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

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.
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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.
- 01South 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 - 02Bramber 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 - 03Cissbury 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 - 04All 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 - 05Lancing 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 - 06The 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 - 07Church 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 - 08Coombes 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 - 09St 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 - 10St 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
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Church of St Andrew and St Cuthman
A large parish church with Saxon origins, associated with the legend of St Cuthman.
- 02Bramber 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.
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 → Steyning70 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £8–10
- Luton, Luton → Steyning111 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–17
- London, Essex → Steyning70 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £8–10
- 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 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.
- 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.
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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