Places to explore near Hampden Park (Sussex) StationHampden Park

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

2 km W

Brick tower mill restored to working order, grinding flour again on open days near the Pevensey Levels.

2.5 km NE

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

4.2 km S

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

4.5 km SW

Norman castle within Roman fort walls.

4.6 km NE

Roman shore-fort walls enclose a Norman castle, a single street of old cottages running past the medieval Mint House.

4.9 km NE · East Sussex

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

6.6 km W

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

6.6 km NW · East Sussex

A red-and-white tower stands in the surf below England's highest chalk sea cliff, built seaward after the old clifftop Belle Tout light kept vanishing in mist.

7.5 km S

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

7.7 km SW

Once a granite clifftop light above Beachy Head, decommissioned when fog hid its lamp — later moved bodily inland in 1999 as the chalk eroded beneath it.

7.9 km SW

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

8 km SW

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

8.1 km SW

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

8.6 km W

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

8.7 km W

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

8.8 km W · East Sussex

Rare moated red-brick Tudor castle.

9.2 km NE

Hands-on science exhibits set among the former Royal Greenwich Observatory's green telescope domes at Herstmonceux.

9.4 km NE

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

9.7 km W

A country park in East Sussex.

0.8 km NE

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

2.8 km SE · spans 24 counties

Estuary to sea across Kent and Sussex — Gravesend to Eastbourne over the North Downs, the deep Weald and a Beachy Head finish.

2.8 km W · East Sussex & Kent

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

3.1 km SW · West Sussex, East Sussex & Hampshire

A long shingle stretch below the seafront, good for a swim on a calm day

3.8 km S

Pevensey to Rye by way of Battle — the Norman Conquest's landing country, with carved oak sculptures marking the route.

4.4 km NE · East Sussex

Village pub in Jevington popular with Downs walkers, named Best Sussex Pub in 2024 and known for cream teas.

4.5 km W

Downland village of flint cottages and a Saxon-towered church, long tied to smuggling and claimed as the birthplace of banoffee pie.

4.5 km W · East Sussex

One of the last patches of chalk heath in Britain, where lime-loving and lime-hating plants somehow grow side by side

5.6 km W