Bramber
Bramber is a former manor, village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

Bramber is a former manor, village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It has a ruined medieval castle which was the caput of a large feudal barony. Bramber is located on the northern edge of the South Downs and on the west side of the River Adur. Nearby are the communities of Steyning to the west and Upper Beeding to the east, and the other side of the river. The closest historical connection, however, is with the village of Botolphs to the south.
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Worth seeing in and around Bramber
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.
- 01Bramber Castle
Bramber Castle is the ruins of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, formerly the caput of the large feudal barony of Bramber long held by the Braose family. It is situated in the village of Bramber, West Sussex, near the town of Steyning, overlooking the River Adur.
200 m · Norman castle in Bamber, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Jarvis Hall, Steyning
Jarvis Hall is a former Nonconformist chapel in the village of Steyning, in the Horsham district of the English county of West Sussex. Since its construction in 1835, the Classical-style building has been used by four different Nonconformist Christian denominations: the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, Wesleyan Methodists, the Salvation Army and Plymouth Brethren.
900 m · church in Steyning, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Coombes Church
Coombes Church is a Church of England parish church in the rural hamlet of Coombes in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. It has served the rural parish, northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea and next to the River Adur, since the 11th century.
2.5 km · church in Adur, UK · Wikipedia - 04The Parish Church of St Nicholas
St Nicholas' Church, Bramber is a Church of England parish church in the village of Bramber, West Sussex. Dating back to approximately 1073, the fabric of the church is still mainly Norman though with some rebuilding and restoration work from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
100 m · church in Bramber, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Chantry House
The Chantry House is a house at 34 Church Street in Steyning, West Sussex, England. It is a Grade II* listed building, built in the 18th century.
1.2 km · house in Steyning, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 0638, High Street
The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in The High Street in Steyning, West Sussex, England. The building, which was used as a courthouse and a public events venue, is a Grade II listed building.
1.2 km · building in Steyning, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Horton Clay Pit
Horton Clay Pit is a 0.4-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Small Dole in West Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.1 km · geological site in West Sussex · Wikipedia - 08Steyning Methodist Church
Steyning Methodist Church is a Methodist place of worship serving Steyning and surrounding villages in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. Built for a Wesleyan Methodist congregation who had outgrown an earlier chapel nearby, the Gothic Revival building opened in 1878 and has since been extended.
1 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Wiston House
Wiston House is a 16th-century Grade I listed building set in the South Downs National Park on the south coast of England, surrounded by over 6,000 acres of parkland in Wiston, West Sussex. It is the home of Wilton Park, an executive agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
3.7 km · house in Wiston, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10St Botolph's Church, Botolphs
The Grade I listed Saxon church of St Botolph's at Botolphs, West Sussex, England, is situated in the valley of the River Adur and is now part of the Church of England parish of Beeding and Bramber with Botolphs. An earlier dedication to St Peter de Vetere Ponte is now lost, like the bridge over the Adur from which it took this ancient name.
1.5 km · church in Botolphs, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bramber
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 31 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 66 km · London Luton (LTN), 110 km
- Stations
- Steyning railway station, 900 m · Bramber railway station, 200 m
- London → Bramber71 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £8–10
- Luton, Luton → Bramber111 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–17
- London, Essex → Bramber71 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bramber
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 Bramber. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries to Newhaven and Portsmouth, and the London airports (especially Gatwick) are handy for overseas visitors.
- Go nextOr you could head south to Newhaven and catch a ferry to Dieppe in France.
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Next door to Bramber
- Steyningtown and civil parish in West Sussex in England, United Kingdom1.1 km
- Coombesvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.2 km
- Upper Beedingvillage in West Sussex, England, UK600 m
- Small Dolevillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.6 km
- Botolphsvillage in West Sussex, England, UK1.4 km