Five Ash Down
Five Ash Down is a small village within the civil parish of Buxted, in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.
Five Ash Down is a small village within the civil parish of Buxted, in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. Its nearest town is Uckfield, which lies approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south from the village. The village lies on the A26 road between Uckfield and Crowborough. Five Ash Down is home to the Pig and Butcher public house, a village hall which has a weekly timetable of events and the village shop and Post Office. Five Ash Down Independent Chapel, an Evangelical church, was founded in 1773 and moved to its present site in 1784, although in its present form the chapel is mostly Victorian.
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Worth seeing in and around Five Ash Down
8 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.
1.7 km · church in Buxted Park, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll
St John's Church or St John the Evangelist Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in the Heron's Ghyll settlement of Buxted, East Sussex, England. It was built from 1896 to 1897 and designed by Frederick Walters.
2.3 km · church building in Buxted, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Copping 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.
3.3 km · house in Uckfield, Wealden, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04The 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.
2.9 km · protestant church building in Uckfield, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Hempstead 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 - 06Buxted Park
Buxted Park is an 84.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, located near the village of Buxted, East Sussex, England. The main house is just over 0.5 km northeast of the town of Uckfield.
700 m · Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Rock Wood
Rock Wood is a 10.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Uckfield in East Sussex. This ancient wood has several different types of broadleaved woodland, a stream which cuts through a steep sided valley and a small waterfall.
700 m · Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex · Wikipedia - 08Five 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.
1 km · church in East Sussex , United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Five Ash Down
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 26 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · London Stansted (STN), 99 km
- Stations
- Uckfield railway station, 3.8 km · Buxted railway station, 2.1 km
- London → Five Ash Down59 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £6–8
- London, Essex → Five Ash Down59 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Five Ash Down105 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £13–18
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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 Five Ash Down
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 Five Ash Down. 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.
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Next door to Five Ash Down
Five Ash Down is 59 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Uckfieldtown in East Sussex, England3.6 km
- Buxtedvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, England2.1 km
- Maresfieldvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, England, UK1.2 km
- Fairwarpvillage in East Sussex, England, UK2.2 km
- Cooper's Greenvillage in East Sussex, England, UK1.3 km
- Etchingwoodvillage in East Sussex, UK3.5 km