Copthorne
Copthorne is a village in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England.
Copthorne is a village in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. It lies close to Gatwick Airport, 25.5 miles (41 km) south of London, 21.5 miles (35 km) north of Brighton, and 36 miles (58 km) northeast of the county town of Chichester. Nearby towns include Crawley to the southwest and East Grinstead to the east. It is the most northerly ecclesiastical parish in the Diocese of Chichester in the Church of England, and together with Crawley Down makes up the civil parish of Worth.
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Worth seeing in and around Copthorne
5 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.
- 01Tulleys Farm
Tulleys Farm is a family farm, located in West Sussex. The farm was founded in 1937 by Bernard Beare.
3.9 km · farm in Turners Hill, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Grattons Park
Grattons Park is a 7.7-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Crawley in West Sussex, England. It is owned by Crawley Borough Council and managed by the council and the Gatwick Greenspace Partnership.
3.2 km · park · Wikipedia - 03St Nicholas' Church, Worth
St Nicholas Church is a Church of England parish church in Worth, a village in Crawley, England, which at one time had the largest geographical parish in England.
3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Worth, Crawley, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Worth Park Gardens
Worth Park is in Pound Hill, Crawley. The park covers eight hectares and includes formal gardens, and a lake area.
2.6 km · formal garden, parkland and lake area in Crawley, UK · Wikipedia - 05Hedgecourt
Hedgecourt is a 33.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Felbridge in Surrey. An area of 5 ha is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
3.9 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey · Wikipedia
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Getting to Copthorne
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 5 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 44 km · London Luton (LTN), 84 km
- Stations
- Gatwick Airport railway station, 3.6 km · Three Bridges railway station, 3.9 km · Rowfant railway station, 2.7 km
- London → Copthorne41 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £4.5–6
- Luton, Luton → Copthorne85 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £11–14
- London, Essex → Copthorne41 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £4.5–6
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Copthorne
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 Copthorne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Copthorne
Copthorne is 41 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Burstowvillage in Tandridge, Surrey, England, UK3.3 km
- Worthvillage, now part of the Borough of Crawley, in West Sussex, England3.5 km
- Crawley Downvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.4 km
- Three Bridgessuburb in Crawley, West Sussex, England, UK3.9 km
- Tinsley Greensuburb in Crawley, West Sussex, England, UK2.6 km
- Smallfieldsettlement in Burstow, Tandridge, Surrey, England3.6 km