Northiam
Northiam is a village and civil parish in the Rother district, in East Sussex, England, 13 miles (21 km) north of Hastings in the valley of the River Rother.

Northiam is a village and civil parish in the Rother district, in East Sussex, England, 13 miles (21 km) north of Hastings in the valley of the River Rother. The A28 road to Ashford, Canterbury and Hastings passes through it.
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Worth seeing in and around Northiam
3 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.
- 01Great Dixter
Great Dixter is a house in Northiam, East Sussex, England. It was built in 1910–12 by architect Edwin Lutyens, who combined an existing mid-15th century house on the site with a similar structure brought from Benenden, Kent, together with his own additions.
1 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Brickwall
Brickwall House is a country house in Northiam, East Sussex, England, now run as a dyslexia school and also a wedding venue. The timber-framed Tudor house dates to 1617.
600 m · country house in Northiam, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03The Unitarian Chapel
Northiam Unitarian Chapel is a former place of worship for Unitarians in Northiam, a village in the district of Rother in the English county of East Sussex. Originally General Baptist in character when opened in a wooden building in 1795, its congregation came under the influence of William Vidler from nearby Battle—a former Baptist who had moved towards Universalism and Unitarianism—and adopted his views.
700 m · chapel in Northiam, Rother, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Northiam
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 58 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 91 km · London Stansted (STN), 103 km
- Stations
- Northiam railway station, 2.4 km
- London → Northiam76 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Northiam76 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Northiam121 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Northiam
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 Northiam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThey continue to Ashford, then either to Canterbury West, Minster and Ramsgate, or to Folkestone and Dover (for Channel ferries).
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