Etchingwood
Etchingwood is a small cluster of mostly detached properties and farms within the civil parish of Buxted in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.
Etchingwood is a small cluster of mostly detached properties and farms within the civil parish of Buxted in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. Its nearest town is Uckfield, which lies approximately 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south-west from the area, just off the A272 road. Framfield Road, Buxted and its namesake Etchingwood Lane both run through the area of Etchingwood, joining it to Hammonds Green to the South and Buxted to the North. The area has several public footpaths and bridleways running through it and there are long distant views of the South Downs National Park.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Etchingwood
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.
- 01The Old Parish Church of St Margaret, Buxted Park
The Church of St Margaret the Queen is a grade I listed building in Buxted Park, East Sussex, England. It is dedicated to Saint Margaret of Scotland, an 11th-century Scottish queen.
2.3 km · church in Buxted Park, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Providence Chapel, Hadlow Down
Providence Chapel is a former independent Calvinistic place of worship in the village of Hadlow Down in Wealden, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex. Although built in 1849, the chapel can trace its origins to the founding in 1824 of an Independent place of worship in the village.
2.8 km · chapel in Hadlow Down, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Mark's Church, Hadlow Down
St Mark's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Hadlow Down in the district of Wealden, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex. Founded in 1834 by a committed local resident who petitioned the Archbishop of Canterbury for permission to establish a chapel in the poor agricultural village, the church proved popular—despite the competing presence of two Nonconformist chapels nearby—and was extended in 1913.
2.7 km · grade II listed church in Hadlow Down, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Copping Hall
Copping Hall is a Grade II* listed house in Uckfield, East Sussex, England. It is located at 46 Church Lane, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1BT. Built in the eighteenth century, it is two-storey high and contains an attic, three windows and two dormers as well as grey headers with red brick dressings and quoins.
3.8 km · house in Uckfield, Wealden, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05The Baptist Church
Uckfield Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation based in the town of Uckfield in East Sussex, England. Although services now take place in a school, the cause—founded in 1785 by seceders from the nearby Five Ash Down Independent Chapel—had its own chapel from 1789 until 2005, when the building closed and was sold for residential conversion.
3.4 km · protestant church building in Uckfield, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Hempstead Meadow
Hempstead Meadow is a 1.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Uckfield in East Sussex. It is owned and managed by Uckfield Town Council.
3.7 km · park · Wikipedia - 07Five Ash Down Independent Chapel
Five Ash Down Independent Chapel is an independent Evangelical church in the Reformed tradition in the hamlet of Five Ash Down, East Sussex, England. Founded in 1773 in the house of a local man, Thomas Dicker Sr.
3.3 km · church in East Sussex , United Kingdom · 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.
Getting to Etchingwood
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 30 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 69 km · London Stansted (STN), 100 km
- Stations
- Buxted railway station, 1.4 km · Uckfield railway station, 3.9 km
- London → Etchingwood62 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £7–9
- London, Essex → Etchingwood62 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Etchingwood107 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–18
- 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 Etchingwood
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 Etchingwood. 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.
- 01107 km
- 02337 km
- 03417 km
- 04620 km
- 05655 km
If you know how people move in Etchingwood – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Etchingwood
- Uckfieldtown in East Sussex, England3.6 km
- Buxtedvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, England1.5 km
- Hadlow Downvillage in East Sussex, England3 km
- Framfieldvillage in East Sussex, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Cooper's Greenvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
- Five Ash Downvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.5 km