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Peacehaven

Peacehaven is a town and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England.

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The place

Peacehaven is a town and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England. It is above the chalk cliffs of the South Downs about 6 miles (10 km) east of Brighton city centre, on the A259 road. It is the place where the Greenwich meridian crosses the English south coast. Peacehaven is next to Telscombe Cliffs, a later western extension to Peacehaven, which is in a separate parish and has a separate town council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Peacehaven

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
    Monk's House

    Monk's House is a 17th-century weatherboarded cottage in the village of Rodmell, three miles south of Lewes, East Sussex, England. The writer Virginia Woolf and her husband, the political activist, journalist and editor Leonard Woolf, bought the house by auction at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, on 1 July 1919 for 700 pounds, and received there many visitors connected to the Bloomsbury Group, including T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry and Lytton Strachey.

    4.5 km · historic house in Rodmell, East Sussex, now a National Trust property, was from 1919 until their deaths the home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Newhaven Fort

    Newhaven Fort is a Palmerston fort built in the 19th century to defend the harbour at Newhaven, on the south coast of England. It was the largest defence work ever built in Sussex and is now open as a museum.

    4.2 km · Victorian fort in Newhaven, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ovingdean Rectory

    Ovingdean Rectory is a clergy house at Ovingdean, East Sussex, England. The building was built from 1804 to 1807, replacing an earlier rectory described as "a mean, thatched parsonage-house" in a letter to Sir William Burrell There are mathematical tiles on the southern and western exterior.

    5.7 km · clergy house in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Swanborough Manor

    Swanborough Manor is a listed English manor dating back to the 12th century in Iford, East Sussex.

    5.9 km · Grade I listed building in Iford, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Parish Church of St Nicholas

    The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican church in the village of Iford, East Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester, and in the United Benefice of Iford with Kingston, Rodmell and Southease.

    5.4 km · Grade I listed church in Iford, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Saltdean Lido

    Saltdean Lido at Saltdean Park Road, Saltdean, in the city of Brighton and Hove, in the ceremonial county of East Sussex, England, is an Art Deco lido designed by architect R.W.H. Jones. Originally listed at Grade II by English Heritage for its architectural and historical importance, its status was upgraded further to "Grade II*" on 18 March 2011.

    3 km · historic site in Brighton and Hove, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hillside

    Hillside is an 18th-century Grade II* listed building in Rottingdean, in the city of Brighton and Hove. The house contains a gazebo listed for its special architectural or historic interest, and also contains a Grade II listed barn.

    4.3 km · house in Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Asham Quarry

    Asham Quarry is a 2.6-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Newhaven in East Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and in the Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    5.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Beacon Hill

    Beacon Hill is an 18.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Rottingdean, on the eastern outskirts of Brighton in East Sussex. It is owned and managed by Brighton and Hove Council.

    4.7 km · park in East Sussex, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Ovingdean Grange

    Ovingdean Grange is a Grade II listed manor house situated on the south coast of England in the village of Ovingdean, east of Brighton. One of the oldest and most historical residences in Brighton, it gave its name to the novel Ovingdean Grange by the popular 19th-century writer William Harrison Ainsworth.

    5.7 km · country house in Ovingdean, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Peacehaven

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 41 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 81 km · London Stansted (STN), 122 km
Stations
Newhaven Town railway station, 3.9 km · Newhaven Harbour railway station, 4 km · Southease railway station, 4 km · Port of Newhaven, 4 km · Bishopstone Beach Halt railway station, 5.3 km
  • London → Peacehaven
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Peacehaven
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Peacehaven
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Peacehaven

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you are in Europe, you can take a ferry from Dieppe to Newhaven.
  • Get inIf you are catching a ferry, you may wish to park your car in the town.
  • Get aroundBoth of these places are within walking distance from the station and ferry port.
  • Go nextCatch a ferry to Dieppe, see the Get in section.

From Wikivoyage: Newhaven, 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

    93 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    330 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    438 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    631 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    667 km

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

Around it

Next door to Peacehaven

  • Newhaventown in East Sussex, England4.2 km
  • Telscombetown in East Sussex, England, UK800 m
  • Rottingdeanvillage in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England4.9 km
  • Ifordvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, UK5.6 km
  • Southeasevillage and civil parish in East Sussex, England, UK3.6 km
  • Piddinghoevillage and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England2.4 km