Dormansland
Dormansland is a large village and civil parish with a low population approximately one mile south of Lingfield in Surrey, England.
Dormansland is a large village and civil parish with a low population approximately one mile south of Lingfield in Surrey, England. It was founded in the 19th century and is bordered on the east by the county of Kent and on the south by West Sussex and East Sussex. The nearest town is the small town of East Grinstead, immediately across the West Sussex border. The village has an inn named "The Plough" that serves food, located in Plough Road, at the northern edge of the village. There are two further public houses in the village, the Old House at Home in West Street and The Royal Oak in the High Street, both of which also serve food.
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Worth seeing in and around Dormansland
4 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.
- 01Starborough Castle
Starborough Castle, known historically as Sterborough Castle, is a Neo-Gothic garden house of dressed sandstone near the eastern boundary of Surrey, built in 1754 by Sir James Burrow. It occupies the north-eastern portion of an artificial island south of the River Eden, roughly 3 km to the south-west of Edenbridge.
2.5 km · manor house in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Haxted Watermill
Haxted Watermill is a much-restored Grade II listed watermill in Surrey, England, close to the border with Kent, and is powered by the River Eden.
3.1 km · historical building in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Lingfield Wildlife Area
Lingfield Wildlife Area is a 6.3-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Lingfield in Surrey. It is owned by Tandridge District Council and managed by the Lingfield Wildlife Area Committee.
2.3 km · park · Wikipedia - 04Lingfield Cernes
Lingfield Cernes is a 10.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Lingfield in Surrey.
2.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dormansland
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 14 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 47 km · London Stansted (STN), 81 km
- Stations
- Dormans railway station, 1.4 km · Lingfield railway station, 1.5 km
- London → Dormansland40 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £4–6
- London, Essex → Dormansland40 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £4–6
- Luton, Luton → Dormansland85 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–14
- 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 Dormansland
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 Dormansland. 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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If you know how people move in Dormansland – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Dormansland
Dormansland is 39 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Lingfieldvillage and civil parish in Tandridge, Surrey, England, UK2 km
- Dormans Parkvillage in Surrey, England, UK2.3 km
- Marsh Greenhamlet in Kent, United Kingdom3.7 km