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Hartfield

Hartfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.

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The place

Hartfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The parish also includes the settlements of Colemans Hatch, Hammerwood and Holtye, all lying on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hartfield

4 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
    Buckhurst Park

    Buckhurst Park is an English country house and landscaped park in Withyham, East Sussex TN7 4BL. It is the seat of William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr. The house is a Grade II listed building, and is open to the public.

    2.3 km · country house in Withyham, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bolebroke Castle

    Bolebroke Castle is a 15th-century hunting lodge located north of the village of Hartfield, East Sussex, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.1 km · castle in Hartfield, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bassetts Manor

    Bassetts Manor is a Grade II-listed building in Hartfield, East Sussex, England.

    2.3 km · house in Hartfield, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mills Rocks

    Mills Rocks is a 1.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of East Grinstead in West Sussex. This site has rock outcrops with a number of rare plants, such as reed fescue grass at one of its only two locations in southern England.

    1.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in West Sussex, 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Hartfield has some very nice views to the north across the rolling countryside, one of the best is from the churchyard. Various 'Pooh' shops.

  1. 01
    Cotchford Farm

    Note is private home so not open to visitors.

  2. 02
    Bolebroke Castle

From Wikivoyage: Hartfield, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

The Winnie the Pooh stories were written in the 1920s by A.A. Milne to entertain his son Christopher Robin Milne. "The Enchanted Places" are settings for the Winnie the Pooh stories where young Christopher Robin's adventures actually took place. They are situated higher up on the Ashdown Forest and remain very much as they were in those distant days.

From Wikivoyage: Hartfield, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Hartfield

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 21 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km · London Stansted (STN), 87 km
Stations
Hartfield railway station, 500 m · Withyham railway station, 2.1 km
  • London → Hartfield
    48 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Hartfield
    48 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Hartfield
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £7–9
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hartfield

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    109 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    334 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    410 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    607 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    643 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hartfield

Hartfield is 48 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Withyhamvillage and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England1.5 km
  • Upper Hartfieldvillage in East Sussex, England, UK1.7 km