Brightling
Brightling is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England.
Brightling is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. It is located on the Weald eight miles (13 km) north-west of Battle and four miles (6.4 km) west of Robertsbridge.
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Worth seeing in and around Brightling
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.
- 01Bateman's
17th-century house museum in Burwash, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
3.2 km · Wikipedia - 02The Parish Church of St Bartholomew
Church building in Burwash, Rother, East Sussex, England, UK
3.9 km · Wikipedia - 03
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.
Getting to Brightling
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 46 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 82 km · London Stansted (STN), 103 km
- London → Brightling71 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Brightling71 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Brightling116 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Brightling
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 Brightling. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAfter a checkered history ferries to Newhaven run to Dieppe (run by DFDS) throughout the year, taking 5 and 4 hours.
- Get inAlternatively, tickets can be bought at the two ports, the ferry port in Newhaven is on the East Quay, while in Dieppe it is the east of the main harbour, both are well signposted The ferries to Dieppe are some of the newest sailing in the English Channel, and due to the former troubled history of the route (and massive subsidies) this can be cheaper than Dover to Calais, also the view from the ferries of the Seven Sisters and Cuckmere Haven is beautiful.
- Go nextRunning from Eastbourne in the east all the way to Petersfield in the West, spanning three counties the South Downs Way is a popular walking path with numerous books and guides out there.
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If you know how people move in Brightling – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Brightling
- Dallingtonvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.3 km
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- Oxley's Greenhamlet in Brightling, Rother, East Sussex, England900 m