Rodmell
Rodmell is a small village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.
Rodmell is a small village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. It is located three miles (4.8 km) south-east of Lewes, on the Lewes to Newhaven road and six and a half miles from the City of Brighton & Hove and is situated by the west banks of the River Ouse. The village is served by Southease railway station, opened in 1906. The Prime Meridian passes just to the west of the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Rodmell
10 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.
- 01Monk's House
Monk's House is a 17th-century weatherboarded cottage in the village of Rodmell, three miles south of Lewes, East Sussex, England. The writer Virginia Woolf and her husband, the political activist, journalist and editor Leonard Woolf, bought the house by auction at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, on 1 July 1919 for 700 pounds, and received there many visitors connected to the Bloomsbury Group, including T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry and Lytton Strachey.
400 m · historic house in Rodmell, East Sussex, now a National Trust property, was from 1919 until their deaths the home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf · Wikipedia - 02Lewes Priory
Lewes Priory is a part-demolished medieval Cluniac priory in Lewes, East Sussex in the United Kingdom. The ruins have been designated a Grade I listed building.
3.6 km · Grade I listed ruins in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Anne of Cleves House
Anne of Cleves House is a 16th-century timber-framed Wealden hall house located in Lewes, East Sussex, England. It formed part of Queen Anne's annulment settlement from King Henry VIII in 1541, although she never visited the property.
3.8 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Lewes, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04The Dripping Pan
The Dripping Pan is a football stadium in Lewes, England. It has been home to Lewes F.C. since their foundation in 1885.
3.7 km · stadium in the UK · Wikipedia - 05Southerham Grey Pit
Southerham Grey Pit is a 8.5-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Lewes in East Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Pancras Church (Kingston near Lewes)
St Pancras Church is the parish church of Kingston near Lewes in East Sussex, England. The church building was built in the 13th century and is protected as a Grade II* listed building.
3.5 km · church in Kingston near Lewes, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Swanborough Manor
Swanborough Manor is a listed English manor dating back to the 12th century in Iford, East Sussex.
2.5 km · Grade I listed building in Iford, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08The Parish Church of St Nicholas
The Church of St Nicholas is an Anglican church in the village of Iford, East Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester, and in the United Benefice of Iford with Kingston, Rodmell and Southease.
1.7 km · Grade I listed church in Iford, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Southover Grange
Southover Grange in Lewes, Sussex is a house of historical significance and is Grade II* listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in 1572 by William Newton and owned by this family for the next three hundred years.
3.9 km · building in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Railway Land, Lewes
Railway Land, Lewes is a 10.9-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Lewes in East Sussex. It is owned by Lewes District Council and managed by the council and the Railway Land Wildlife Trust.
3.9 km · park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rodmell
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 37 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km · London Stansted (STN), 118 km
- Stations
- Lewes railway station, 3.9 km · Southease railway station, 1.3 km
- London → Rodmell75 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Rodmell75 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Rodmell120 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Rodmell
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 Rodmell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you are in Europe, you can take a ferry from Dieppe to Newhaven.
- Get inIf you are catching a ferry, you may wish to park your car in the town.
- Get aroundBoth of these places are within walking distance from the station and ferry port.
- Go nextCatch a ferry to Dieppe, see the Get in section.
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Next door to Rodmell
- Kingston near Lewesvillage in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England3.6 km
- Beddinghamvillage and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
- Ifordvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, UK2.3 km
- Piddinghoevillage and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England3.1 km
- Southeasevillage and civil parish in East Sussex, England, UK800 m
- Tarring Nevillevillage and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England, UK3.1 km