Maresfield
Maresfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.
Maresfield is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. The village itself lies 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north from Uckfield; the nearby villages of Nutley and Fairwarp; and the smaller settlements of Duddleswell and Horney Common; and parts of Ashdown Forest all lie within Maresfield parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Maresfield
8 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.
- 01The Old Parish Church of St Margaret, Buxted Park
The Church of St Margaret the Queen is a grade I listed building in Buxted Park, East Sussex, England. It is dedicated to Saint Margaret of Scotland, an 11th-century Scottish queen.
2.3 km · church in Buxted Park, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll
St John's Church or St John the Evangelist Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in the Heron's Ghyll settlement of Buxted, East Sussex, England. It was built from 1896 to 1897 and designed by Frederick Walters.
3 km · church building in Buxted, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hempstead Meadow
Hempstead Meadow is a 1.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Uckfield in East Sussex. It is owned and managed by Uckfield Town Council.
3.5 km · park · Wikipedia - 04Copping Hall
Copping Hall is a Grade II* listed house in Uckfield, East Sussex, England. It is located at 46 Church Lane, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1BT. Built in the eighteenth century, it is two-storey high and contains an attic, three windows and two dormers as well as grey headers with red brick dressings and quoins.
2.9 km · house in Uckfield, Wealden, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05The Baptist Church
Uckfield Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation based in the town of Uckfield in East Sussex, England. Although services now take place in a school, the cause—founded in 1785 by seceders from the nearby Five Ash Down Independent Chapel—had its own chapel from 1789 until 2005, when the building closed and was sold for residential conversion.
2.7 km · protestant church building in Uckfield, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Buxted Park
Buxted Park is an 84.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, located near the village of Buxted, East Sussex, England. The main house is just over 0.5 km northeast of the town of Uckfield.
800 m · Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Rock Wood
Rock Wood is a 10.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Uckfield in East Sussex. This ancient wood has several different types of broadleaved woodland, a stream which cuts through a steep sided valley and a small waterfall.
800 m · Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex · Wikipedia - 08Five Ash Down Independent Chapel
Five Ash Down Independent Chapel is an independent Evangelical church in the Reformed tradition in the hamlet of Five Ash Down, East Sussex, England. Founded in 1773 in the house of a local man, Thomas Dicker Sr.
1.2 km · church in East Sussex , United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Maresfield
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 25 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · London Stansted (STN), 99 km
- Stations
- Uckfield railway station, 3.5 km · Buxted railway station, 3.1 km
- London → Maresfield57 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £6–8
- London, Essex → Maresfield57 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Maresfield102 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
- 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 Maresfield
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 Maresfield. 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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If you know how people move in Maresfield – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Maresfield
Maresfield is 59 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Uckfieldtown in East Sussex, England3.4 km
- Buxtedvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, England3 km
- Piltdownvillage in East Sussex, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Fairwarpvillage in East Sussex, England, UK2.3 km
- Cooper's Greenvillage in East Sussex, England, UK1.4 km
- Five Ash Downvillage in East Sussex, England, UK1.2 km