Local government district in West Sussex, England

Adur

Adur is a local government district in West Sussex, England.

Every way there

London → Adur
75 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £8–11
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Luton, Luton → Adur
115 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £15–19
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London, Essex → Adur
75 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £8–11
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Adur, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Adur has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LGW), 36 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
YFerriesNewhaven Ferry Port, 23 km, DFDS Seaways; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

50.833°, -0.269°

It is named after the River Adur which flows through the area. The council is based in the town of Shoreham-by-Sea, and the district also contains the town of Southwick, the large village of Lancing and a modest rural hinterland inland. The district had a population of 64,626 at the 2021 census.

How locals move

Getting around Adur the local way

Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.

From Wikivoyage: Brighton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Acabashi (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.