Village in West Sussex, England

Crawley Down

Crawley Down is a village in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England.

Every way there

London → Crawley Down
43 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £5–6
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Luton, Luton → Crawley Down
88 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–15
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London, Essex → Crawley Down
43 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £5–6
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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 Crawley Down, 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 Crawley Down has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LGW), 8 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
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.

51.121°, -0.079°

There is one church, one school, and a number of social groups. It lies 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Crawley and 7 miles (11 km) east of Gatwick Airport. Crawley Down lies in the northeast corner of West Sussex, just one mile from the border with Surrey.

How locals move

Getting around Crawley Down the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

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