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Chailey

Chailey is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.

Chailey
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The place

Chailey is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. It is located 7 miles north of Lewes, on the A272 road from Winchester to Canterbury. The Prime Meridian passes just to the east of Chailey.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chailey

2 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
    Scaynes Hill SSSI

    Scaynes Hill is a 0.04-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Newick in East Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    3.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Zion Chapel, Newick

    Zion Chapel is a former Strict Baptist place of worship in the village of Newick in Lewes District, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex. The tiny building was opened for worship in 1834 in a part of Sussex which was a hotbed of Protestant Nonconformism, and remained as one of three places of worship in the small Wealden village until 2001, when it was sold for conversion to houses.

    2.1 km · grade II listed church in Newick, Lewes, East 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.

Go there

Getting to Chailey

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 24 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · London Stansted (STN), 104 km
Stations
Newick and Chailey railway station, 1.2 km
  • London → Chailey
    61 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £6–9
  • London, Essex → Chailey
    61 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £6–9
  • Luton, Luton → Chailey
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chailey

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 Chailey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundScale 1:25,000 (4 cm:1 km, 2½ in:1 mi) would be fine, costing usually under £8.00 Cycling is very limited on Ashdown Forest land to the few public bridleways, although several groups are petitioning for more open access for off-road cycling however it is fully allowed on roads.
  • Go nextEastbourne Petersfield South Downs Way, a popular walking path.

From Wikivoyage: Ashdown Forest, 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

    96 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    327 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    427 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    616 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    652 km

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

Around it

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