Willingdon and Jevington
Willingdon and Jevington is a civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.
Willingdon and Jevington is a civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. The two villages lie one mile (1.6 km) south of Polegate. Willingdon is part of the built-up area which is Eastbourne, and lies on the main A22 road, whilst Jevington is on a minor road leading to Friston. In 2011 the parish had a population of 7440. The civil parish was formed on 1 April 1999 from "Jevington" and "Willingdon" parishes. Under the name of Willingdon it is also an electoral ward.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Willingdon and Jevington
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.
- 01The Parish Church of Saint Peter
The Church of St. Peter ad Vincula is a parish church in Folkington, East Sussex dating from the 13th century.
3.7 km · church in Folkington, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Our Lady of Ransom Church, Eastbourne
Our Lady of Ransom Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Eastbourne, East Sussex. It was founded as a mission in 1869, built from 1900 to 1903, and had extensions completed in 1926.
4 km · church building in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St George's Church
St George's Church is a Roman Catholic church of the parish of Hailsham and Polegate serving the town of Polegate in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. Consideration was first given to "bringing the Mass to Polegate" in the late 19th century, when it was a rapidly growing village within the vast Catholic parish of the seaside resort of Eastbourne to the south.
2.4 km · church in Polegate, East Sussex, England · Wikipedia - 04The Saffrons
The Saffrons is a multi-purpose sports ground in Eastbourne, East Sussex. The ground is home to Eastbourne Cricket Club, Eastbourne Town Football Club, Eastbourne Hockey Club and Compton Croquet Club.
3.9 km · multi-purpose sports ground in Eastbourne, East Sussex · Wikipedia - 05East Sussex College
East Sussex College or East Sussex College Group is the largest higher education college in East Sussex, providing education and training from foundation to degree level. The college educates almost half of the county's young people and over 8,000 adults each year at campuses in Lewes, Eastbourne, Hastings and Newhaven, and in the workplace.
1.5 km · college in East Sussex, UK · Wikipedia - 06The Hoo
The Hoo is a Neoclassical country house in Willingdon, in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1902 for Alexander Wedderburn, a wealthy lawyer.
500 m · Grade I listed house in Willingdon, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Eastbourne Town Hall
Eastbourne Town Hall is a municipal building in Grove Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Eastbourne Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3.9 km · town hall in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08South Street Free Church
South Street Free Church is a church in the centre of Eastbourne, a town and seaside resort in the English county of East Sussex. Originally Congregational, it is now aligned to the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion—a small group of Evangelical churches founded by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon during the 18th-century Evangelical Revival.
4 km · church building in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Folkington Manor
Folkington Manor is a grade II* listed country house situated in the village of Folkington two miles west of Polegate, East Sussex, England.
3.6 km · country house in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Folkington Reservoir
Folkington Reservoir is a 5.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Polegate in East Sussex. The banks of the reservoir support a rich chalk grassland flora including kidney vetch, horseshoe vetch, pyramidal orchid, fragrant orchid and the rare and protected hairy mallow.
3 km · covered reservoir in East Sussex, England, UK · 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.
Getting to Willingdon and Jevington
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 50 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 90 km · London Stansted (STN), 121 km
- Stations
- Eastbourne railway station, 3.7 km · Polegate railway station, 2.5 km · Hampden Park railway station, 1.4 km
- London → Willingdon and Jevington83 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £10–13
- London, Essex → Willingdon and Jevington83 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Willingdon and Jevington128 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £16–22
- 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 Willingdon and Jevington
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 Willingdon and Jevington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe Cuckoo Trail a cycle path from Eastbourne to Heathfield through the Sussex Weald Catch a ferry to Dieppe from the nearby town of Newhaven.
From Wikivoyage: Eastbourne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 01111 km
- 02348 km
- 03424 km
- 04641 km
- 05677 km
If you know how people move in Willingdon and Jevington – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Willingdon and Jevington
- Polegatetown and civil parish in East Sussex, United Kingdom2.6 km
- Folkingtonvillage in East Sussex, England3.7 km
- Langneyvillage in East Sussex, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Stone Crossvillage in East Sussex, England, UK2.9 km