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North Horsham

North Horsham is a civil parish in the district of Horsham in West Sussex, England, covering the northern part of the Horsham town area.

North Horsham
North Horsham · Wikimedia Commons
The place

North Horsham is a civil parish in the district of Horsham in West Sussex, England, covering the northern part of the Horsham town area. According to the 2001 census the district had a population of 21,348, increasing slightly to 21,981 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around North Horsham

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
    Madina Mosque, Horsham

    Madina Mosque is a mosque in the centre of Horsham, an ancient market town in the English county of West Sussex. It has served the Muslim community of the town and the surrounding district of Horsham since 2008.

    2.8 km · mosque in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints Church, Roffey

    All Saints Church is the Anglican parish church of Roffey, in the Horsham district of the English county of West Sussex. The present church, built to serve the Victorian suburb of Roffey—part of the ancient market town of Horsham—replaced a schoolroom in which religious services had been held since 1856.

    800 m · church in Roffey, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Horsham Museum and Art Gallery

    Horsham Museum is a museum in Horsham, West Sussex, England. It was founded in August 1893 by volunteers of the Free Christian Church and became part of Horsham District Council in 1974.

    3 km · museum in Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Horsham Unitarian Church

    Horsham Unitarian Church is a Unitarian chapel in Horsham in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded in 1719 to serve the large Baptist population of the ancient market town of Horsham—home of radical preacher Matthew Caffyn—and the surrounding area.

    3.1 km · church in Horsham, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Rising Universe

    Rising Universe, more commonly known locally as the Shelley Fountain, was a large kinetic water sculpture in Horsham, West Sussex, England. It was created by the sculptor Angela Conner and installed in 1996 to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was born near Horsham.

    3 km · sculpture by Angela Conner · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hope Chapel, Horsham

    The Hope Chapel is a Strict Baptist place of worship in the town of Horsham in the English county of West Sussex. The chapel was built in 1903.

    2.3 km · church in West Sussex, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Leonard's Park Ponds

    St Leonard's Park Ponds is a 3.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Horsham in West Sussex. These ponds and adjacent woodland provide habitats for a wide variety of dragonflies and damselflies, including some uncommon species such as the variable damselfly The banks have rich flora including the nationally rare yellow centaury.

    2.2 km · biological site in West Sussex · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. Mark's Church, Horsham

    St Mark's Church is an Anglican church situated on North Heath Lane in the newly created Parish and Benefice of Holbrook in the district of Horsham, West Sussex in Great Britain. There is a church hall which is available for hire by community groups or for private functions.

    1 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The College of Richard Collyer

    The College of Richard Collyer, formerly called Collyer's School, is a co-educational sixth form college in Horsham, West Sussex, England. The college was rated as being 'excellent’ by Ofsted in 2025.

    2 km · college in West Sussex, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Town Hall

    Horsham Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square in Horsham, West Sussex. Established by the mid-17th century, it was used as a market house, a facility for dispensing justice and a meeting place for the local town council.

    2.9 km · town hall in Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to North Horsham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 11 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 45 km · London Luton (LTN), 88 km
Stations
Horsham railway station, 2.2 km · Faygate railway station, 3.1 km · Littlehaven railway station, 500 m · Warnham railway station, 2.3 km · Roffey Road Halt, 1.2 km
  • London → North Horsham
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £6–7
  • Luton, Luton → North Horsham
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–14
  • London, Essex → North Horsham
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £6–7
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for North Horsham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThere are many possible day trips from Horsham, here are some suggestions: Leith Hill and the Surrey Hills, 20 minutes north-northwest via the A24 and B2126, one of the most beautiful stretches of the North Downs, with the highest point in south east England.

From Wikivoyage: Horsham (West Sussex), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    83 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    435 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    594 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    630 km

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

Around it

Next door to North Horsham

North Horsham is 49 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Horshamtown and civil parish in West Sussex, England2.8 km
  • Warnhamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.3 km
  • Colgatevillage in West Sussex, England, UK4 km
  • Faygatevillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.1 km
  • Graylandshamlet in West Sussex, UK1.6 km
  • Old Holbrookhamlet in West Sussex, UK1.6 km