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Mile Oak

Mile Oak is a locality forming the northern part of the former parish of Portslade in the northwest corner of the city of Brighton and Hove, England.

Mile Oak
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The place

Mile Oak is a locality forming the northern part of the former parish of Portslade in the northwest corner of the city of Brighton and Hove, England. Now mostly residential, but originally an area of good-quality agricultural land, it covers the area north of Portslade village as far as the urban boundary.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mile Oak

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
    Edburton Castle Ring

    Edburton Castle Ring is an archaeological site in West Sussex, England, on the peak of Edburton Hill on the South Downs, near the villages of Edburton and Fulking. It is a Scheduled Monument.

    3.4 km · castle in Fulking, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.6 km · church in Adur, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.3 km · Hindu temple in the UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.2 km · grade II listed church in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hounsom Memorial Church

    The Hounsom Memorial Church is a United Reformed place of worship in Hove in the English city of Brighton and Hove. One of six churches of that denomination in the city, it was built in 1938 for the Congregational Church, which became part of the United Reformed Church in 1972.

    3.1 km · church in Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Helen's Church, Hangleton

    St Helen's Church, an Anglican church in the Hangleton area of Hove, is the oldest surviving building in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is the ancient parish church of Hangleton, an isolated South Downs village that was abandoned by the Middle Ages and was open farmland until the Interwar Period, when extensive residential development took place.

    2.3 km · church in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Peter's Church, West Blatchington

    St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in the West Blatchington area of Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Although it has 11th- and 12th-century origins, the church was rebuilt from a ruined state in the late 19th century and extended substantially in the 1960s, and little trace remains of the ancient building.

    3.5 km · church in West Blatchington, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    2.9 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    3.8 km · church in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Portslade Town Hall

    Portslade Town Hall, formerly the Ronuk Hall and Welfare Institute, is a municipal building in Victoria Road in Portslade, East Sussex, England. The structure, which was the meeting place of Portslade Urban District Council Council, is a locally-listed building.

    2.5 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Mile Oak

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 33 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 114 km
Stations
Shoreham-by-Sea, 3.5 km · Shoreham-by-Sea railway station, 3.6 km · Fishersgate railway station, 2.5 km · Portslade railway station, 2.9 km · Southwick railway station, 2.5 km
  • London → Mile Oak
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Mile Oak
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £13–17
  • London, Essex → Mile Oak
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mile Oak

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 Mile Oak. 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

    78 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    312 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    618 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    654 km

If you know how people move in Mile Oak – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Mile Oak

  • Adurlocal government district of West Sussex, England3.4 km
  • Southwicktown in West Sussex, UK2.2 km
  • Portsladearea of the city of Brighton and Hove, England1.7 km
  • Fulkingvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.8 km
  • Kingston by Seavillage in Adur district, West Sussex, England, UK1.7 km
  • Edburtonvillage in West Sussex, England3.9 km