Bulverhythe
Bulverhythe, also known as West St Leonards and Bo Peep, is a suburb of Hastings, East Sussex, England with its Esplanade and 15 ft thick sea wall.

Bulverhythe, also known as West St Leonards and Bo Peep, is a suburb of Hastings, East Sussex, England with its Esplanade and 15 ft thick sea wall. Bulverhythe is translated as "Burghers' landing place". It used to be under a small headland called Gallows Head, which was washed away by flooding. The suburbs of Filsham, West Marina and Harley Shute are nearby.
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Worth seeing in and around Bulverhythe
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.
- 01De La Warr Pavilion
The De La Warr Pavilion is a grade I listed building, located on the seafront at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, on the south coast of England. The Modernist and International Style building was designed by the architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff and constructed in 1935.
3.9 km · arts centre and gallery in Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Hastings Pier
Hastings Pier is a public pleasure pier in Hastings, East Sussex, England. Built in 1872 and enjoying its prime in the 1930s, it became a popular music venue in the 1960s.
3.5 km · pier in Hastings, England · Wikipedia - 03St Leonard's Church
St Leonard's Church is an Anglican church in the St Leonards-on-Sea area of Hastings, a town and borough in the English county of East Sussex. The main church serving James Burton's high-class mid 19th-century new town of St Leonards-on-Sea was designed by Burton himself just before his death, and it survived for more than a century despite being damaged by the cliff into which it was built; but one night during World War II, the sea-facing building was obliterated by a direct hit from a damaged V-1 "doodlebug" which had crossed the English Channel.
2 km · grade II listed church in St Leonards-on-Sea, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bexhill-on-Sea
St Mary Magdalene's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England. It was founded in 1893 and built in 1907 in the Gothic Revival style.
3.3 km · church building in Rother, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs, St Leonards-on-Sea
The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs is the Roman Catholic church serving St Leonards-on-Sea, a town and seaside resort which is part of the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. The present church, which combines a plain, unadorned Gothic Revival exterior with a lavishly decorated interior featuring extensive early 20th-century paintings by Nathaniel Westlake, is the third building used for Roman Catholic worship in the seaside resort.
3 km · church in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Leonard's Baptist Church
St Leonard's Baptist Church is the Baptist place of worship serving St Leonards-on-Sea, a town and seaside resort which is part of the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. The elaborate building was designed by the architectural firm of Thomas Elworthy, responsible for many churches in late-Victorian era Sussex, and serves the residential hinterland of St Leonards-on-Sea—an area which grew rapidly after its early 19th-century founding by James Burton.
2.8 km · grade II listed church in St Leonards-on-Sea, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07White Rock Theatre
White Rock Theatre is a medium-scale receiving house venue owned by Hastings Borough Council situated on the seafront of Hastings, East Sussex, on the south coast of England. It currently presents a varied programme of touring shows including opera, ballet, musicals, the Hastings Musical Festival and children's shows.
3.5 km · theatre in Hastings, England, originally a concert hall, also used as a cinema · Wikipedia - 08Robertson Street United Reformed Church
Robertson Street Congregational Church is a former United Reformed church in the centre of Hastings, a seaside town and borough in East Sussex, England. Built in 1885 on the site of an earlier church which had been constructed in 1857, it was designed by Henry Ward, who was responsible for many of the key buildings in the town of Hastings, not least the Town Hall.
3.9 km · church building in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church in the Wood
Church in the Wood, officially known as St Leonard's Church and originally as St Rumbold's Church, is an Anglican church in the Hollington area of the town and borough of Hastings, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex. Although Hollington is now a large suburb, consisting mostly of postwar residential development, the church has stood in isolation in the middle of an ancient wood since it was founded in the 13th century—almost certainly as the successor to an 11th-century chapel.
2.9 km · grade II listed church in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Holy Trinity Church, Hastings
Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican church in the centre of Hastings, a town and borough in the English county of East Sussex. It was built during the 1850s—a period when Hastings was growing rapidly as a seaside resort—by prolific and eccentric architect Samuel Sanders Teulon, who was "chief among the rogue architects of the mid-Victorian Gothic Revival".
3.8 km · church in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bulverhythe
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 97 km · London Stansted (STN), 117 km
- Stations
- Hastings railway station, 3.8 km · Bexhill railway station, 3.4 km · St Leonards Warrior Square railway station, 2.8 km · West St Leonards railway station, 1.2 km · Sidley railway station, 3.4 km
- London → Bulverhythe86 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £10–13
- London, Essex → Bulverhythe86 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Bulverhythe132 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £16–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bulverhythe
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 Bulverhythe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Bulverhythe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Bulverhythe
- St Leonardstown in Hastings, East Sussex, England2.2 km
- Sidleyvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.9 km
- Hollingtonsuburb and local government ward in the northwest of Hastings, UK3.3 km
- Silverhillvillage in East Sussex, England3 km