Hampshire is to the west, Surrey is to the north, East Sussex to the east and the English Channel with its beaches to the south.
Towns and villages
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Map of West Sussex
Towns
[edit]- 1 Chichester – county town and only city in West Sussex.
- 2 Arundel - a town beneath a castle.
- 3 Bognor Regis
- 4 Burgess Hill
- 5 Crawley
- 6 East Grinstead - take a ride on the Bluebell Railway
- 7 Haywards Heath
- 8 Horsham
- 9 Littlehampton
- 10 Midhurst - in the middle of the South Downs National Park.
- 11 Petworth
– a small town known for the stately home Petworth Park. - 12 Selsey and Selsey Bill
- 13 Southwick
- 14 Shoreham-by-Sea
- 15 Steyning
- 16 Worthing
Villages
[edit]- 17 Amberley – a village with an industrial heritage museum.
- 18 Bosham - A coastal village in Chichester Harbour.
- 19 Lancing - A large coastal village.
- 20 Wiston
Other destinations
[edit]- 1 South Downs
- 2 Bracklesham Bay
- 3 Knepp Wildland, New Barn Farm, Dial Post, RH13 8NN, ☏ +44 1403 713 230, [email protected]. An ecological estate being rewilded by using free-roaming browsing animals which has revitalised native wildlife and many endangered spicies.
Understand
[edit]West Sussex and neighbouring East Sussex once made up the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.
Talk
[edit]English - dialect is Home Counties.
Speakers of other languages may have trouble being understood, but locals are often willing to be patient and multilingual dictionaries are available at bookstores
Get in
[edit]- 1 Gatwick Airport (LGW IATA) is six miles north of Crawley. It has global connections and has direct road and rail links to the south coast, so you don't need travel via central London.
Get around
[edit]See
[edit]Do
[edit]Eat
[edit]Drink
[edit]Local wine: Nyetimber and Wiston Estate vineyards are near Pulborough. Bolney Estate is near Haywards Heath.
Go next
[edit]East Sussex with the city of Brighton.