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South Ambersham

South Ambersham is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Graffham, in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England.

The place

South Ambersham is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Graffham, in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies 0.7 miles (1.2 km) south of the A272 road and 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Midhurst. Until 1844 South Ambersham was a detached part of Hampshire and was a tithing of the parish of Steep, in 1844 it became a separate civil parish, until 1972 when it was abolished and merged with Graffham. In 1961 the parish had a population of 117.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around South Ambersham

6 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
    Queen Elizabeth Oak

    The Queen Elizabeth Oak is a large sessile oak tree in Cowdray Park near the village of Lodsworth in the Western Weald, West Sussex, England. It lies within the South Downs National Park.

    2 km · tree in Cowdray Park, West Sussex, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cowdray House

    Cowdray House consists of the ruins of one of England's great Tudor houses, architecturally comparable to many of the great palaces and country houses of that time. It is situated in the parish of Easebourne, just east of Midhurst, West Sussex standing on the north bank of the River Rother.

    2.7 km · ruins of one of England's great houses, outside the West Sussex town of Midhurst · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cowdray Park

    The park lies near Easebourne, West Sussex, in the South Downs National Park. The estate belongs to Viscount Cowdray, whose family have owned it since 1909.

    1.7 km · country house and polo park in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Midhurst Brickworks

    Midhurst Brickworks is a former brickworks situated to the south-west of Midhurst, West Sussex in England. The works were sited close to the Midhurst Common railway station on the Midhurst to Petersfield railway line.

    4 km · historical industrial site in England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ambersham Common

    Ambersham Common is a 141.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Midhurst in West Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2.

    1.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Pitshill

    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.

    3.9 km · country house in Tillington, West Sussex, England, 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 South Ambersham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 40 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km · London Luton (LTN), 102 km
Stations
Midhurst railway station, 3.3 km · Midhurst (LSWR) railway station, 3.8 km · Selham railway station, 1.7 km
  • London → South Ambersham
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → South Ambersham
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £11–15
  • London, Essex → South Ambersham
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for South Ambersham

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    54 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    279 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    464 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    590 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    626 km

If you know how people move in South Ambersham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to South Ambersham

South Ambersham is 57 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Midhursttown in West Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
  • Graffhamvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.3 km
  • Easebournevillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.9 km
  • West Lavingtonvillage and civil parish in West Sussex, England, UK2.4 km
  • Heyshottvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.2 km
  • Lodsworthvillage and civil parish in West Sussex, England, UK2.9 km