Dial Post
Dial Post is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

Dial Post is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies in the civil parish of West Grinstead, whose largest settlement, Partridge Green, is 2 miles (3.2 km) to the east. The village has a population of around 100, based on the average headcount per inhabited dwelling; in 2001 the population of the civil parish as a whole was 2,934. The village lies on the edge of the Knepp Wildland, a pioneering rewilding project.
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Worth seeing in and around Dial Post
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.
- 01Knepp Castle
The medieval Knepp Castle is to the west of the village of West Grinstead, in the parish of Shipley, West Sussex, England near the River Adur and the A24. The castle was probably founded by the Braose family in the 12th century.
1.6 km · castle ruin and scheduled monument in Shipley, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 · Wikipedia - 02The Parish Church of St James, Ashurst
St James's Church is a Church of England parish church in Ashurst, West Sussex. The church is a grade I listed building and it dates from the early 12th century.
3.8 km · church in Ashurst, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Shrine 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.
2.7 km · Roman Catholic diocesan shrine and parish church in West Grinstead, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Baybridge Canal
The Baybridge Canal was a short canal built entirely within the parish of West Grinstead in the English county of Sussex. It opened in 1826, and closed in 1875.
2.3 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia - 05Parish Church of St George
St George's Church is an Anglican church in West Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester, occupying a rural position in the Sussex Weald by the River Adur.
1.9 km · church in West Grinstead, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06The 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.
2.5 km · Grade I listed church in Shipley, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St 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.
3.4 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dial Post
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 24 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km · London Luton (LTN), 101 km
- Stations
- Partridge Green railway station, 3.6 km
- London → Dial Post63 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Dial Post102 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £12–15
- London, Essex → Dial Post63 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £7–9
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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 Dial Post. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries to Newhaven and Portsmouth, and the London airports (especially Gatwick) are handy for overseas visitors.
- Go nextOr you could head south to Newhaven and catch a ferry to Dieppe in France.
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- West Grinsteadvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2 km
- Partridge Greenvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.4 km
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