Thakeham
Thakeham is a village and civil parish located north of the South Downs in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

Thakeham is a village and civil parish located north of the South Downs in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The village is situated approximately 12 miles south-west of Horsham and 11 miles north of the sea-side town of Worthing. Its nearest large village is Storrington. The parish includes the hamlets of Abingworth and Goose Green and has a land area of 1170.6 hectares.
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Worth seeing in and around Thakeham
5 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.
- 01Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Warminghurst
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a former Anglican church in the hamlet of Warminghurst in the district of Horsham, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. The present building, which is no longer used for worship, has 13th-century origins, but a church may have existed on the site in the 11th century or earlier.
900 m · church in Warminghurst, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Mary's Church, West Chiltington
St Mary's Church is the Grade I listed Anglican parish church of West Chiltington, a village in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. The 12th-century building, described as a "showpiece" and "the most attractive part" of the Wealden village, retains many features of historical and architectural interest.
2.2 km · Grade I listed church in West Chiltington, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Little Thakeham
Little Thakeham is an Arts and Crafts style, Grade I listed private house in the parish of Thakeham, near the village of Storrington, in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. Designed by architect Edwin Lutyens in 1902, the house was one of the first in which Lutyens mixed neoclassical architecture into his previously vernacular style.
1.5 km · Grade I listed building in Thakeham, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Hurston Warren
Hurston Warren is a 69.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Pulborough in West Sussex. This site has a variety of habitats, including wet and dry heath, bogs, woodland and open water.
3.8 km · site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 05Chantry Mill
Chantry Mill is a 8.7-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Storrington in West Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Thakeham
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 28 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 59 km · London Luton (LTN), 104 km
- London → Thakeham66 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £7–10
- Luton, Luton → Thakeham104 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £12–16
- London, Essex → Thakeham66 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £7–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Thakeham
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 Thakeham. 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 Thakeham
- Storringtonvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.7 km
- West Chiltingtonvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.3 km
- Ashingtonvillage and civil parish in West Sussex, United Kingdom2.5 km
- Storrington and Sullingtoncivil parish in West Sussex, England, UK3.8 km
- West Chiltington Commonvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.8 km
- Warminghurstvillage in West Sussex, England, UK800 m