Village and civil parish in West Sussex, England

Balcombe

Balcombe is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

Every way there

London → Balcombe
50 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £5–7
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Luton, Luton → Balcombe
94 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–15
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London, Essex → Balcombe
50 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £5–7
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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 Balcombe, 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 Balcombe has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LGW), 11 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
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. Nearest place with more: Crawley, 7 km.

51.057°, -0.137°

It lies 31 miles (50 km) south of London, 16 miles (26 km) north of Brighton, and 32 miles (51 km) east-northeast of the county town of Chichester. Nearby towns include Crawley to the northwest and Haywards Heath to the south-southeast.

How locals move

Getting around Balcombe the local way

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. Last edited 2026-05.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: 1010 Climate Action (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.