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Fairlight works well as a base: 10 minutes from Hastings, 35km from Seven Sisters Cliffs.
Fairlight is in England, United Kingdom, with about 1,500 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Hastings, about 6 km away.
Fairlight is a village in East Sussex, England within Rother district, three miles (5 km) to the east of Hastings. Fairlight is also the name of the civil parish forming part of the Rother district which includes the villages of Fairlight and the much larger Fairlight Cove.
The village of Fairlight lies on a minorRead more
road between Ore, Pett and Winchelsea.
St Andrew's Church (built 1845) has a tall tower and beacon turret, and can be seen for some distance around. The church is one of three in the United Benefice of Fairlight, Guestling and Pett. Richard D'Oyly Carte, founder of the Savoy Theatre, Savoy Hotel, and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which produced the Gilbert and Sullivan light operas, is buried in the churchyard. So also are Thomas Attwood Walmisley, and Sir James Roberts of Saltaire and his wife.
Fairlight Cove, the neighbouring settlement and part of the parish, has suffered from coastal erosion and landslips at Rockmead Road and Sea Road. A number of houses there are very close to the sea edge, and properties on those roads have suffered through demolition and abandonment of a number of properties. The Fairlight Preservation Trust, a registered charity, was set up with a view to combating the loss by erosion and more generally to enhance and protect the village. Sea defences were built in the 1990s at Sea Road and at Rockmead Road in 2007. The 2007 works are intended to be effective for 50 years from 2007, and are regularly monitored by Rother District Council and by the Trust.
Although the nearest railway station is Three Oaks, Hastings offers a much better service and can be reached by bus from Fairlight. Rye station is also accessible by bus from Fairlight.
The Cinema Museum in London holds extensive home movies filmed in and around Fairlight from the 1950s and 60s.
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Within an hour or so of Fairlight: Mermaid Street, Rye (10 km), Rye (10 km), Bodiam Castle (16 km), Bodiam Castle (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) (16 km).
The nearest famous roads are Crystal Palace Circuit, Goodwood Festival of Speed and Military Road, Isle of Wight.
Fairlight is in England, United Kingdom, about 6 km from Hastings.
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Full driving guide for United Kingdom8 notable places within an hour's drive.
photogenic
Cobbled hill of half-timbered houses in the ancient Cinque Port of Rye, crowned by the 15th-century Mermaid Inn with its smuggling-era cellars. Houses carry names like 'The House with Two Front Doors'.
10 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A hilltop town of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses, once a Cinque Port and now stranded two miles inland.
10 km · about 20 min drive
castle
A 14th-century moated castle in East Sussex, renowned for its picturesque setting and well-preserved exterior.
16 km · about 30 min drive
film location
The moated East Sussex castle used in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and many period productions.
16 km · about 30 min drive
scenic viewpoint
The highest chalk sea cliff in Britain at 162 m, with a red-and-white lighthouse standing on the shore below.
33 km · about 40 min drive
natural wonder
A series of dramatic undulating chalk cliffs along the East Sussex coast, considered one of England's finest coastal landscapes.
35 km · about 40 min drive
beach
A National Trust hamlet at the foot of the Seven Sisters with beach access by steel staircase and rapidly retreating cliffs.
35 km · about 40 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A meandering river valley meeting the sea beneath the Seven Sisters, giving the classic view of the cliffs and coastguard cottages.
38 km · about 45 min drive
April to October
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