Sussex

Historic County of England.

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Sussex

• Administrative centres Lewes and Chichester
• County Flower - Round-headed Rampion - also known as the 'Pride of Sussex', was adopted as Sussex's county flower in 2002.
• People from Sussex are called - Sussexer
• Motto We wunt be druv, is a Sussex dialect expression meaning 'we will not be pushed around' and reflects the traditionally independent nature of Sussex men and women.
• The flag of Sussex consists of six gold martlets, or heraldic swallows, on a blue background, blazoned as Azure, six martlets or. Officially recognised by the Flag Institute on 20 May 2011, its design is based on the heraldic shield of Sussex that first appeared in an atlas by John Speed in 1622. The significance of the six martlets may be to represent the traditional six sub-divisions of the county known as rapes. It may also be a canting reference to the title of the historic leading Sussex family, the Earls of Arundel, seated at Arundel Castle in the county, as the French for swallow is hirondelle.
• Anthem - Sussex by the Sea is regarded as the unofficial anthem of Sussex; it was composed by William Ward-Higgs in 1907, perhaps originally from the lyrics of Rudyard Kipling's poem entitled Sussex. Adopted by the Royal Sussex Regiment and popularised in World War I, it is sung at celebrations across the county, including those at Lewes Bonfire, and at sports matches, including those of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club and Sussex County Cricket Club.
• The county day, called Sussex Day, is celebrated on 16 June, the same day as the feast day of St Richard of Chichester, Sussex's patron saint, whose shrine at Chichester Cathedral was an important place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages.
• Famous For

• South Downs National Park
  
• Romney Marshes (although mainly Kent)
  
• Brighton Pavilion
  

• Sussex delicacies - "seven good things of Sussex"

• Pulborough eel,
  
• Selsey cockle,
  
• Chichester lobster,
  
• Rye herring,
  
• Arundel mullet,
  
• Amberley trout
  
• Bourne wheatear.
  

• Sussex is also known for

• Ashdown Partridge Pudding,
  
• Chiddingly Hot pot,
  
• Sussex Bacon Pudding,
  
• Sussex Hogs' Pudding,
  
• Huffed Chicken,
  
• Sussex Churdles,
  
• Sussex Shepherds Pie,
  
• Sussex Pond Pudding,
  
• Sussex Blanket Pudding,
  
• Sussex Well Pudding,
  
• Chichester Pudding.
  

• Sussex is also known for its cakes and biscuits known as Sussex Plum Heavies and Sussex Lardy Johns, while banoffee pie was first created in 1972 in Jevington. - The Hungry Monk Restaurant.
• Vineyards - 18th century beer brewers, Harveys of Lewes as well as many more recently established breweries are found in Sussex. In recent decades Sussex wines have gained international acclaim winning awards including the 2006 Best Sparkling Wine in the World at the Decanter World Wine Awards. Many vineyards make wines using traditional Champagne varieties and methods, and there are similarities between the topography and chalk and clay soils of Sussex downland and that of the Champagne region which lies on a latitude 100 miles (161 km) to the south.

Sussex is in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. Clockwise, it is bounded to the west by Hampshire; north by Surrey, north-east by Kent, south by the English Channel and is divided for local government into West Sussex and East Sussex and the city of Brighton and Hove. Brighton and Hove was created as a unitary authority in 1997, and was granted City status in 2000. Until then, Chichester had been Sussex's only city.

The name 'Sussex' derives from the Kingdom of Sussex, founded by Ælle of Sussex in 477 AD, which in 825 was absorbed into the kingdom of Wessex and the later kingdom of England. The region's roots go back further to the location of some of Europe's earliest hominid finds at Boxgrove. Sussex has been a key location for England's major invasions, including the Roman invasion of Britain and the Battle of Hastings.

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600px.jpg from The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers 1984.

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Places in Sussex

East Sussex

A

• Alciston,
• Alfriston,
• Arlington

B

• Barcombe,
• Barcombe Cross,
• Barcombe Mills,
• Battle,
• Beachy Head,
• Beachlands,
• Beckley Furnace,
• Bells Yew Green,
• Belmont,
• Berwick,
• Berwick Station,
• Bexhill-on-Sea,
• Birling Gap,
• Bishopstone,
• Blackness,
• Boars Head,
• Bodiam,
• Brede,
• Brighton,
• Broadland Row,
• Broad Oak,
• Broomgrove,
• Burwash,

C

• Cackle Street,
• Camber,
• Chitcombe,
• Clive Vale,
• Cock Marling,
• Cripp's Corner,
• Crowborough,
• Crowlink,
• Chiddingly
• Chailey,
• Cooksbridge

