Places to explore near Bishopstone StationBishopstone

A chalk ridge rolling from Winchester to the sea cliffs at Beachy Head.

0.3 km N

Ruins of a Georgian tide-mill village beside the shingle, reached along the coast path east of Newhaven.

0.9 km W

Chalk cliffs and dry valleys sheared off by the sea, linked by the switchback path between Seven Sisters and Beachy Head

2.5 km SE

Beachy Head's chalk face, the highest in Britain, with a lighthouse at its foot and downland walking either side

2.6 km SE

Where the Cuckmere winds down to a shingle beach, with the Seven Sisters cliffs rising beyond

4.2 km E

A prancing white horse cut in a single night in 1924, on Hindover Hill above the Cuckmere valley.

4.3 km E

A medieval hall house in Alfriston that was the very first building the National Trust ever bought

6 km NE

Cuckmere-valley village with a green called the Tye, medieval timbered inns and a thatched Clergy House below the bare South Downs.

6 km NE · East Sussex

The Bloomsbury Group's Sussex home below Firle Beacon, its rooms and walled garden painted by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

7.3 km N

Small countryside zoo near Alfriston with a narrow-gauge train, a long-running family day out.

7.4 km NE

Gage estate village under Firle Beacon, with a John Piper window in the church and Bloomsbury painters in the churchyard

7.4 km N · East Sussex

The white chalk waves of the Seven Sisters, falling to the Channel.

7.8 km E

A weatherboarded cottage by the River Ouse, home to Virginia and Leonard Woolf from 1919

8 km NW

A 70-metre outline figure holding a staff in each hand, cut into Windover Hill; one of only two human chalk figures in Britain.

8.1 km NE

A Grade II* Art Deco lido of 1938 shaped like an ocean liner, saved by a community campaign and reopened in 2017.

9.1 km W

Downland village at the foot of the Long Man hill figure, with a ruined Benedictine priory and an ancient churchyard yew.

9.1 km NE · East Sussex

A shingle beach at the foot of the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs, reached by a steel staircase and looked after by the National Trust

9.3 km SE

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

0.2 km SW · spans 24 counties

From East Croydon station to the sea at Newhaven, named for the rambling club founded in a crowded train's guard's van in 1965.

0.2 km SW · spans 4 counties

A coastal swimming spot with excellent water quality.

1.3 km SE

One of England's largest sparkling-wine estates, with a cellar door, tasting rooms and a self-guided walk through the vines.

4 km NE

A National Trust place in East Sussex.

4.2 km E

A National Trust place in East Sussex.

4.4 km E

Round Norman tower above the Ouse, crowned by a gilded fish weathervane that Kipling wrote of as a dolphin.

4.7 km NW

A hundred miles of chalk ridge from Winchester to the sea at Eastbourne, walkable in a week.

5 km E · West Sussex, East Sussex & Hampshire