Cowfold
Cowfold is a village and civil parish between Billingshurst and Haywards Heath in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.
Cowfold is a village and civil parish between Billingshurst and Haywards Heath in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The village is at the intersection of the A272 and A281 roads. The parish has a land area of 1,926 hectares. In the 2001 census 1,864 people lived in 729 households, of whom 987 were economically active. The population at the 2011 Census had risen to 1,904.
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Worth seeing in and around Cowfold
7 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.
- 01St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster
St Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, is the only post-Reformation Carthusian monastery in the United Kingdom. It is located in the parish of Cowfold, West Sussex, England.
2 km · monastery in Cowfold, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Shrine Church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Francis
The Church of Our Lady of Consolation and Saint Francis is a Roman Catholic parish church and shrine in West Grinstead, in West Sussex. It was built from 1875 to 1876, with additions made to the church in 1896 and 1964.
3.9 km · Roman Catholic diocesan shrine and parish church in West Grinstead, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03The Parish Church of St Giles, Shermanbury
St Giles' Church is a Church of England parish church in the small village of Shermanbury, West Sussex. Placed on the same site as a church recorded in Domesday Book, the present church was largely built in the 13th century but was heavily restored and partially rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries.
3.7 km · church in Shermanbury, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Leonardslee
Leonardslee is an English country house and English landscape garden and woodland garden in Lower Beeding, near Horsham, West Sussex, England. The Grade I listed garden is particularly significant for its spring displays of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias, magnolias and bluebells, with the flowering season reaching its peak in May.
3.5 km · park in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05South Lodge Hotel
The South Lodge Hotel is a 19th-century five star country house hotel set near Horsham, West Sussex in the south of England. The hotel has also been used in a number of feature films including the 2014 film A Dark Reflection.
2.9 km · country house hotel in Horsham, West Sussex · Wikipedia - 06St Michael and All Angels Church, Partridge Green
St Michael and All Angels Church is a late nineteenth-century church in the settlement of Partridge Green in the parish of West Grinstead in West Sussex. It was built to cater for the then growing population of the village.
4 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Peter, Cowfold
St Peter's Church, Cowfold is a Church of England parish church in the village of Cowfold, West Sussex. First recorded in 1232 as a chapelry of St Peter's, Henfield, it still retains some features of the Early English original building but is mainly Perpendicular in style and, apart from some 19th-century arches, entirely medieval.
100 m · Grade I listed church in Cowfold, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cowfold
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 19 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 55 km · London Luton (LTN), 99 km
- Stations
- West Grinstead railway station, 2.9 km
- London → Cowfold59 km · quickest by road, 2h · £6–9
- Luton, Luton → Cowfold100 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £13–17
- London, Essex → Cowfold59 km · quickest by road, 2h · £6–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cowfold
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 Cowfold. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Cowfold is 59 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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