Steyning is well placed for visiting local attractions with lots to see and do for a great family day out.

Steyning Museum
The museum charts the changes in Steyning from a Saxon port to prosperous market town. Exhibits include ancient fossils, Roman pottery, 17th century swords and a rare vamping horn, and there are regular changing exhibitions.
Open all year
Free Parking
Shop
Disabled access
Church Street,
Steyning
Tel: 01903 813333
Web: http://www.steyningmuseum.org.uk/

St Mary’s House
This medieval timber-framed Sussex house was built in 1470 for the Bishop of Winchester and was a hostelry for pilgrims. Interiors include the unique Elizabethan Painted Room with its fine trompe l’oeil murals, the Monks’ Parlour and the elegant Victorian Music Room, where concerts and readings are held. Outside are delightful formal gardens, a shaded stream, pools and fountains and the mysterious ivy covered Monk’s Walk.
Group bookings available
Tea rooms
Gift Shop
Access for wheelchairs, some areas restricted
Tel: 01903 816205
Web: http://www.stmarysbramber.co.uk/

Chanctonbury Ring
Probably the most famous landmark on the South Downs is this clump of beech trees on the skyline at Chanctonbury. An Iron Age fort of about four acres forms the base of the Ring, a grove of trees planted by Charles Goring of nearby Wiston House in 1760. It was largely destroyed by the hurricane of October 1987, but has been replanted.
Web: http://www2.prestel.co.uk/aspen/sussex/chanctonbury.html

Coombes Farm
Visit this working farm and see the cows and calves, ewes and lambs, cornfields and Conservation Areas, for wildlife and wild flowers. At lambing time (from early March to late April) you can see over 1000 ewes lambing (and 100 cows calving), as well as take a tractor tour around the 700 acres of downland and 300 acres of brookland. Also visit Coombes Church with its 11th century paintings.
Tel: 01273 452028
Web: www.coombes.co.uk

Woods Mill Nature Reserve
Woods Mill nature reserve is the headquarters of the Sussex Wildlife Trust (SWT) - the county's leading wildlife charity. This 40-acre reserve is a mixture of coppice woodland, meadow, and reed-fringed lake surrounding an old water mill.
Tel: 01273 492630
web: www.sussexwt.org.uk