Rotherbridge
Rotherbridge is a village situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of Petworth in West Sussex, England.
Rotherbridge is a village situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of Petworth in West Sussex, England. Until 1800, the road from Chichester to Petworth crossed the River Rother by a bridge here; the river acquired its present name from the bridge. Rotherbridge also gave its name to the Hundred of Rotherbridge which comprised several of the surrounding villages, as well as the town of Petworth.
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Worth seeing in and around Rotherbridge
8 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.
- 01Petworth House
Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin.
1.9 km · historic estate museum in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Sacred Heart Church
Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1896 and designed by Frederick Walters.
1.9 km · church in Petworth, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Petworth Canal
The Petworth Canal was one of Britain's shorter lasting canals, opened in 1795 and dismantled in 1826. Upon completion of the Rother Navigation, the Earl of Egremont used his estate workforce to build the 1¼ mile long canal from just upstream of the Shopham Cut to Haslingbourne, with two locks, each with a rise of 8 feet and 6 inches.
1.8 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia - 04Burton Park
Burton Park is a 19th-century country house in the civil parish of Duncton in West Sussex, and is situated 1/2 a mile to the east of the village of Duncton, within its own estate. It is a Grade I listed building, now converted into multiple occupation.
2.7 km · country house in Duncton, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05The Town Hall
Leconfield Hall, formerly Petworth Town Hall, is a municipal building in the Market Square in Petworth, West Sussex, England. The building, which is now used as a cinema, is a Grade II* listed building.
1.8 km · Grade II* listed building in Petworth, UK · Wikipedia - 06Burton Park SSSI
Burton Park SSSI is a 57.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Pulborough in West Sussex. A larger area of 63 hectares, including Chingford Pond to the west, is designated a Local Nature Reserve called Burton and Chingford Ponds, which is managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust and West Sussex County Council.
2.7 km · park and biological site of interest · Wikipedia - 07Petworth Cottage Museum
Petworth Cottage Museum, at 346 High Street, Petworth, West Sussex is a Leconfield Estate worker's cottage. It has been restored and furnished as it might have been in about 1910 when the occupier was a Mrs.
1.9 km · UK historic house museum · Wikipedia - 08Pitshill
Pitshill is a Grade II* listed house built in the neoclassical style and is located within the parish of Tillington, West Sussex, England, a couple of miles west of Petworth. Begun by William Mitford in 1760 on the site of an earlier house it was completed by his son, also William, in 1794.
3.2 km · country house in Tillington, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rotherbridge
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 36 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km · London Luton (LTN), 102 km
- Stations
- Petworth railway station, 1.1 km · Selham railway station, 3.3 km
- London → Rotherbridge69 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £8–10
- Luton, Luton → Rotherbridge102 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–15
- London, Essex → Rotherbridge69 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rotherbridge
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 Rotherbridge. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries to Newhaven and Portsmouth, and the London airports (especially Gatwick) are handy for overseas visitors.
- Go nextOr you could head south to Newhaven and catch a ferry to Dieppe in France.
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Next door to Rotherbridge
Rotherbridge is 59 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Petworthtown and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England1.8 km
- Tillingtonvillage and civil parish in West Sussex, England, UK1.8 km
- Dunctonvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3 km
- Egdeanvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
- Coatesvillage in Fittleworth, West Sussex, England, UK3.9 km
- Selhamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.4 km