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Steyning

Steyning is a town and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England.

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The place

Steyning is a town and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It is located at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, four miles north of the coastal town of Shoreham-by-Sea.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Steyning

10 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
    South Downs National Park

    The South Downs National Park is England's newest national park, designated on 31 March 2010. The park, covering an area of 1,627 square kilometres in southern England, stretches for 140 kilometres from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east, through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex.

    3.8 km · national park in South East England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bramber Castle

    Bramber Castle is the ruins of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, formerly the caput of the large feudal barony of Bramber long held by the Braose family. It is situated in the village of Bramber, West Sussex, near the town of Steyning, overlooking the River Adur.

    900 m · Norman castle in Bamber, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cissbury Ring

    Cissbury Ring is an 84.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Worthing in West Sussex. It is owned by the National Trust and is designated a Scheduled monument for its Neolithic flint mine and Iron Age hillfort.

    4.9 km · hill fort in West Sussex, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints Church, Buncton

    All Saints Church is an Anglican church in the hamlet of Buncton in the district of Horsham, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Built in the 11th or 12th century as a small chapel of ease to a nearby parish church, and hardly changed or restored since, the stone chapel stands behind a "delightful...

    4.3 km · church in Buncton, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lancing Ring

    Lancing Ring is a 29.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Lancing in West Sussex. It is owned and managed by Adur District Council.

    4.4 km · hill in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Parish Church of St James, Ashurst

    St James's Church is a Church of England parish church in Ashurst, West Sussex. The church is a grade I listed building and it dates from the early 12th century.

    5.3 km · church in Ashurst, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting

    The Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, also known as St Mary the Virgin Church and St Mary's Church, is the Church of England parish church of Sompting in the Adur district of West Sussex. It stands on a rural lane north of the urban area that now surrounds the village, and retains much 11th- and 12th-century structure.

    5.6 km · church in Adur, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Coombes Church

    Coombes Church is a Church of England parish church in the rural hamlet of Coombes in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. It has served the rural parish, northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea and next to the River Adur, since the 11th century.

    3.2 km · church in Adur, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St James the Less Church, Lancing

    St James the Less Church is the Anglican parish church of Lancing with Coombes, an ancient village which has been absorbed into the modern town of Lancing in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded in the 12th century in the most northerly of the three settlements in Lancing parish, which has Saxon origins.

    5.5 km · church in Adur, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Nicolas' Church, Shoreham-by-Sea

    St Nicolas Church is an Anglican church in Old Shoreham, an ancient inland settlement that is now part of the town of Shoreham-by-Sea in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded on a riverside site by Anglo-Saxons at the start of the 10th century, possibly on the site of a 5th-century predecessor.

    5.9 km · church in Shoreham-by-Sea, 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Church of St Andrew and St Cuthman

    A large parish church with Saxon origins, associated with the legend of St Cuthman.

  2. 02
    Bramber Castle

    Ruins of a Norman castle just outside town, offering views over the Adur Valley.

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

Go there

Getting to Steyning

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 31 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 66 km · London Luton (LTN), 110 km
Stations
Bramber railway station, 1.1 km · Steyning railway station, 500 m · Henfield railway station, 5.8 km
  • London → Steyning
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Steyning
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–17
  • London, Essex → Steyning
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £8–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Steyning

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries to Newhaven and Portsmouth, and the London airports (especially Gatwick) are handy for overseas visitors.
  • Go nextOr you could head south to Newhaven and catch a ferry to Dieppe in France.

From Wikivoyage: South Downs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    72 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    449 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    612 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    648 km

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Around it

Next door to Steyning

  • Brambervillage in West Sussex, England, UK1.1 km
  • Coombesvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3 km
  • Upper Beedingvillage in West Sussex, England, UK1.7 km
  • Washingtonvillage and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, UK5.8 km
  • Wistonvillage in West Sussex, England4.6 km
  • Findonvillage in West Sussex, England, UK5.9 km