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Ovingdean

Ovingdean is a small, formerly agricultural village on the eastern edge of the city of Brighton and Hove in the ceremonial county East Sussex, England.

Ovingdean
Ovingdean · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ovingdean is a small, formerly agricultural village on the eastern edge of the city of Brighton and Hove in the ceremonial county East Sussex, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ovingdean

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
    Volk's Electric Railway

    Narrow gauge heritage railway in Brighton, England

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ovingdean Rectory

    Clergy house in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK

    200 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John the Baptist's Church, Brighton

    Church in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bristol Road Methodist Church

    Grade II listed church in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mark's Church, Brighton

    Grade II listed church in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary the Virgin, Brighton

    Church in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK

    4 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hillside

    House in Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, UK

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Beacon Hill

    Park in East Sussex, United Kingdom

    900 m · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ovingdean Grange

    Country house in Ovingdean, East Sussex, England, UK

    300 m · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean

    Grade I listed church in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK

    300 m · 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 Ovingdean

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 38 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km · London Luton (LTN), 120 km
  • London → Ovingdean
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Ovingdean
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19
  • London, Essex → Ovingdean
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £8–11
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ovingdean

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 Ovingdean. 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

    88 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    324 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    441 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    627 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    663 km

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

Around it

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