Hassocks
Hassocks is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

Hassocks is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. Its name is believed to derive from the tufts of grass found in the surrounding fields.
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Worth seeing in and around Hassocks
10 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.
- 01Ditchling Beacon
Ditchling Beacon is the highest point in East Sussex, England, with an elevation of 248 m. It is south of Ditchling and to the north-east of Brighton.
4 km · hill in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Danny House
Danny House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan red brick mansion near Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex, England. It lies at the northern foot of Wolstonbury Hill and may be regarded as one of the finest stately houses in Sussex, with 56 bedrooms and 28 apartments.
1.6 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe
The Church of the Transfiguration is the Church of England parish church of the village of Pyecombe, in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. The mostly 12th- and 13th-century building, in an isolated setting facing the South Downs, has been designated a Grade I Listed building.
2.9 km · church in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St John the Evangelist's Church, Burgess Hill
St John the Evangelist's Church is the Church of England parish church of Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England. It is a Gothic Revival church built of local bricks.
4 km · church in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer
St Cosmas and St Damian Church is an Anglican church in the village of Keymer, in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. Rebuilt in 1866 in a style similar to the Saxon building it replaced, it is the parish church of Keymer and now lies within a combined parish serving three villages in Mid Sussex.
1.4 km · church in Keymer, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton
St John the Baptist's Church is the Church of England parish church of the village of Clayton in Mid Sussex District, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. The small and simple Anglo-Saxon building is distinguished by its "remarkable" and extensive set of wall paintings, dating from the early 12th century and rediscovered more than 700 years later.
1.4 km · church in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Wolstonbury Hill
Wolstonbury Hill is a 58.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of in West Sussex, within South Downs National Park. It is owned by the National Trust and part of it is a Scheduled Monument.
2.2 km · hill and protected area in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Newtimber Place
Newtimber Place is a Grade I listed building in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. The house sits on a D-shaped island in a moat.
3.6 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09The Mansion House
Mansion House is a prominent and historically significant Grade II* listed Georgian village property in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England. The substantial family home is situated in the heart of Hurstpierpoint with the High Street at the front and South Downs to the rear.
2.1 km · house in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10The Parish Church of St John Evangelist
St John the Evangelist Church is an Anglican church in Newtimber, West Sussex.
3.5 km · church in Newtimber, Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hassocks
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 25 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · London Luton (LTN), 107 km
- Stations
- Burgess Hill railway station, 3.7 km · Hassocks railway station, 400 m
- London → Hassocks65 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Hassocks107 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £13–17
- London, Essex → Hassocks65 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £7–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hassocks
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 Hassocks. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.
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Next door to Hassocks
- Burgess Hilltown in West Sussex, England, UK3.8 km
- Ditchlingvillage in East Sussex, England, UK2.9 km
- Pyecombevillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.9 km
- Hurstpierpointvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.7 km
- Westmestonvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.9 km
- Albournevillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.8 km