Town in West Sussex, England

Petworth

Petworth is a town and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.

Every way there

London → Petworth
67 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £8–10
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Luton, Luton → Petworth
100 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £11–15
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London, Essex → Petworth
67 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £8–10
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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 Petworth, 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 Petworth has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LGW), 35 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 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.

50.986°, -0.609°

It is located at the junction of the A272 east–west road from Heathfield to Winchester and the A283 Milford to Shoreham-by-Sea road.

How locals move

Getting around Petworth the local way

Get inFerries to Newhaven and Portsmouth, and the London airports (especially Gatwick) are handy for overseas visitors.
Go nextOr you could head south to Newhaven and catch a ferry to Dieppe in France.

From Wikivoyage: South Downs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

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