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Sompting

Sompting is a village and civil parish in the coastal Adur District of West Sussex, England between Lancing and Worthing.

Sompting
Sompting · Antiquary
The place

Sompting is a village and civil parish in the coastal Adur District of West Sussex, England between Lancing and Worthing. It is half grassland slopes and half developed plain at the foot of the South Downs National Park. Twentieth-century estates dovetail into those of slightly larger Lancing.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Marlipins Museum

    A historical museum covering the area from prehistoric to medieval times in a 12th- to early 13th-century Grade II listed building.

  2. 02
    Sompting Church

From Wikivoyage: Sompting, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Shoreham Beach

    A pebble beach, but quite pleasant in sunny weather.

From Wikivoyage: Sompting, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Sompting

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 37 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 72 km · London Luton (LTN), 116 km
  • London → Sompting
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Sompting
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £15–20
  • London, Essex → Sompting
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sompting

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundOn-road and off-road cycle routes to, from and across the town have been improved.

From Wikivoyage: Littlehampton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-12.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    70 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    454 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    617 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    653 km

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