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Henfield

Henfield is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

Henfield
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The place

Henfield is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies 41 miles (66 km) south of London, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Brighton, and 30 miles (48 km) east northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road junction of the A281 and A2037. The parish has a land area of 4,285 acres (1,734.1 ha). In the 2001 census 5,012 people lived in 2,153 households, of whom 2,361 were economically active. Other nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the east and Shoreham-by-Sea to the south. The population at the 2011 Census was 5,349.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Henfield

6 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
    The Parish Church of St James, Ashurst

    St James's Church is a Church of England parish church in Ashurst, West Sussex. The church is a grade I listed building and it dates from the early 12th century.

    3.5 km · church in Ashurst, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Horton Clay Pit

    Horton Clay Pit is a 0.4-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Small Dole in West Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    3.8 km · geological site in West Sussex · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Betley Bridge

    Betley Bridge is a disused railway bridge, now a rail trail bridge, which crosses the confluence of the East and West Adur rivers North of Henfield in West Sussex. The Steyning Line from Shoreham to Guildford passed over it, and is now the part of the Downs Link, a public footpath.

    1.7 km · disused railway bridge in West Sussex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Parish Church of St Giles, Shermanbury

    St Giles' Church is a Church of England parish church in the small village of Shermanbury, West Sussex. Placed on the same site as a church recorded in Domesday Book, the present church was largely built in the 13th century but was heavily restored and partially rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries.

    2.6 km · church in Shermanbury, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Peter's Church, Henfield

    St Peter's Church is a Church of England parish church in the large village of Henfield, West Sussex. Placed on the site of an 8th-century Saxon church also dedicated to St Peter, it was built in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, but was heavily restored and partially rebuilt in the 19th century.

    100 m · church in Henfield, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Partridge Green

    St Michael and All Angels Church is a late nineteenth-century church in the settlement of Partridge Green in the parish of West Grinstead in West Sussex. It was built to cater for the then growing population of the village.

    3.9 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Henfield

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 25 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 61 km · London Luton (LTN), 105 km
Stations
Partridge Green railway station, 3.4 km · Henfield railway station, 600 m
  • London → Henfield
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Henfield
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–18
  • London, Essex → Henfield
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–9
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Henfield

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    77 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    308 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    443 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    609 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    645 km

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Around it

Next door to Henfield

  • Woodmancotevillage and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England2.8 km
  • Shermanburyvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3 km
  • Ashurstvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
  • Partridge Greenvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.6 km
  • Small Dolevillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.3 km
  • Blackstonehamlet in West Sussex, England, UK3 km