Lancing
Lancing is a large coastal village and civil parish in the Adur district of West Sussex, England, on the western edge of the Adur Valley.

Lancing is a large coastal village and civil parish in the Adur district of West Sussex, England, on the western edge of the Adur Valley. It occupies part of the narrow central section of the Sussex coastal plain between smaller Sompting to the west, larger Shoreham-by-Sea to the east, and the parish of Coombes to the north. Excluding definitive suburbs it may have the largest undivided village cluster in Britain. However, its economy is commonly analysed as integral to the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. Its settled area beneath the South Downs National Park covers 3.65 square miles, the majority of its land.
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Worth seeing in and around Lancing
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.
- 01Lancing Ring
Lancing Ring is a 29.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Lancing in West Sussex. It is owned and managed by Adur District Council.
1.7 km · hill in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Coombes Church
Coombes Church is a Church of England parish church in the rural hamlet of Coombes in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. It has served the rural parish, northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea and next to the River Adur, since the 11th century.
3.3 km · church in Adur, UK · Wikipedia - 03St 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.
2.5 km · church in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting
The Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, also known as St Mary the Virgin Church and St Mary's Church, is the Church of England parish church of Sompting in the Adur district of West Sussex. It stands on a rural lane north of the urban area that now surrounds the village, and retains much 11th- and 12th-century structure.
2.4 km · church in Adur, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St. Mary's Church, Broadwater
St. Mary's Church, Broadwater, is a Church of England parish church in the Worthing Deanery of the Diocese of Chichester.
3.8 km · church in Worthing, UK · Wikipedia - 06St George's Church, Worthing
St George's Church is an Anglican church in the East Worthing area of the borough of Worthing, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Built in 1867–68 to serve new residential development in the southeast of the town, the Decorated Gothic-style structure was extended later in the 19th century, and expanded its reach further by founding three mission halls elsewhere in Worthing.
3.3 km · grade II listed church in Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St James the Less Church, Lancing
St James the Less Church is the Anglican parish church of Lancing with Coombes, an ancient village which has been absorbed into the modern town of Lancing in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded in the 12th century in the most northerly of the three settlements in Lancing parish, which has Saxon origins.
700 m · church in Adur, UK · Wikipedia - 08St 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.
3.1 km · church in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Lancing 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.
2 km · Grade I listed chapel in Adur, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Adur 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.
2.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lancing
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 36 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 72 km · London Luton (LTN), 116 km
- Stations
- Shoreham-by-Sea, 3.6 km · Brighton City Airport, 1.6 km · Shoreham-by-Sea railway station, 3.4 km · East Worthing railway station, 2.8 km · Lancing railway station, 600 m
- London → Lancing77 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Lancing117 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £15–20
- London, Essex → Lancing77 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £8–11
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lancing
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 Lancing. 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 Lancing
- Adurlocal government district of West Sussex, England3.7 km
- Coombesvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.5 km
- Somptingvillage and civil parish in West Sussex, UK1.5 km
- Broadwatersuburb in Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK3.9 km
- East Worthingarea of Worthing, West Sussex, England3 km