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Bosham

Bosham is a coastal village, ecclesiastical parish and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex, England, centred about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Chichester with its clustered developed part west of this.

Bosham
Bosham · Michael Coppins
The place

Bosham is a coastal village, ecclesiastical parish and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex, England, centred about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Chichester with its clustered developed part west of this.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bosham

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
    Fishbourne Roman Palace

    Fishbourne Roman Palace or Fishbourne Villa is in the village of Fishbourne, near Chichester in West Sussex. The palace is the largest known Roman residence north of the Alps, and has an unusually early date of 75 AD, around thirty years after the Roman conquest of Britain.

    3.6 km · Roman palace and museum near Chichester in Sussex, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, Bosham

    Holy Trinity Church is a Grade I listed Anglican church, a parish church in Bosham, West Sussex. There was a church on this site in Saxon times, and the oldest parts of the building date from that period.

    0 m · church in Chichester, 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.

    3.3 km · church in Chichester, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Bosham Sailing Club

    Bosham Sailing Club is the oldest sailing club in Chichester Harbour and was founded in 1907 It is located in the historic village of Bosham in West Sussex. Its clubhouse is the Old Mill on Bosham Quay.

    100 m · building in Bosham, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    200 m · house in Bosham, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Old Rectory

    Chidham and Hambrook is a civil parish in the Chichester district in West Sussex, England located approximately five miles west of Chichester, south of the A27 road, near Bosham. In 2011 the parish had a population of 1356.

    1.6 km · house in Chidham, 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 Bosham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 59 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 77 km · London Luton (LTN), 121 km
Stations
Bosham railway station, 1.8 km · Fishbourne railway station, 3.3 km · Nutbourne railway station, 2.5 km
  • London → Bosham
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £11–15
  • Luton, Luton → Bosham
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–19
  • London, Essex → Bosham
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bosham

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 Bosham. 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

    269 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    483 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    600 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    636 km

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

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