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Coombes

Coombes is a small village and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England.

Coombes
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The place

Coombes is a small village and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. The village is in the Adur Valley 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coombes

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.

  1. 01
    Bramber Castle

    Bramber Castle is the ruins of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, formerly the caput of the large feudal barony of Bramber long held by the Braose family. It is situated in the village of Bramber, West Sussex, near the town of Steyning, overlooking the River Adur.

    2.5 km · Norman castle in Bamber, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lancing Ring

    Lancing Ring is a 29.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Lancing in West Sussex. It is owned and managed by Adur District Council.

    2.1 km · hill in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St James the Less Church, Lancing

    St James the Less Church is the Anglican parish church of Lancing with Coombes, an ancient village which has been absorbed into the modern town of Lancing in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded in the 12th century in the most northerly of the three settlements in Lancing parish, which has Saxon origins.

    2.8 km · church in Adur, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea

    St Mary de Haura Church is an Anglican church in the ancient "New Shoreham" area of Shoreham-by-Sea in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded at the end of the 11th century as a large cruciform church which, due to its original scale, has been described as a collegiate church—a reflection of the port of Shoreham's importance at the time.

    4 km · church in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Jarvis Hall, Steyning

    Jarvis Hall is a former Nonconformist chapel in the village of Steyning, in the Horsham district of the English county of West Sussex. Since its construction in 1835, the Classical-style building has been used by four different Nonconformist Christian denominations: the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, Wesleyan Methodists, the Salvation Army and Plymouth Brethren.

    3.1 km · church in Steyning, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Coombes Church

    Coombes Church is a Church of England parish church in the rural hamlet of Coombes in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. It has served the rural parish, northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea and next to the River Adur, since the 11th century.

    200 m · church in Adur, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Nicolas' Church, Shoreham-by-Sea

    St Nicolas Church is an Anglican church in Old Shoreham, an ancient inland settlement that is now part of the town of Shoreham-by-Sea in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded on a riverside site by Anglo-Saxons at the start of the 10th century, possibly on the site of a 5th-century predecessor.

    2.8 km · church in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Shoreham Town Hall

    Shoreham Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Shoreham-by-Sea Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    4 km · town hall in Adur, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Marlipins Museum

    Marlipins Museum, is a 12th to early-13th-century Grade II* listed building on the High Street in Shoreham-by-Sea, a town in Adur district in West Sussex, England. It is distinguished by the chequerboard pattern of limestone and flint on its front façade.

    4 km · museum in West Sussex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Chantry House

    The Chantry House is a house at 34 Church Street in Steyning, West Sussex, England. It is a Grade II* listed building, built in the 18th century.

    3.4 km · house in Steyning, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Coombes

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 33 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 69 km · London Luton (LTN), 113 km
Stations
Brighton City Airport, 3 km · Shoreham-by-Sea railway station, 4 km · Steyning railway station, 3.2 km · Bramber railway station, 2.2 km
  • London → Coombes
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £9–11
  • Luton, Luton → Coombes
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–18
  • London, Essex → Coombes
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £9–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Coombes

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.

From Wikivoyage: Brighton, 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

    73 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    450 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    615 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    651 km

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

Around it

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  • Upper Beedingvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.3 km
  • Botolphsvillage in West Sussex, England, UK1 km