Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill is a town and civil parish in West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park, 39 mi (63 km) south of London, 10 mi (16 km) north of Brighton and Hove, and 29 mi (47 km) northeast of the county town, Chichester.
Burgess Hill is a town and civil parish in West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park, 39 mi (63 km) south of London, 10 mi (16 km) north of Brighton and Hove, and 29 mi (47 km) northeast of the county town, Chichester. It had an area of 3.7 sq mi (9.6 km2) and a population of 30,635 at the 2011 Census, making it the fourth most populous parish in the county and the most populous in the Mid Sussex District. Other nearby towns include Haywards Heath to the northeast and Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, to the southeast.
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Worth seeing in and around Burgess Hill
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.
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- 04Bethel Strict Baptist Chapel, Wivelsfield
Grade II listed church in Wivelsfield, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK
2.4 km · Wikipedia - 05
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- 07St John the Evangelist's Church, Burgess Hill
Church in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England, UK
600 m · Wikipedia - 08
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- 10Providence Strict Baptist Chapel, Burgess Hill
Grade II listed church in Burgess Hill, Mid Sussex, West Sussex, England, UK
900 m · 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.
Getting to Burgess Hill
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 22 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 62 km · London Luton (LTN), 104 km
- Stations
- Haywards Heath railway station, 5.9 km · Hassocks railway station, 3.5 km · Burgess Hill railway station, 100 m · Wivelsfield railway station, 1.2 km · Plumpton railway station, 5.4 km
- London → Burgess Hill61 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Burgess Hill104 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £13–17
- London, Essex → Burgess Hill61 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £7–9
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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 Burgess Hill
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 Burgess Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.
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