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Cuckmere Valley

Cuckmere Valley is a civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.

Cuckmere Valley
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The place

Cuckmere Valley is a civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. As its name suggests, the parish consists of a number of small settlements on the eastern side of the lower reaches of the River Cuckmere.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cuckmere Valley

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
    Long Man of Wilmington

    Hill figure on Windover Hill near Wilmington, Sussex, England, UK

    2.3 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St. Andrew, Alfriston

    Church in Alfriston, East Sussex, England, UK

    700 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary and St Peter's Church, Wilmington

    Church in Wilmington, East Sussex, England, UK

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Alfriston Clergy House

    Historic house in East Sussex, England, UK

    700 m · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lullington Church

    Church in Lullington, East Sussex, England, UK

    900 m · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Parish Church of Saint Peter

    Church in Folkington, East Sussex, England, UK

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Alfriston Market Cross

    Market cross in Alfriston, East Sussex, England, UK

    900 m · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dean's Place Hotel

    Country house hotel in Alfriston, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK

    700 m · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Alfriston Windmill

    Tower mill at Alfriston, Sussex, England

    700 m · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Litlington White Horse

    Hill figure in Seaford, United Kingdom

    1.8 km · 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 Cuckmere Valley

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 46 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 86 km · London Stansted (STN), 121 km
  • London → Cuckmere Valley
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £10–14
  • London, Essex → Cuckmere Valley
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £10–14
  • Luton, Luton → Cuckmere Valley
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £16–22
  • 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 Cuckmere Valley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundCanoe - Canoes can be hired from the Canoe Centre near to Car park, they cannot be landed in the meanders though
  • Go nextNearby Newhaven has a ferry service to Dieppe, from where you can explore France and the Continent.

From Wikivoyage: Cuckmere Haven, 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

    104 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    429 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    637 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    673 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cuckmere Valley

  • Alfristonvillage and civil parish in the Sussex district of Wealden, England1.1 km
  • Alcistonvillage and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England3.6 km
  • Berwickvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, England, UK3.4 km
  • Lullingtonhamlet in East Sussex, England, UK400 m
  • Wilmingtonvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.7 km
  • Litlingtonvillage in East Sussex, England, UK1.9 km