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

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.
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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.
- 01Edburton 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 - 02Danny 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 - 03St 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 - 04Church 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 - 05Wolstonbury 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 - 06Newtimber 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 - 07The 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
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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 → Poynings69 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £7–10
- Luton, Luton → Poynings111 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £14–18
- London, Essex → Poynings69 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £7–10
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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.
- Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.
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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