West Hoathly
West Hoathly is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south west of East Grinstead.
West Hoathly is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south west of East Grinstead. In the 2001 census 2,121 people, of whom 1,150 were economically active, lived in 813 households. At the 2011 Census the population increased to 2,181. The parish, which has a land area of 2,139 hectares, includes the hamlets of Highbrook, Selsfield Common and Sharpthorne. The mostly rural parish is centred on West Hoathly village, an ancient hilltop settlement in the High Weald between the North and South Downs.
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Worth seeing in and around West Hoathly
9 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.
- 01Wakehurst
Kew Wakehurst, previously known as Wakehurst and Wakehurst Place, is a house and botanic gardens in West Sussex, England, owned by the National Trust but used and managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It is near Ardingly, West Sussex in the High Weald, and comprises a late 16th-century mansion, a mainly 20th-century garden and, in a modern building, Kew's Millennium Seed Bank.
2.9 km · house and botanic gardens in Ardingly, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Saint Hill Manor
Saint Hill Manor is a Grade II listed country house at Saint Hill Green, near East Grinstead in West Sussex, England. It was constructed in 1792 and had several notable owners before being purchased by L. Ron Hubbard and becoming the British headquarters of Church of Scientology.
3.4 km · country house in Saint Hill Green, East Grinstead, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly
St Margaret's Church is an Anglican church in the village of West Hoathly in Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. By the late 11th century, a simple single-room stone building existed on the high, open ridge upon which the village developed.
400 m · church in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04All Saints Church
All Saints Church is an Anglican church in the hamlet of Highbrook in Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. The tiny settlement, in the parish of West Hoathly, was distant from the parish church in that village; two wealthy sisters accordingly funded the construction of a new church to serve the local population.
2.8 km · church in Highbrook, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Weir Wood Reservoir
Weir Wood Reservoir is a 153.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Forest Row in East Sussex. It is in High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and an area of 32.6 hectares is a Local Nature Reserve which is owned by Southern Water and managed by East Sussex County Council and Southern Water.
3.7 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Gravetye Manor
Gravetye Manor is a manor house located near East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. The former home of landscape gardener William Robinson, it is now a hotel and restaurant holding, in 2020, one star in the Michelin Guide, and is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England, its gardens are also Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
1.1 km · manor house, restaurant and gardens in West Hoathly, West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Priest House
The Priest House is a Grade II* listed, 15th-century timber-framed hall house in the centre of West Hoathly, in West Sussex, England. It is close to The Cat Inn and St Margaret's Church.
500 m · historical house and museum in Sussex, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Standen
Standen is an Arts and Crafts house located to the south of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. The house and its surrounding gardens belong to the National Trust and are open to the public.
3.6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Mid Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09West Hoathly SSSI
West Hoathly SSSI is a 0.7-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Sharpthorne in West Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
1.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in West Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to West Hoathly
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 12 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 52 km · London Luton (LTN), 91 km
- Stations
- Horsted Keynes railway station, 3.8 km · Kingscote railway station, 2.5 km
- London → West Hoathly48 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £5–7
- Luton, Luton → West Hoathly93 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–15
- London, Essex → West Hoathly48 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £5–7
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No local-transport research exists yet for West Hoathly
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 Hoathly. 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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Next door to West Hoathly
West Hoathly is 48 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ardinglyvillage in West Sussex, England, UK4 km
- Turners Hillvillage and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England3.5 km
- Sharpthornevillage in West Sussex, England, UK1 km
- Saint Hill Greenvillage in West Sussex, England, UK3.3 km