Shermanbury
Shermanbury is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.
Shermanbury is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the A281 road approximately 2 miles (3 km) north of Henfield. The present day village consists mainly of a ribbon development of bungalows on the east side of the A281, while the ancient parish church is to the east by Shermanbury Place. Between these is Ewhurst Manor, a 16th-century house on an old moated site with a 14th-century stone gatehouse and nearby artificial lake and farmstead.
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Worth seeing in and around Shermanbury
9 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.
- 01St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster
St Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, is the only post-Reformation Carthusian monastery in the United Kingdom. It is located in the parish of Cowfold, West Sussex, England.
1.5 km · monastery in Cowfold, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Shrine Church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Francis
The Church of Our Lady of Consolation and Saint Francis is a Roman Catholic parish church and shrine in West Grinstead, in West Sussex. It was built from 1875 to 1876, with additions made to the church in 1896 and 1964.
3.4 km · Roman Catholic diocesan shrine and parish church in West Grinstead, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Baybridge Canal
The Baybridge Canal was a short canal built entirely within the parish of West Grinstead in the English county of Sussex. It opened in 1826, and closed in 1875.
3.2 km · canal in the UK · Wikipedia - 04Betley Bridge
Betley Bridge is a disused railway bridge, now a rail trail bridge, which crosses the confluence of the East and West Adur rivers North of Henfield in West Sussex. The Steyning Line from Shoreham to Guildford passed over it, and is now the part of the Downs Link, a public footpath.
1.8 km · disused railway bridge in West Sussex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Parish Church of St George
St George's Church is an Anglican church in West Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester, occupying a rural position in the Sussex Weald by the River Adur.
3.7 km · church in West Grinstead, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06The Parish Church of St Giles, Shermanbury
St Giles' Church is a Church of England parish church in the small village of Shermanbury, West Sussex. Placed on the same site as a church recorded in Domesday Book, the present church was largely built in the 13th century but was heavily restored and partially rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries.
1 km · church in Shermanbury, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Michael and All Angels Church, Partridge Green
St Michael and All Angels Church is a late nineteenth-century church in the settlement of Partridge Green in the parish of West Grinstead in West Sussex. It was built to cater for the then growing population of the village.
1.6 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08St Peter's Church, Henfield
St Peter's Church is a Church of England parish church in the large village of Henfield, West Sussex. Placed on the site of an 8th-century Saxon church also dedicated to St Peter, it was built in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, but was heavily restored and partially rebuilt in the 19th century.
3.1 km · church in Henfield, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church of St Peter, Cowfold
St Peter's Church, Cowfold is a Church of England parish church in the village of Cowfold, West Sussex. First recorded in 1232 as a chapelry of St Peter's, Henfield, it still retains some features of the Early English original building but is mainly Perpendicular in style and, apart from some 19th-century arches, entirely medieval.
3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Cowfold, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shermanbury
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 22 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 58 km · London Luton (LTN), 102 km
- Stations
- West Grinstead railway station, 3.9 km · Partridge Green railway station, 1.5 km · Henfield railway station, 3.1 km
- London → Shermanbury62 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Shermanbury58 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–9
- London, Essex → Shermanbury62 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £7–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shermanbury
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 Shermanbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThere are many possible day trips from Horsham, here are some suggestions: Leith Hill and the Surrey Hills, 20 minutes north-northwest via the A24 and B2126, one of the most beautiful stretches of the North Downs, with the highest point in south east England.
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Next door to Shermanbury
- Henfieldvillage and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England, UK3 km
- West Grinsteadvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.7 km
- Cowfoldvillage in West Sussex, UK3.5 km
- Partridge Greenvillage in West Sussex, England, UK1.6 km
- Winehamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
- Littleworthvillage in West Sussex, England, UK1.7 km