Plumpton Green
Plumpton is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.
Plumpton is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is located 5 mi (8.0 km) north-west of Lewes. The parish measures 6.5 mi (10.5 km) in length on its north–south axis and 1 mi (1.6 km) at its widest on the B2116 Underhill Road. The southern half of the parish lies within the South Downs National Park and at the highest point, 214 m (702 ft), the South Downs Way traverses the crest of Plumpton Plain. The parish includes the small village of Plumpton adjacent to the Downs and to the north the larger village of Plumpton Green where most of the community and services are based. Plumpton is known for its racecourse, and also Plumpton College, which farms over 2,500 acres (1,000 ha) of land and has become one of the leading centres for land-based education in the UK.
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Worth seeing in and around Plumpton Green
6 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.
- 01Ditchling Beacon
Ditchling Beacon is the highest point in East Sussex, England, with an elevation of 248 m. It is south of Ditchling and to the north-east of Brighton.
2.6 km · hill in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Stanmer Church
Stanmer Church is a former Anglican church in Stanmer village, on the northeastern edge of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The ancient village stands within Stanmer Park, the former private estate of the Earl of Chichester, which the Brighton Corporation acquired for the benefit of Brighton's citizens after the Second World War.
4 km · grade II listed church in England · Wikipedia - 03Blackcap
Blackcap is a hill and nature reserve in East Sussex, England. It is on a peak of the South Downs, just south east of Plumpton and west of Lewes.
1.7 km · hill in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Ditchling Unitarian Chapel
Ditchling Unitarian Chapel is a Unitarian chapel in Ditchling, a village in the English county of East Sussex. A congregation of General Baptists began to meet in the 17th century in the village, which was a local centre for Protestant Nonconformist worship, and by the time the present simple Vernacular-style chapel was constructed in 1740 a large proportion of the population held Baptist beliefs.
3.9 km · grade II listed church in Ditchling, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Plumpton College
Plumpton College is a Further and Higher education college in Plumpton, East Sussex, England, with courses in a variety of land based and related subjects. The college provides a range of full-time and part-time land-based courses, FE courses to Foundation Degree and BSc courses.
700 m · college in East Sussex, UK · Wikipedia - 06Plumpton Place
Plumpton Place is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England.
600 m · country house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Plumpton Green
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 29 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 69 km · London Luton (LTN), 110 km
- Stations
- Plumpton railway station, 3.3 km
- London → Plumpton Green64 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £6–9
- Luton, Luton → Plumpton Green108 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–17
- London, Essex → Plumpton Green64 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £6–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Plumpton Green
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 Plumpton Green. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.
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