Places to explore near Polegate StationPolegate

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

0.6 km SW

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

3.6 km W · East Sussex

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

3.7 km E

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

4.2 km W

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

5.8 km W

Norman castle within Roman fort walls.

6.2 km E

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

6.4 km W

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

6.4 km W · East Sussex

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

6.5 km E · East Sussex

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

6.6 km S

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

6.9 km SW

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

7.6 km SW

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

8.1 km SW

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

8.5 km SW

Rare moated red-brick Tudor castle.

8.5 km NE

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

8.9 km NE

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

9.2 km NE

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 S

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

9.4 km W

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.

9.5 km S

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.

9.7 km S

Largest post mill in Sussex, lottery-restored above Herstmonceux with its roundhouse, sweeps and machinery rebuilt.

9.9 km NE

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

2.3 km SW · East Sussex & Kent

A country park in East Sussex.

2.8 km SE

The down that rises behind the Long Man of Wilmington, a brief climb with views that stretch out over the Weald

3.6 km W

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

3.7 km SW

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

3.8 km S · West Sussex, East Sussex & Hampshire

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

3.9 km SW · East Sussex

Ornamental garden, wildflower meadow and ancient bluebell wood share one farm near the Cuckmere valley.

4.2 km NW

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

4.3 km SW

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

4.7 km E · East Sussex