Horsted Keynes
Horsted Keynes KAYNZ is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.
Horsted Keynes KAYNZ is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. The village is about 5 miles (8 km) north east of Haywards Heath, in the Weald. The civil parish is largely rural, covering 1,581 hectares. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 1,586, increased from 1,507 in 2001. The 0° meridian passes about 1 mile to the east of the village of Horsted Keynes.
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Worth seeing in and around Horsted Keynes
5 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.
- 01Bluebell Railway
The Bluebell Railway is an 11-mile standard-gauge heritage railway spanning the border of East Sussex and West Sussex, England. Running between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead, the line is notable as the world's first preserved standard gauge, steam-operated passenger railway to launch a regular public timetable service.
1.4 km · heritage railway in East Sussex, England · Wikipedia - 02St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes
St Giles' Church is an Anglican church in the village of Horsted Keynes in Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Serving an extensive rural parish in the Sussex Weald, it stands at the north end of its village on the site of an ancient pagan place of worship.
600 m · church in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03All Saints Church
All Saints Church is an Anglican church in the hamlet of Highbrook in Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. The tiny settlement, in the parish of West Hoathly, was distant from the parish church in that village; two wealthy sisters accordingly funded the construction of a new church to serve the local population.
3.1 km · church in Highbrook, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Birch Grove
Birch Grove, in Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, England, is a country house dating from 1926. It was the family home of Harold Macmillan, the British prime minister from 1957 to 1963, who died there in 1986.
3.5 km · country house in West Sussex, England dating from 1926 · Wikipedia - 05Freshfield Lane
Freshfield Lane is a 17-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Haywards Heath in West Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
1.5 km · geological site in West Sussex, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Horsted Keynes
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 17 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km · London Stansted (STN), 96 km
- Stations
- Horsted Keynes railway station, 1.8 km
- London → Horsted Keynes53 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £6–8
- London, Essex → Horsted Keynes53 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Horsted Keynes98 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £12–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Horsted Keynes
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 Horsted Keynes. 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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Horsted Keynes is 53 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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