Hadlow Down
Hadlow Down is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.
Hadlow Down is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. It is located on the A272 road three miles (4.8 km) north-west of Heathfield. The parish is within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It came to prominence with the Wealden iron industry in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2011 the parish had a population of 857.
The majority of the population now works outside the parish, but it still has a strong community atmosphere centred on the New Inn pub, St. Mark's school and St. Mark's church.
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Worth seeing in and around Hadlow Down
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.
- 01Providence 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.
500 m · chapel in Hadlow Down, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St 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.
400 m · grade II listed church in Hadlow Down, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hadlow Down
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 30 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 69 km · London Stansted (STN), 98 km
- Stations
- Buxted railway station, 3.6 km
- London → Hadlow Down61 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £8–11
- London, Essex → Hadlow Down61 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Hadlow Down107 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hadlow 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 Hadlow 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.
From Wikivoyage: Ashdown Forest, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Hadlow Down – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Hadlow Down
- Wealdenlocal government district in East Sussex, England2.2 km
- Buxtedvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, England3.7 km
- Five Ashesvillage in East Sussex, England2.7 km
- Etchingwoodvillage in East Sussex, UK3 km