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Faygate

Faygate is a village in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England.

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The place

Faygate is a village in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the A264 road 3.4 miles (5.4 km) south west of Crawley. It has a railway station on the Arun Valley Line with trains connecting to London and Portsmouth. The village is in the green belt between Crawley and Horsham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Faygate

5 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
    All Saints Church, Roffey

    All Saints Church is the Anglican parish church of Roffey, in the Horsham district of the English county of West Sussex. The present church, built to serve the Victorian suburb of Roffey—part of the ancient market town of Horsham—replaced a schoolroom in which religious services had been held since 1856.

    3 km · church in Roffey, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    House Copse

    House Copse is a 12.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Crawley in West Sussex. This ancient wood was formerly managed as hornbeam and small-leaved lime coppice with oak standards.

    1.7 km · site of special scientific interest in West Sussex, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Buchan Hill Ponds

    Buchan Hill Ponds is a 19.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the south-west outskirts of Crawley in West Sussex. This site consists of two ponds and adjacent wet woodland.

    2.5 km · biological Site · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Target Hill Park

    Target Hill Park is a 9-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Crawley in West Sussex. It is owned by Crawley Borough Council and managed by the council and Gatwick Greenspace Partnership.

    3.1 km · park · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Mark's Church, Horsham

    St Mark's Church is an Anglican church situated on North Heath Lane in the newly created Parish and Benefice of Holbrook in the district of Horsham, West Sussex in Great Britain. There is a church hall which is available for hire by community groups or for private functions.

    4 km · church in 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.

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Getting to Faygate

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 8 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 44 km · London Luton (LTN), 87 km
Stations
Faygate railway station, 200 m · Littlehaven railway station, 3.6 km · Roffey Road Halt, 1.9 km
  • London → Faygate
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Faygate
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £12–15
  • London, Essex → Faygate
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £5–7
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Faygate

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThere are many possible day trips from Horsham, here are some suggestions: Leith Hill and the Surrey Hills, 20 minutes north-northwest via the A24 and B2126, one of the most beautiful stretches of the North Downs, with the highest point in south east England.

From Wikivoyage: Horsham (West Sussex), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    86 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    308 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    432 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    594 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    630 km

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

Around it

Next door to Faygate

Faygate is 47 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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