D

• Denton,
• Ditchling
• Downside

E

• Eastbourne,
• East Dean,
• East End,
• East Guldeford,
• Eridge Green,
• Etchingham,
• Exceat

F

• Fairwarp,
• Falmer,
• Filching,
• Five Ash Down,
• Folkington,
• Forest Row,
• Four Oaks,
• Frant,
• Friday Street

G

• Gotham,
• Groombridge

H

• Hailsham,
• Halton,
• Hampden Park,
• Hangleton,
• Hankham,
• Hartfield,
• Hastings,
• Heathfield,
• Herstmonceux,
• High Wickham,
• Hollington,
• Hove,
• Hirle

I

• Icklesham,
• Iford,
• Isfield

J

• Jenkins' Green,
• Jevington

K

• Kingston near Lewes

L

• Langney,
• Langney Village,
• Lewes,
• Lower Willingdon

M

• Maresfield,
• Mayfield,
• Meads,
• Mill Hill,
• Milton Street,
• Mount Pleasant

N

• Newhaven,
• Newick,
• Northiam,
• Norton,
• Nutley

O

• Ore Valley (Hastings)

P

• Peacehaven,
• Peacehaven Heights,
• Pevensey,
• Pevensey Bay,
• Piddinghoe,
• Playden,
• Polegate,
• Portslade

R

• Ringmer,
• Robertsbridge,
• Rodmell,
• Roselands,
• Rye,
• Rye Harbour

S

• St. Leonards-on-Sea
• Saltdean,
• Seaford,
• Sedlescombe,
• Shoreham-by-Sea,
• Sidley,
• Silver Hill,
• Southease,
• South Heighton,
• Stone-Cum-Ebony,
• Sunnyside,
• Sutton,
• St Anthony's Hill,
• Stone Cross,
• Swaile's Green,
• Southease

T

• Tarring Neville,
• Telscombe,
• Telscombe Cliffs,
• Tewes
• Three Cups Corner
• Ticehurst,

U

• Uckfield,
• Udimore,
• Upperton,

W

• Wadhurst,
• Wannock,
• Westham,
• West Hill,
• Willingdon,
• Wilmington,
• Wilmington Green,
• Winchelsea,
• Withyham

Y

• Yiddlington

West Sussex

A

• Adversane,
• Albourne,
• Aldingbourne,
• Aldsworth,
• Aldwick,
• Almodington,
• Amberley,
• Ancton,
• Angmering,
• Ansty,
• Apuldram,
• Ardingly,
• Arundel,
• Ashfold,
• Ashington,
• Ashurst, Ashurst Wood,
• Atherington

B

• Balcombe,
• Balls Cross,
• Barlavington,
• Barnham,
• Barns Green,
• Bedham,
• Bepton,
• Bignor,
• Billingshurst,
• Bilsham,
• Binderton,
• Birdham,
• Bolney,
• Bognor Regis,
• Borden,
• Bosham,
• Bosham Hoe,
• Botolphs,
• Boxgrove,
• Bracklesham Bay,
• Bramber,
• Broadbridge Heath,
• Brooks Green,
• Broomer's Corner,
• Burgess Hill,
• Burpham,
• Bury,
• Byworth

C

• Charlton,
• Chichester,
• Chidham,
• Chilgrove,
• Chithurst,
• Church Norton,
• Clapham,
• Climping,
• Cocking,
• Codmore Hill,
• Coldwaltham,
• Colgate,
• Colworth,
• Compton,
• Coneyhurst,
• Coolham,
• Coombes,
• Cootham,
• Copsale,
• Copthorne,
• Coultershaw Bridge,
• Cowfold,
• Crabtree,
• Crawley,
• Crawley Down,
• Crockerhill,
• Cuckfield

D

• Dell Quay,
• Dial Green,
• Dial Post,
• Didling,
• Donnington,
• Duncton,
• Durfold Wood,
• Durleighmarsh,
• Durrington

E

• Earnley,
• Eartham,
• Easebourne,
• East Ashling,
• East Dean,
• East Grinstead,
• East Hampnett,
• East Harting,
• East Lavant,
• East Lavington,
• East Marden,
• East Preston,
• East Wittering,
• Eastergate,
• Ebernoe,
• Egdean,
• Elmer,
• Elsted

F

• Faygate,
• Felpham,
• Fernhurst,
• Ferring,
• Findon,
• Fishbourne,
• Fishersgate,
• Fittleworth,
• Five Oaks,
• Flansham,
• Fontwell,
• Ford,
• Foul Mile,
• Fulking,
• Fyning

