Selwyns Wood, High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Name: Selwyns Wood
Address: High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, United Kingdom

#28 among attractions in High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

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Selwyns Wood is a 11-hectare nature reserve west of Heathfield in Sussex. It is managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust. ()

Elevation: 322 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 50°57'47"N, 0°13'10"E

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High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty United Kingdom

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Selwyns Wood – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum, Cuckoo Trail, Uckfield Baptist Church, New Mill.

5.4 miSW
Specialty museum, Nature and wildlife, Park
Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum, Lewes
139 min walk • The Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum was a visitor attraction in Halland, East Sussex, England. As of October 2018, it is closed to the public.
5.1 miS
Hiking, Hiking trail
Cuckoo Trail
129 min walk • The Cuckoo Trail is a 14-mile footpath and cycleway which runs from Hampden Park to Heathfield in East Sussex. It passes through the towns of Polegate and Hailsham, as well as the villages of Hellingly and Horam.
5.3 miW
Church
Uckfield Baptist Church, Uckfield
135 min walk • Uckfield Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation based in the town of Uckfield in East Sussex, England.
0.8 miN
Windmill
New Mill, Cross-in-Hand
20 min walk • New Mill is a Grade II* listed post mill at Cross in Hand near Heathfield, East Sussex, England. It was the last windmill working commercially by wind in Sussex, ceasing work by wind in 1969 when a stock broke.
5.2 miW
Park
Hempstead Meadow, Uckfield
134 min walk • Hempstead Meadow is a 1.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Uckfield in East Sussex. It is owned and managed by Uckfield Town Council. The site is mainly wet grassland with scattered trees and scrub. Flora include primroses, tussock sedge and various ferns. The meadow is used as a foraging area by bats.
4.4 miNE
Church, Gothic architecture
Church of St Dunstan
112 min walk • St Dunstan's, Mayfield in Mayfield, East Sussex was founded in 960 CE by St Dunstan, who was then Archbishop of Canterbury. It is reported as being originally a log church which lasted until it was replaced by a stone structure in the 12th century by the Normans.
2.8 miNW
Church
Five Ash Down Independent Chapel, High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
72 min walk • Five Ash Down Independent Chapel is an independent Evangelical church in the Reformed tradition in the hamlet of Five Ash Down, East Sussex, England.
5.7 miN
Church
Rehoboth Chapel, High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
145 min walk • The Rehoboth Chapel is a Strict Baptist place of worship in the village of Jarvis Brook in the English county of East Sussex. The red- and blue-brick building dates from 1876. Its Gospel Standard Strict Baptist congregation, founded in 1852, maintains links with the Forest Fold chapel on the other side of Crowborough.
4.9 miN
Windmill
Argos Hill Mill, Mayfield
125 min walk • Argos Hill Mill is a grade II* listed post mill at Argos Hill, Mayfield, East Sussex, England As of 2017 it is in the process of restoration by the Argos Hill Windmill Trust.
4.5 miS
Museum, History museum, Art gallery
Farleys House
116 min walk • Farleys House near Chiddingly, East Sussex, has been converted into a museum and archive featuring the lives and work of its former residents, the photographer Lee Miller and the Surrealist artist Roland Penrose. It also houses a collection of contemporary art by their friends Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Joan Miró.
6.3 miNW
Church
St John the Evangelist Church
160 min walk • St John's Church or St John the Evangelist Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in the Heron's Ghyll settlement of Buxted, East Sussex, England. It was built from 1896 to 1897 and designed by Frederick Walters. It is situated on the A26 road in the centre of Heron's Ghyll.