Places to explore near Southease - Piddinghoe RoadSouthease

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

1.1 km N

County town of steep twittens and flint walls, a Norman castle above, Cluniac priory ruins below and Tom Paine's old house.

5 km N · East Sussex

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

5.2 km E · East Sussex

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

5.3 km SW

A black-tarred smock mill on the cliff-top down above Rottingdean, long the village emblem.

6.3 km SW

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

6.4 km SE

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

7 km E

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

8.2 km SE

Chalk grassland local nature reserve on Brighton's eastern edge, home to a rare Neolithic causewayed camp and wide views over the city.

9.1 km W

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

9.5 km SE

A restored walled garden in Stanmer Park, run as a horticultural training ground with ornamental borders, glasshouses and a kitchen plot. Free entry.

9.7 km NW

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

9.9 km SE

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

10 km E · East Sussex

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

0 km NE · West Sussex, East Sussex & Hampshire

One of only three Sussex churches with a round Norman tower, standing above the Ouse valley.

0.1 km E

Flint-and-thatch village in the Ouse valley below the Downs, home to Virginia Woolf's Monk's House with its writing lodge and garden.

0.7 km NW · East Sussex

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

2.6 km SE

Forty-seven hectares of unimproved chalk grassland on the Downs between Lewes and Brighton, thick with wildflowers in summer

4.3 km W

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

4.6 km SE · 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.

4.6 km SE · spans 4 counties

Downland estate village of brick-and-flint cottages below Mount Caburn, with Glynde Place above and Glyndebourne's opera house next door.

5 km NE · East Sussex

An Elizabethan manor under the downs, with grounds important enough to be registered in their own right

5.6 km NE