Village and parish in West Sussex, England

Southwater

Southwater is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, with a population of roughly 10,000.

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Every way there

London → Southwater
56 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £6–8
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Luton, Luton → Southwater
95 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £11–15
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London, Essex → Southwater
56 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £6–8
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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 Southwater, 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 Southwater has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LGW), 18 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.

51.024°, -0.353°

It is administered within Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council.

How locals move

Getting around Southwater 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: User:Hassocks5489 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.