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Sidlesham

Sidlesham is a small village and civil parish, on the Manhood Peninsula, five kilometres (3 miles) south of Chichester in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.

Sidlesham
Sidlesham · Andreas F. Borchert
The place

Sidlesham is a small village and civil parish, on the Manhood Peninsula, five kilometres (3 miles) south of Chichester in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It has a small primary school. The area has had a prebendary since medieval times. The 13th-century church of St Mary Our Lady is built of stone rubble, not the usual flint of the area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sidlesham

5 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
    St James' Church, Birdham

    The parish church of St James, Birdham is situated on the Manhood Peninsula in Sussex. The area is a suburban extension of the city of Chichester, popular as a place to live and visit from its nearness to the city, Chichester Harbour and marina.

    3.2 km · church in Chichester, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chichester Canal

    The Chichester Canal is a ship canal in England. Partly navigable, its course is essentially intact and runs 3.8 miles from the sea at Birdham on Chichester Harbour to Chichester through two locks.

    3.3 km · Canal in Chichester, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary Our Lady Sidlesham

    St Mary Our Lady is the parish church of Sidlesham in West Sussex, England. The family friendly church is down a short lane off the Chichester to Selsey road, by some thatched cottages.

    200 m · Grade I listed church in Sidlesham, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Leodegar's Church, Hunston

    St Leodegar's Church is the Anglican parish church of Hunston, a hamlet in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. The dedication—rare in England and unique in Sussex—has also been spelt St Ledger historically.

    2.6 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton

    St Wilfrid's Chapel, also known as St Wilfrid's Church and originally as St Peter's Church, is a former Anglican church at Church Norton, a rural location near the village of Selsey in West Sussex, England. In its original, larger form, the church served as Selsey's parish church from the 13th century until the mid 1860s; when half of it was dismantled, moved to the centre of the village and rebuilt along with modern additions.

    3.9 km · church in Chichester, 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.

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Getting to Sidlesham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 58 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 80 km · London Luton (LTN), 125 km
  • London → Sidlesham
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Sidlesham
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £16–21
  • London, Essex → Sidlesham
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sidlesham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAccess to West Itchenor is also possible from a small pedestrian and cycle ferry from Old Bosham.
  • Go nextChichester Selsey West Itchenor for foot ferry to Bosham and harbour boat trips Bognor Regis

From Wikivoyage: Bracklesham Bay, 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

    38 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    275 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    482 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    606 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    642 km

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Around it

Next door to Sidlesham

  • Birdhamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
  • Paghamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.6 km
  • Hunstonvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.9 km
  • Donningtonvillage and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex in England, UK2.9 km
  • North Mundhamvillage and civil parish in West Sussex, England, UK3.8 km
  • South Mundhamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.7 km