Places to explore near Crawley

Wooded ridges, sunken lanes and deep stream valleys across the old iron country of the south-east

2.6 km S

Romantic garden around a picturesque ruined house.

7 km S

Kew's country garden and Millennium Seed Bank.

8.2 km SE

An Elizabethan manor hotel with famous gardens deep in the Sussex Weald.

9.4 km E

Elegant 37-arch railway viaduct of 1841 striding across the Ouse valley near Balcombe, celebrated for the tunnel effect through its piers.

10 km SE

Thirteen garden rooms filled with plant-hunters' finds around an Elizabethan mansion.

10.7 km SE

Post mill of 1665 on Outwood common, the oldest working windmill in England, still grinding on open days.

10.9 km NE

Where Sir Edmund Loder bred his famous Loderi rhododendrons, with seven lakes and wild wallabies.

11.2 km SW

Wooded ridges and heathy commons an hour from London, with gentle hills and paths made for an easy day out

11.8 km NW

Chef's-table dining at a Victorian country-house hotel on the South Downs' northern edge.

12.1 km SW

Heathland ridges, the real Winnie-the-Pooh country.

12.9 km E

A long village street of timber-framed houses climbs from a pond to the church, often called the finest in Sussex.

13.1 km SE · West Sussex

An old railway line between East Grinstead and Groombridge turned into a flat, easy-going walking and cycling trail through the Weald

13.1 km E

White post mill on Reigate Heath golf course, unique in England for having a working chapel fitted inside its roundhouse.

14.2 km N

Gothic folly of 1765 crowning Leith Hill, its turret taking the hill past 1,000 feet for a view said to reach the sea.

14.7 km NW

Highest point in south-east England, tower-topped.

14.7 km NW

Tall brick tower mill on Wray Common east of Reigate, keeping its cap and sails as a converted landmark.

14.8 km N

Pilgrim country: orchards, vineyards and chalk downs between Farnham and the white cliffs of Dover.

15.8 km N · Kent & Surrey

Thomas Hope's early-1800s pleasure ground above Dorking, restored as a free walking trail with a mausoleum.

15.9 km NW

North Downs escarpment above Reigate with a domed Edwardian drinking fountain and a long view south from the chalk grassland.

16.2 km N

Sweeping chalk viewpoint over the Weald.

16.6 km NW

Greensand summit crowned by an Iron Age hillfort, with a broad southward view over the Weald from a hilltop bench.

17.8 km NW

A scrap of Wealden common that never got enclosed or built on, now a country park of heath, grass and ponds

17.9 km S

One of England's largest single-estate vineyards, its vines sweeping over the chalk slopes just outside Dorking.

18.2 km NW

Standard-gauge steam railway from Sheffield Park to East Grinstead, with a large collection of preserved locomotives.

18.3 km SE

White smock mill on Chailey Common, restored as a landmark and holding a small rural-life collection on summer days.

19 km SE

Capability Brown lakes ablaze in autumn.

19.1 km SE

Hilaire Belloc's white smock mill, King's Mill, standing beside his former home at Shipley; a landmark on the Low Weald.

19.2 km SW

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

19.3 km S

Britain's only working open-trestle post mill, restored on the edge of Ashdown Forest and still turning on open days.

19.4 km SE

A low-beamed, brick-floored bar with no counter where ale is served through a stable-door hatch from the cellar.

19.5 km W

High point of the Hurtwood greensand ridge above Ewhurst, looking south across the Weald from open heath.

19.6 km W

Heathland reserve of gorse, birch and Scots pine, good for redstart and crossbill on the Ashdown fringe.

19.8 km E

The wooden bridge where A. A. Milne set Poohsticks, reached by a short walk from Chuck Hatch.

20.1 km E

Tapering brick tower mill on the greensand ridge near Pitch Hill, a landmark for walkers though now a private house.

20.2 km W

Edwardian villa with sweeping Downs views.

20.4 km NW

Chalk hills, ancient woods and orchards, ending in the white cliffs above the Channel

20.6 km NE

Village museum tracing Eric Gill and the Guild of craftsmen, housed in a former school by the pond.

21.7 km S

Arts-and-crafts village of Tudor houses under Ditchling Beacon, once home to Eric Gill and the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic.

21.8 km S · East Sussex

Grade I Norman church at the centre of Shere, keeping the cell of a medieval anchoress built into its north wall.

22.6 km NW

Moated childhood home of Anne Boleyn.

22.8 km E

Surrey Hills village on the Tillingbourne, its ford and timbered cottages so picture-book they stand in for storybook England on film.

23.1 km NW · Surrey

Estate below the North Downs escarpment with a restored Victorian walled kitchen garden, formal terraces and lakes.

23.2 km NE

A pair of restored windmills on the Downs above Clayton; Jill, a white post mill, still grinds flour on open days.

23.2 km S

Restored stretch of the Wey and Arun Canal at Loxwood, with a free towpath and electric boat trips running spring to autumn.

23.8 km W

Churchill's home with Weald-facing gardens.

24 km NE

Clear spring-fed pool below the North Downs at Albury, its still green water wrapped in legend and box woodland.

24.2 km NW

Single street of Tudor houses owned almost whole by the National Trust, beside a moated mock castle.

24.8 km E · Kent

A wooded greensand ridge of National Trust paths near Westerham, with views south over the Weald.

24.9 km NE

A country park in West Sussex.

2.9 km SW

One of England's most complete Saxon churches, cruciform in plan with a soaring chancel arch and pilaster strips.

3.2 km E

A country park in West Sussex.

4.4 km E

Round inland Sussex on the old county boundary from Emsworth to Rye — nearly 150 miles of quiet country for the busy South East.

5.2 km N · spans 5 counties

A Wealden woodland and water garden holding the National Collection of stewartia.

5.7 km S

A National Trust place in Surrey.

6.1 km NW

Horsham to Rye through the High Weald's ridge villages and hammer ponds — iron country, worked for two thousand years.

6.7 km S · West Sussex, Kent & East Sussex

A National Trust place in West Sussex.

8 km E