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Hamsey

Hamsey is a village and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England.

Hamsey
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The place

Hamsey is a village and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England. The parish covers a large area and also consists of the villages Offham and Cooksbridge. The main centres of population in the parish are now Offham and Cooksbridge. Around the main settlements are enlarged fields, isolated old cottages and farms. The winding and undulating parish lanes between banks, old hedge rows, trees, flowery verges and ditches are popular with cyclists and give good views of the Downs. In 2011 the parish had a population of 632.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Hamsey

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 31 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 71 km · London Stansted (STN), 111 km
  • London → Hamsey
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £7–10
  • London, Essex → Hamsey
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £7–10
  • Luton, Luton → Hamsey
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hamsey

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you are in Europe, you can take a ferry from Dieppe to Newhaven.
  • Get inIf you are catching a ferry, you may wish to park your car in the town.
  • Get aroundBoth of these places are within walking distance from the station and ferry port.
  • Go nextCatch a ferry to Dieppe, see the Get in section.

From Wikivoyage: Newhaven, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    95 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    328 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    430 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    622 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    658 km

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