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Westmeston

Westmeston is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England heavily dependent in amenities on larger Ditchling to the near-immediate northwest.

Westmeston
Westmeston · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Westmeston is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England heavily dependent in amenities on larger Ditchling to the near-immediate northwest. It is four miles (6 km) south-southeast of Burgess Hill and (10 km) west of Lewes, on the northern slopes of the South Downs.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Westmeston

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
    Ditchling Beacon

    Hill in East Sussex, England, UK

    900 m · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer

    Church in Keymer, West Sussex, England, UK

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton

    Church in Mid Sussex, England, UK

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wings Place

    Country house in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, UK

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Earthship Brighton

    Sustainable building in Brighton, England

    4 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft

    Local museum in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom

    2 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Blackcap

    Hill in East Sussex, England, UK

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ditchling Unitarian Chapel

    Grade II listed church in Ditchling, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Plumpton College

    College in East Sussex, UK

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Plumpton Place

    Country house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England, UK

    2.4 km · 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.

Go there

Getting to Westmeston

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 28 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 68 km · London Luton (LTN), 109 km
Stations
Hassocks railway station, 3.8 km · Plumpton railway station, 3.7 km
  • London → Westmeston
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £6–9
  • Luton, Luton → Westmeston
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–17
  • London, Essex → Westmeston
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £6–9
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Westmeston

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.

From Wikivoyage: Brighton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    88 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    321 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    435 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    618 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    654 km

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

Around it

Next door to Westmeston

  • Ditchlingvillage in East Sussex, England, UK1.6 km
  • Falmervillage in Lewes District, East Sussex, England, UK3.1 km
  • Hassocksvillage in West Sussex, England, UK4 km
  • Streatvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, United Kingdom2 km
  • Plumptonvillage and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England2.2 km
  • Keymervillage in West Sussex, United Kingdom2.8 km