Piltdown

Worth seeing in and around Piltdown

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
   Sheffield Park Garden

   Sheffield Park and Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath, in East Sussex, England. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown, and further developed as a woodland garden in the early 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames.

   3.3 km · park in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Sheffield Park cricket ground

   Sheffield Park is a cricket ground at the Sheffield Park estate, located near Uckfield, East Sussex, England. From 1881 to 1896 it was the home ground of Lord Sheffield's XI, organised by Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield, who in 1891 donated £150 to the New South Wales Cricket Association which was used to purchase a plate and establish the competition known as the Sheffield Shield.

   2.5 km · cricket ground in East Sussex, England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Hempstead Meadow

   Hempstead Meadow is a 1.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Uckfield in East Sussex. It is owned and managed by Uckfield Town Council.

   3.7 km · park · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Copping Hall

   Copping Hall is a Grade II* listed house in Uckfield, East Sussex, England. It is located at 46 Church Lane, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1BT. Built in the eighteenth century, it is two-storey high and contains an attic, three windows and two dormers as well as grey headers with red brick dressings and quoins.

   3.2 km · house in Uckfield, Wealden, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   The Baptist Church

   Uckfield Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation based in the town of Uckfield in East Sussex, England. Although services now take place in a school, the cause—founded in 1785 by seceders from the nearby Five Ash Down Independent Chapel—had its own chapel from 1789 until 2005, when the building closed and was sold for residential conversion.

   3.5 km · protestant church building in Uckfield, Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Five Ash Down Independent Chapel

   Five Ash Down Independent Chapel is an independent Evangelical church in the Reformed tradition in the hamlet of Five Ash Down, East Sussex, England. Founded in 1773 in the house of a local man, Thomas Dicker Sr.

   3.9 km · church in East Sussex , United Kingdom · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Zion Chapel, Newick

   Zion Chapel is a former Strict Baptist place of worship in the village of Newick in Lewes District, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex. The tiny building was opened for worship in 1834 in a part of Sussex which was a hotbed of Protestant Nonconformism, and remained as one of three places of worship in the small Wealden village until 2001, when it was sold for conversion to houses.

   3 km · grade II listed church in Newick, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Piltdown

Airports

London Gatwick (LGW), 25 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · London Stansted (STN), 101 km

Stations

Uckfield railway station, 3.5 km · Sheffield Park railway station, 3.9 km

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