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Coolham

Coolham is a small village in the civil parish of Shipley and the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

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The place

Coolham is a small village in the civil parish of Shipley and the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is at the crossroads of the A272 and B2139 roads 2.8 miles (4.6 km) south-east of Billingshurst.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coolham

4 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
    Newbuildings Place

    Newbuildings Place is a 17th-century Artisan Mannerist house near Shipley, West Sussex. The house was a home of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, who was buried in the grounds of the house.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed building in Horsham District, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Shipley

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican church in the village of Shipley, in West Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed church in Shipley, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Coneyhurst Cutting

    Coneyhurst Cutting is a 0.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Billingshurst in West Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Blue Idol Meeting House And Guest House

    The Blue Idol Quaker Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at Oldhouse Lane, Coolham, in the parish of Thakeham, near Horsham, West Sussex, England. The core of the building is a late sixteenth-century timber-framed farmhouse adapted for Quaker worship in the 1690s.

    1.3 km · Quaker meeting house in Thakeham, Horsham, 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.

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Getting to Coolham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 23 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 53 km · London Luton (LTN), 98 km
Stations
Billingshurst railway station, 4 km
  • London → Coolham
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Coolham
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £12–16
  • London, Essex → Coolham
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–9
  • 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 Coolham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThere are many possible day trips from Horsham, here are some suggestions: Leith Hill and the Surrey Hills, 20 minutes north-northwest via the A24 and B2126, one of the most beautiful stretches of the North Downs, with the highest point in south east England.

From Wikivoyage: Horsham (West Sussex), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    72 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    299 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    599 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    635 km

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

Around it

Next door to Coolham

  • Shipleyvillage and civil parish in Horsham District, West Sussex, England, UK2.6 km
  • Coneyhurstvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2 km
  • Dragon's Greenhamlet in West Sussex, England, UK2.3 km
  • Broadford Bridgehuman settlement in Sussex, England, UK2.6 km
  • Brooks Greenhamlet in West Sussex, England, UK2.4 km