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Pevensey

Pevensey is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.

Pevensey
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The place

Pevensey is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The main village is located five miles (8 km) north-east of Eastbourne, one mile (1.6 km) inland from Pevensey Bay. The settlement of Pevensey Bay forms part of the parish. It was here that William the Conqueror made the landing in his invasion of England in 1066 after crossing the English Channel from Normandy.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pevensey

7 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
    Castrum Anderitum

    Anderitum was a Saxon Shore fort in the Roman province of Britannia. The ruins adjoin the west end of the village of Pevensey in East Sussex, England.

    400 m · 3rd century Roman fort in the province of Britannia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pevensey Levels

    Pevensey Levels is a 3,603.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Bexhill-on-Sea and Hailsham in East Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, a Ramsar site and a Special Area of Conservation.

    2.1 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Priory Lane

    Priory Lane is an association football stadium located in Langney, an eastern suburb of Eastbourne, East Sussex, England. It is the home of Eastbourne Borough, who play in the National League South.

    2.2 km · stadium in Eastbourne, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Nicolas Church, Pevensey

    St Nicolas' Church is the Anglican parish church of the village of Pevensey in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The church is a Grade I Listed building.

    100 m · church in Pevensey, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary's Church, Westham

    St Mary's Church, Westham, is an active Anglican parish church in High Street, Westham, East Sussex, England, standing to the west of Pevensey Castle. The earliest fabric in the church, in the south wall of the nave and in the transept, dates from the late 11th century.

    700 m · church in Westham, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Court House and Wallby

    Pevensey Court House, formerly known as Pevensey Town Hall, is a municipal building in the High Street, Pevensey, East Sussex, England. The structure, which currently accommodates a local history museum, is a Grade II listed building.

    100 m · Grade II listed court hall and lock-up in Pevensey, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stone Cross Windmill

    Stone Cross Windmill is a grade II* listed tower mill at Stone Cross, East Sussex, England which has been restored and is open to the public. The mill was also known as Blackness Mill and the White Mill.

    2.9 km · tower mill in Stone Cross, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Pevensey

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 52 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 91 km · London Stansted (STN), 119 km
Stations
Normans Bay railway station, 3.6 km · Pevensey Bay railway station, 500 m · Pevensey & Westham railway station, 1.1 km
  • London → Pevensey
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £10–14
  • London, Essex → Pevensey
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £10–14
  • Luton, Luton → Pevensey
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pevensey

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe Cuckoo Trail a cycle path from Eastbourne to Heathfield through the Sussex Weald Catch a ferry to Dieppe from the nearby town of Newhaven.

From Wikivoyage: Eastbourne, 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

    116 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    353 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    418 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    642 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    678 km

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Around it

Next door to Pevensey

  • Westhamvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, United Kingdom1.3 km
  • Langneyvillage in East Sussex, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Pevensey Bayvillage in Pevensey, Wealden, East Sussex, England1.3 km
  • Normans Baycoastal fishing hamlet located west of Bexhill-on-Sea, in East Sussex, England, UK3.9 km
  • Stone Crossvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.3 km