South Chailey
Chailey is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.
Chailey is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. It is located 7 miles north of Lewes, on the A272 road from Winchester to Canterbury. The Prime Meridian passes just to the east of Chailey.
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Worth seeing in and around South Chailey
2 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.
- 01Scaynes Hill SSSI
Scaynes Hill is a 0.04-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Newick in East Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 02Zion Chapel, Newick
Zion Chapel is a former Strict Baptist place of worship in the village of Newick in Lewes District, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex. The tiny building was opened for worship in 1834 in a part of Sussex which was a hotbed of Protestant Nonconformism, and remained as one of three places of worship in the small Wealden village until 2001, when it was sold for conversion to houses.
2.1 km · grade II listed church in Newick, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to South Chailey
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 24 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · London Stansted (STN), 104 km
- Stations
- Newick and Chailey railway station, 1.2 km
- London → South Chailey64 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £7–9
- London, Essex → South Chailey64 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → South Chailey108 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for South Chailey
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 Chailey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundScale 1:25,000 (4 cm:1 km, 2½ in:1 mi) would be fine, costing usually under £8.00 Cycling is very limited on Ashdown Forest land to the few public bridleways, although several groups are petitioning for more open access for off-road cycling however it is fully allowed on roads.
- Go nextEastbourne Petersfield South Downs Way, a popular walking path.
From Wikivoyage: Ashdown Forest, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in South Chailey – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to South Chailey
- Newickvillage in East Sussex, England, UK3.1 km
- North Chaileyvillage in East Sussex, England, UK1.5 km