Fairlight Glen

#4149 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Fairlight Glen lies about 2 miles east of the fishing port of Hastings and 1.5 miles west of the small village of Fairlight Cove on the East Sussex coast. It is a wooded area forming part of the Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve and leading down to Covehurst Bay. This is a naturist beach, but is shared by non-naturist visitors. The name Covehurst Bay is not normally used for the beach, but is marked on OS maps. ()

Coordinates: 50°52'12"N, 0°38'42"E

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Fairlight Glen – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hastings Contemporary, Priory Meadow Shopping Centre, Hastings Castle, Hastings Fishermen's Museum.

2.5 miSW
Museum, Art gallery, Shopping
Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
63 min walk • The Hastings Contemporary is a museum of contemporary British art located on The Stade in Hastings, East Sussex and is a not for profit organisation. The gallery opened in March 2012 as the Jerwood Gallery and cost £4m to build.
2.9 miW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Priory Meadow Shopping Centre, Hastings
75 min walk • Priory Meadow Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Hastings, East Sussex, England. The centre was opened in 1997 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
2.8 miW
Ruined 11th-century Norman fortress
Hastings Castle, Hastings
71 min walk • Hastings Castle is a keep and bailey castle ruin situated in the town of Hastings, East Sussex. It overlooks the English Channel, into which large parts of the castle have fallen over the years.
2.4 miSW
Museum, Specialty museum, Maritime museum
Hastings Fishermen's Museum, Hastings
61 min walk • Hastings Fishermen's Museum is a museum dedicated to the fishing industry and maritime history of Hastings, a seaside town in East Sussex, England.
2.4 miSW
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Shipwreck Museum, Hastings
61 min walk • The Shipwreck Museum is an independent charitable museum in the historic Old Town of Hastings, UK. The museum has artefacts from many ships wrecked in the English Channel from the Goodwin Sands in Kent to Pevensey Bay in East Sussex, including the Amsterdam, a Dutch East Indiaman of 1749, and the Anne of 1690, a warship of Charles II.
2.9 miW
Park
St Helen's Wood, Hastings
75 min walk • St Helen's Wood is a 34.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Hastings in East Sussex. It is owned and managed by the St Helens Park Preservation Society. The wood has many broad-leaved helleborines. There are also areas of grassland which are managed by horse grazing. Meadow flowers include red bartsia and green-winged orchids.
2.5 miSW
Beach
The Stade, Hastings
64 min walk • The Stade is a shingle beach in Hastings Old Town, Hastings, East Sussex, England. It has been used for beaching boats for more than a thousand years. It is now home to Europe's largest fleet of beach-launched fishing boats.
1.7 miW
Park
Speckled Wood, Hastings
44 min walk • Speckled Wood is a 12.7-acre woodland and park in Ore Village in the Ore Valley, Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom. The woodland park consists of woodland trails and clearings. The woodland has steep sixty-degree sides and is a wet woodland. The wood is a habitat to a wealth of mammals, birds and invertebrates.
2.3 miW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St Mary Star of the Sea Church, Hastings
60 min walk • St Mary Star of the Sea Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Hastings, East Sussex, England. It was built from 1882 to 1883 and designed by Basil Champneys. It is situated on the High Street, backing onto The Bourne in the Old Town. It was founded by the Pallottines and is a Grade II listed building.
1.6 miW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
Christ Church, Hastings
42 min walk • Christ Church is an Anglican church in the Ore area of the town and borough of Hastings, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex. It is one of three Anglican churches with this dedication in the borough.
0.8 miW
Park
Hastings Country Park, Hastings
22 min walk • Hastings Country Park was formed in 1974 and covers 345 hectares east of Hastings in England. Sandstone cliffs, glens covered with gorse and trees, footpaths, nature trails, picnic areas and ample car parking are some of the features at the country park.