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 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.
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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.
- 01Ambersham 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 - 02The 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
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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 → Graffham73 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Graffham105 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £12–16
- London, Essex → Graffham73 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £8–11
- 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 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.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Graffham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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