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Poynings

Poynings is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

Poynings
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The place

Poynings is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. The parish lies wholly with the South Downs National Park. To its south is Brighton and Hove, to its west is Fulking parish, to its east is Newtimber parish and to its north is Albourne parish. The planning authority for Poynings is the South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA), the statutory planning authority for the National Park area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Poynings

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
    Edburton Castle Ring

    Edburton Castle Ring is an archaeological site in West Sussex, England, on the peak of Edburton Hill on the South Downs, near the villages of Edburton and Fulking. It is a Scheduled Monument.

    2.9 km · castle in Fulking, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Danny House

    Danny House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan red brick mansion near Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex, England. It lies at the northern foot of Wolstonbury Hill and may be regarded as one of the finest stately houses in Sussex, with 56 bedrooms and 28 apartments.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton

    St John the Baptist's Church is the Church of England parish church of the village of Clayton in Mid Sussex District, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. The small and simple Anglo-Saxon building is distinguished by its "remarkable" and extensive set of wall paintings, dating from the early 12th century and rediscovered more than 700 years later.

    3.9 km · church in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe

    The Church of the Transfiguration is the Church of England parish church of the village of Pyecombe, in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. The mostly 12th- and 13th-century building, in an isolated setting facing the South Downs, has been designated a Grade I Listed building.

    2.8 km · church in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wolstonbury Hill

    Wolstonbury Hill is a 58.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of in West Sussex, within South Downs National Park. It is owned by the National Trust and part of it is a Scheduled Monument.

    2.7 km · hill and protected area in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Newtimber Place

    Newtimber Place is a Grade I listed building in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. The house sits on a D-shaped island in a moat.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Parish Church of St John Evangelist

    St John the Evangelist Church is an Anglican church in Newtimber, West Sussex.

    1.5 km · church in Newtimber, Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Poynings

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 28 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km · London Luton (LTN), 110 km
Stations
The Dyke railway station, 1.8 km
  • London → Poynings
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £7–10
  • Luton, Luton → Poynings
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £14–18
  • London, Essex → Poynings
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Poynings

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.

From Wikivoyage: Brighton, 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

    81 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    314 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    442 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    615 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    651 km

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

Around it

Next door to Poynings

  • Pyecombevillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.8 km
  • Woodmancotevillage and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England3.9 km
  • Fulkingvillage in West Sussex, England, UK1.8 km
  • Newtimbervillage in West Sussex, England, UK1.8 km
  • Edburtonvillage in West Sussex, England3.2 km
  • Saddlescombevillage in West Sussex, England, UK1 km