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East Lavington

East Lavington, formerly Woolavington, is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England.

East Lavington
East Lavington · Wikimedia Commons
The place

East Lavington, formerly Woolavington, is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England. It is located six kilometres (4 miles) south of Petworth, west of the A285 road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around East Lavington

3 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
    Burton Park

    Burton Park is a 19th-century country house in the civil parish of Duncton in West Sussex, and is situated 1/2 a mile to the east of the village of Duncton, within its own estate. It is a Grade I listed building, now converted into multiple occupation.

    2.5 km · country house in Duncton, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Burton Park SSSI

    Burton Park SSSI is a 57.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Pulborough in West Sussex. A larger area of 63 hectares, including Chingford Pond to the west, is designated a Local Nature Reserve called Burton and Chingford Ponds, which is managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust and West Sussex County Council.

    3.3 km · park and biological site of interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Parish Church of St Giles, Graffham

    St Giles' Church is a Church of England parish church in the village of Graffham, West Sussex, England. It has 12th-century origins and retains some fabric from the medieval era, but it was rebuilt by Victorian architect George Edmund Street beginning in 1874 to commemorate the former Bishop of Oxford and Winchester Samuel Wilberforce, owner of the nearby Lavington Park estate, who had died the previous year and whose grave is in the churchyard.

    1.8 km · church building in Graffham, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to East Lavington

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 40 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 61 km · London Luton (LTN), 106 km
Stations
Petworth railway station, 3.7 km
  • London → East Lavington
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → East Lavington
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £12–15
  • London, Essex → East Lavington
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £8–11
  • 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 East Lavington

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: South Downs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    53 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    282 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    464 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    595 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    632 km

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

Around it

Next door to East Lavington

  • Graffhamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.3 km
  • Dunctonvillage in West Sussex, England, UK1.7 km
  • Upwalthamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.6 km
  • Barlavingtonvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.6 km
  • Suttonvillage and civil parish in West Sussex, UK3.5 km