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Kingston by Sea

Kingston by Sea, also known as Kingston Buci, Kingston Bucii or simply Kingston, is a small area in the Adur district of West Sussex, England.

Kingston by Sea
Kingston by Sea · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kingston by Sea, also known as Kingston Buci, Kingston Bucii or simply Kingston, is a small area in the Adur district of West Sussex, England. Although it is now part of a continuous urban area, its origins lay in an ancient village and parish church between Southwick to the east, Shoreham-by-Sea to the west and the mouth of the River Adur to the south. St Julian's Church survives, and its parish perpetuates the ancient "Kingston Buci" name.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kingston by Sea

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
    St Julian's Church, Kingston Buci

    St Julian's Church is an Anglican church in Kingston Buci in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Kingston Buci was a Saxon-era village near the English Channel coast between Southwick and Shoreham-by-Sea; little remains from that period, and modern residential development has obscured the old boundaries between the settlements, but the church retains its mostly 13th-century appearance and serves a parish which retains the ancient Kingston Buci name.

    500 m · church in Adur, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea

    St Mary de Haura Church is an Anglican church in the ancient "New Shoreham" area of Shoreham-by-Sea in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded at the end of the 11th century as a large cruciform church which, due to its original scale, has been described as a collegiate church—a reflection of the port of Shoreham's importance at the time.

    1.5 km · church in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Nicolas' Church, Shoreham-by-Sea

    St Nicolas Church is an Anglican church in Old Shoreham, an ancient inland settlement that is now part of the town of Shoreham-by-Sea in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded on a riverside site by Anglo-Saxons at the start of the 10th century, possibly on the site of a 5th-century predecessor.

    2.3 km · church in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Brighton

    Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Brighton is a Swaminarayan Hindu Temple located in the Portslade area of the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south east coast of England. Inaugurated on 19 September 1999, the 10th Swaminarayan temple to be opened in the UK. The temple comes under the ISSO wing of the Swaminarayan Sampraday The Murti Pratishta was done by Acharya Maharajshree Tejendraprasad Pande among chants of vedic hymns.

    2.6 km · Hindu temple in the UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Southwick Ship Canal

    The Southwick Ship Canal or Southwick Canal is a canal in Southwick, West Sussex that branches off from the estuary of the River Adur near Hove. The canal is 1.75 miles in length, running east–west and parallel with the shoreline, providing facilities to the port of Shoreham.

    2.5 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Leonard's Church, Aldrington

    St Leonard's Church is an Anglican church in Hove, in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is on New Church Road in the Aldrington area of Hove, which was previously a separate village, and it serves as Aldrington's parish church.

    3.5 km · grade II listed church in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lancing College Chapel

    Lancing College Chapel is the chapel to Lancing College in West Sussex, England, and is an example of Gothic Revival architecture. The chapel was designed by R.H. Carpenter and William Slater.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed chapel in Adur, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Shoreham Town Hall

    Shoreham Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Shoreham-by-Sea Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    1.7 km · town hall in Adur, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Adur Estuary

    Adur Estuary is a 62.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts of Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. Part is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve.

    2.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Marlipins Museum

    Marlipins Museum, is a 12th to early-13th-century Grade II* listed building on the High Street in Shoreham-by-Sea, a town in Adur district in West Sussex, England. It is distinguished by the chequerboard pattern of limestone and flint on its front façade.

    1.6 km · museum in West Sussex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kingston by Sea

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 35 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 72 km · London Luton (LTN), 116 km
Stations
Shoreham-by-Sea, 1.1 km · Brighton City Airport, 3.1 km · Shoreham-by-Sea railway station, 1.2 km · Portslade railway station, 3.4 km · Fishersgate railway station, 2.4 km
  • London → Kingston by Sea
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Kingston by Sea
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £14–18
  • London, Essex → Kingston by Sea
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

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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 Kingston by Sea. 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
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    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    76 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    311 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

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  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    619 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    655 km

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Around it

Next door to Kingston by Sea

  • Adurlocal government district of West Sussex, England900 m
  • Southwicktown in West Sussex, UK1 km
  • Portsladearea of the city of Brighton and Hove, England2.8 km
  • Mile Oaklocality in Brighton and Hove, England2.6 km