 miles (58 km) south of London, 11 miles (18 km) north of Brighton, and 27 miles (43 km) east northeast of the county town of Chichester, near the junction of the A23 road with the A272 road. The parish has a land area of 1,479.41 hectares. In the 2001 census there were 1209 people living in 455 households of whom 576 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population had increased to 1,366. Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southeast and Haywards Heath to the east.
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Worth seeing in and around Bolney
2 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.
- 01St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney
St Mary Magdalene's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Bolney in Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. The parish church, which is dedicated to Jesus' companion Mary Magdalene, serves a large rural parish centred on a village straddling the ancient London–Brighton road and apparently dates from about 1100, and an older origin has been suggested.
0 m · church in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02The 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.
2.9 km · church in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bolney
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 18 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 56 km · London Luton (LTN), 99 km
- London → Bolney57 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Bolney99 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £12–16
- London, Essex → Bolney57 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £6–8
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bolney
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 Bolney. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThere are many possible day trips from Horsham, here are some suggestions: Leith Hill and the Surrey Hills, 20 minutes north-northwest via the A24 and B2126, one of the most beautiful stretches of the North Downs, with the highest point in south east England.
From Wikivoyage: Horsham (West Sussex), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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Next door to Bolney
Bolney is 58 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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