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Keymer

Keymer is a village in the civil parish of Hassocks, in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England.

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The place

Keymer is a village in the civil parish of Hassocks, in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the B2116 road 2.4 miles (3.9 km) south of Burgess Hill.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Keymer

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.

  1. 01
    Ditchling 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.

    3 km · hill in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Danny 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.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church 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.

    3.5 km · church in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St 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.

    2 km · church in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St 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.

    100 m · church in Keymer, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ditchling Common

    Ditchling Common is a 66.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Wivelsfield in East Sussex. It is a country park.

    3.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St 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.

    3.9 km · church in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wolstonbury 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.

    3.3 km · hill and protected area in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The 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.

    3.3 km · house in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Wings Place

    Wings Place, formerly Ditchling Garden Manor, also known as Anne of Cleves House, is a Grade I country house in Ditchling, East Sussex, England. It is a Tudor house, said to be one of the best examples in the country.

    1.1 km · country house in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Keymer

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 25 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · London Luton (LTN), 107 km
Stations
Hassocks railway station, 1 km · Burgess Hill railway station, 3.4 km
  • London → Keymer
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–10
  • Luton, Luton → Keymer
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £14–18
  • London, Essex → Keymer
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Keymer

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.

From Wikivoyage: Brighton, 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

    86 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    318 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    436 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    615 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    651 km

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