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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
Northiam · Charles J. Sharp
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Great 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
  2. 02
    Brickwall

    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
  3. 03
    The 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 → Northiam
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Northiam
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Northiam
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThey continue to Ashford, then either to Canterbury West, Minster and Ramsgate, or to Folkestone and Dover (for Channel ferries).

From Wikivoyage: Tenterden, 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

    138 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    369 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    392 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    636 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    672 km

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

Around it

Next door to Northiam

  • Beckleyvillage in East Sussex, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Newendenvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Ewhurstcivil parish in East Sussex, England, UK2.8 km
  • Ewhurst Greenvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.2 km