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

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.
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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.
- 01Monk'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 - 02Newhaven 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 - 03Ovingdean 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 - 04Swanborough 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 - 05The 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 - 06Saltdean 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 - 07Hillside
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 - 08Asham 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 - 09Beacon 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 - 10Ovingdean 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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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 → Peacehaven80 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Peacehaven80 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Peacehaven124 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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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