Visit Hassocks Places

Welcome to Visit Hassocks Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Hassocks

  

Hassocks Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Hassocks

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Hassocks history

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Prehistoric up to 19th Century

The area first became a centre of population around 20,000 years ago during the Stone Age. Around 600 B.C. the first metal workers came to the area with the beginning of the Bronze Age. A good example of an Iron Age fort is to be found on the top of the nearby Wolstonbury Hill. The area was colonised by the Romans and a Roman cemetery was found by Stonepound Crossroads.

Modern History

Hassocks Gate station opened on 21 September 1841 on the London to Brighton railway. South of the village the railway passes beneath the chalk escarpment of the South Downs through Clayton Tunnel, which at 6,777 feet (2,066 m) is the longest of the five tunnels on the railway. In 1861 a collision between two trains within the tunnel killed 23 people and injured 176 others.

You can visit Hassocks places with Walkfo Hassocks to hear history at Hassocks’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hassocks has 37 places to visit in our interactive Hassocks map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Hassocks, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Hassocks places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hassocks & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 37 audio facts unique to Hassocks places in an interactive Hassocks map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Hassocks Places Map
37 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Hassocks historic spots	Hassocks tourist destinations	Hassocks plaques	Hassocks geographic features
Walkfo Hassocks tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Hassocks

  

Best Hassocks places to visit

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Hassocks has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Hassocks’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Hassocks’s information audio spots:

St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer St Cosmas and St Damian Church is an Anglican church in Keymer, in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex. Rebuilt in 1866 in a style similar to the Saxon building it replaced, it is the parish church of Keymer and now lies within a combined parish serving three villages in Mid Sussex.

Wings Place Wings Place, formerly Ditchling Garden Manor, also known as Anne of Cleves House, is a Grade I country house in East Sussex. It is a Tudor house said to be one of the best examples in the country.

Wolstonbury Hill Wolstonbury Hill is a 58.9-hectare (146-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of in West Sussex. It is owned by the National Trust and part of it is a Scheduled Monument.

Oldland Mill, Keymer Oldland Windmill is an 18th-century post mill situated in Keymer, West Sussex, England. It is situated in the village of Keymer in the West Sussex.

Ditchling Unitarian Chapel Ditchling Unitarian Chapel is a Unitarian chapel. It was built in 1740 after a congregation of General Baptists began to meet in the village. The congregation moved towards Unitarian views in the mid-18th century. People associated with the chapel include William Hale White (the author “Mark Rutherford”)

Visit Hassocks plaques