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Graffham

Graffham is a village, Anglican parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England, situated on the northern escarpment of the South Downs within the South Downs National Park.

Graffham
Graffham · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Graffham is a village, Anglican parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England, situated on the northern escarpment of the South Downs within the South Downs National Park. The civil parish is made up of the village of Graffham, part of the hamlet of Selham, and South Ambersham. It forms part of the Bury Ward for the purposes of electing a Councillor to Chichester District Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Graffham

2 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
    Ambersham Common

    Ambersham Common is a 141.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Midhurst in West Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2.

    2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    800 m · 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 Graffham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 41 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 60 km · London Luton (LTN), 105 km
Stations
Selham railway station, 3 km
  • London → Graffham
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Graffham
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £12–16
  • London, Essex → Graffham
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £8–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Graffham

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 Graffham. 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

    280 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    465 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    593 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    630 km

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

Around it

Next door to Graffham

Graffham is 60 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Heyshottvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.1 km
  • Dunctonvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.3 km
  • East Lavingtonvillage and civil parish in West Sussex, England, UK2.3 km
  • Selhamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
  • South Ambershamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.3 km