Ditchling

Worth seeing in and around Ditchling

9 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
   Ditchling Beacon

   Ditchling Beacon is the highest point in East Sussex, England, with an elevation of 248 m. It is south of Ditchling and to the north-east of Brighton.

   2.2 km · hill in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Ditchling Common

   Ditchling Common is a 66.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Wivelsfield in East Sussex. It is a country park.

   3.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer

   St Cosmas and St Damian Church is an Anglican church in the village of Keymer, in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. Rebuilt in 1866 in a style similar to the Saxon building it replaced, it is the parish church of Keymer and now lies within a combined parish serving three villages in Mid Sussex.

   1.5 km · church in Keymer, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton

   St John the Baptist's Church is the Church of England parish church of the village of Clayton in Mid Sussex District, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. The small and simple Anglo-Saxon building is distinguished by its "remarkable" and extensive set of wall paintings, dating from the early 12th century and rediscovered more than 700 years later.

   3.2 km · church in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft

   Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is located in Ditchling, East Sussex, England. It specialises in showcasing the artists and craftspeople who made Ditchling a creative hub in the 20th century, such as Eric Gill, the sculptor, printmaker and typeface designer, Edward Johnston, designer of the London Underground font, and printer Hilary Pepler.

   500 m · local museum in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Ditchling Unitarian Chapel

   Ditchling Unitarian Chapel is a Unitarian chapel in Ditchling, a village in the English county of East Sussex. A congregation of General Baptists began to meet in the 17th century in the village, which was a local centre for Protestant Nonconformist worship, and by the time the present simple Vernacular-style chapel was constructed in 1740 a large proportion of the population held Baptist beliefs.

   300 m · grade II listed church in Ditchling, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Plumpton College

   Plumpton College is a Further and Higher education college in Plumpton, East Sussex, England, with courses in a variety of land based and related subjects. The college provides a range of full-time and part-time land-based courses, FE courses to Foundation Degree and BSc courses.

   3.3 km · college in East Sussex, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Plumpton Place

   Plumpton Place is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England.

   3.5 km · country house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Wings Place

   Wings Place, formerly Ditchling Garden Manor, also known as Anne of Cleves House, is a Grade I country house in Ditchling, East Sussex, England. It is a Tudor house, said to be one of the best examples in the country.

   500 m · country house in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Ditchling Common Nature Reserves

   Ditchling Common is of biological interest because of the variety of heath grassland habitats, created by the different drainage conditions throughout the common.

2. 02
   Clayton to Offham Escarpment

   This Site of Special Scientific Interest stretches from Hassocks in the west, passing through many parishes including Ditchling, to Lewes in the East.

3. 03
   Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft

   Lodge Hill Lane,BN6 8TS (3 miles SSE of Burgess Hill),.

From Wikivoyage: Ditchling, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

1. 01
   Ditchling Beacon

   BN6 8XG.

From Wikivoyage: Ditchling, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Ditchling

Airports

London Gatwick (LGW), 26 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 66 km · London Luton (LTN), 108 km

Stations

Hassocks railway station, 2.6 km · Burgess Hill railway station, 3.9 km · Plumpton railway station, 3.6 km

• London → Ditchling

  65 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–10
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• Luton, Luton → Ditchling

  109 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £14–18
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• London, Essex → Ditchling

  65 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–10
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