Village on East Sussex/Kent border, England

Groombridge

Groombridge is a village of about 1,600 people.

Every way there

London → Groombridge
49 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £6–9
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London, Essex → Groombridge
49 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £6–9
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Luton, Luton → Groombridge
95 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £12–16
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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 Groombridge, 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 Groombridge has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LGW), 26 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: Royal Tunbridge Wells, 6 km.

51.112°, 0.185°

It straddles the border between Kent and East Sussex, in England. The nearest large town is Royal Tunbridge Wells, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) away by road.

How locals move

Getting around Groombridge 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: Charles Latham (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.