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West Grinstead

West Grinstead is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

West Grinstead
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The place

West Grinstead is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies just off the B2135 road four miles (6.3 km) northwest from Henfield. It is within the ancient division of the Rape of Bramber.

The western River Adur flows through the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Grinstead

7 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
    Knepp Castle

    The medieval Knepp Castle is to the west of the village of West Grinstead, in the parish of Shipley, West Sussex, England near the River Adur and the A24. The castle was probably founded by the Braose family in the 12th century.

    800 m · castle ruin and scheduled monument in Shipley, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster

    St Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, is the only post-Reformation Carthusian monastery in the United Kingdom. It is located in the parish of Cowfold, West Sussex, England.

    3.5 km · monastery in Cowfold, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Shrine Church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Francis

    The Church of Our Lady of Consolation and Saint Francis is a Roman Catholic parish church and shrine in West Grinstead, in West Sussex. It was built from 1875 to 1876, with additions made to the church in 1896 and 1964.

    700 m · Roman Catholic diocesan shrine and parish church in West Grinstead, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Baybridge Canal

    The Baybridge Canal was a short canal built entirely within the parish of West Grinstead in the English county of Sussex. It opened in 1826, and closed in 1875.

    500 m · canal in the UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parish Church of St George

    St George's Church is an Anglican church in West Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester, occupying a rural position in the Sussex Weald by the River Adur.

    100 m · church in West Grinstead, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Shipley

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican church in the village of Shipley, in West Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed church in Shipley, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Partridge Green

    St Michael and All Angels Church is a late nineteenth-century church in the settlement of Partridge Green in the parish of West Grinstead in West Sussex. It was built to cater for the then growing population of the village.

    2.2 km · church in United Kingdom · 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 West Grinstead

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 22 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 56 km · London Luton (LTN), 100 km
Stations
West Grinstead railway station, 2.2 km · Partridge Green railway station, 2.6 km
  • London → West Grinstead
    61 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → West Grinstead
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–15
  • London, Essex → West Grinstead
    61 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £7–9
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Grinstead

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThere are many possible day trips from Horsham, here are some suggestions: Leith Hill and the Surrey Hills, 20 minutes north-northwest via the A24 and B2126, one of the most beautiful stretches of the North Downs, with the highest point in south east England.

From Wikivoyage: Horsham (West Sussex), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    75 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    444 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    603 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    639 km

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

Around it

Next door to West Grinstead

  • Shipleyvillage and civil parish in Horsham District, West Sussex, England, UK2.9 km
  • Shermanburyvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.7 km
  • Partridge Greenvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.4 km
  • Dial Postvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2 km
  • Littleworthvillage in West Sussex, England, UK2.1 km
  • Bines Greenhamlet in West Sussex, England, UK3.7 km