G

• Gay Street,
• Goddards Green,
• Goose Green,
• Goring by Sea,
• Graffham,
• Green Street,
• Gunter's Bridge

H

• Habin,
• Halnaker,
• Hammer,
• Hammerwood,
• Hampers Green,
• Handcross,
• Hardham,
• Harting,
• Hassocks,
• Haywards Heath,
• Heath End,
• Henfield,
• Henley (near Fernhurst),
• Heyshott,
• Hickstead,
• High Salvington,
• Highbrook,
• Hill Brow,
• Horsham,
• Horsted Keynes,
• Houghton,
• Hoyle,
• Hunston,
• Hurstpierpoint,
• Hurst Wickham

I

• Ifield,
• Ifold,
• Iping,
• Itchenor,
• Itchingfield

K

• Keymer,
• Kingsfold,
• Kingsley Green,
• Kingston by Ferring,
• Kingston by Sea,
• Kirdford

L

• Lancing,
• Langley,
• Lavant,
• Lidsey,
• Lickfold,
• Linch,
• Linchmere,
• Lindfield,
• Littlehampton,
• Lodsworth,
• Lower Beeding,
• Lower Horncroft,
• Loxwood,
• urgashall,
• Lyminster

M

• Madehurst,
• Mannings Heath,
• Maudlin,
• Merston,
• Mid Lavant,
• Middleton-on-Sea,
• Midhurst,
• Milland,
• Monk's Gate,
• Minsted

N

• Newtimber,
• North Bersted,
• Newpound Common,
• North Marden,
• North Horsham,
• North Mundham,
• North Stoke,
• Northchapel,
• Norton,
• Nutbourne (Chichester),
• Nutbourne (Horsham),
• Nuthurst,
• Nyewood,
• Nyetimber,
• Nyton

O

• Offham,
• Oving

P

• Pagham,
• Parham,
• Partridge Green,
• Patching,
• Pease
• Pottage,
• Petworth,
• Plaistow,
• Plummer's Plain,
• Poling,
• Poynings,
• Prinsted,
• Pulborough,
• Pyecombe

R

• Rake,
• Redford,
• River,
• Rogate,
• Rose Green,
• Rowhook,
• Rudgwick,
• Runcton,
• Rustington

S

• Sayers Common,
• Selham,
• Selsey,
• Selsfield Common,
• Sharpthorne,
• Shermanbury,
• Shillinglee,
• Shipley,
• Shipton Green,
• Shoreham-by-Sea,
• Shripney,
• Sidlesham,
• Singleton,
• Slaugham,
• Slindon,
• Slinfold,
• Slough Green,
• Small Dole,
• Somerley,
• Sompting,
• South Ambersham,
• South Bersted,
• South Harting,
• South Stoke,
• Southbourne,
• Southwater,
• Southwick,
• Spear Hill,
• Staplefield,
• Stedham,
• Steyning,
• Stopham,
• Storrington,
• Stoughton,
• Strettington,
• Strood Green,
• Sullington,
• Sutton

T

• Tangmere,
• Terwick,
• Terwick Common,
• Thakeham,
• Three Bridges,
• Tillington,
• Tisman's Common,
• Tortington,
• Tote Hill,
• Treyford,
• Trotton,
• Turners Hill,
• Twineham

U

• Up Marden,
• Upper Beeding,
• Upperton,
• Upwaltham

W

• Walberton,
• Walderton,
• Warnham,
• Warningcamp,
• Warninglid,
• Washington,
• Watersfield,
• West Ashling,
• West Burton,
• West Chiltington,
• West Dean,
• West Grinstead,
• West Harting,
• West Hoathly,
• West Itchenor,
• West Lavington,
• West Marden,
• West Preston,
• West Stoke,
• West Thorney,
• West Wittering,
• Wepham,
• Westbourne,
• Westergate,
• Westerton,
• Westhampnett,
• Whitehall,
• Whitemans Green,
• Wick, Wineham,
• Wisborough Green,
• Woodgate,
• Woodmancote (Horsham),
• Woodmancote (Chichester).
• Woolbeding,
• Worth,
• Worthing

Y

• Yapton
• A list of parishes with links to more information can be seen at

• List of civil parishes in East Sussex
  
• GENUKI
  
• List of civil parishes in West Sussex
  

• Towns and Villages

• List of places in East Sussex
  
• List of places in West Sussex
  
• Britain Express - Historic Towns and Villages in West Sussex
  
• East Sussex.org - East Sussex Villages
  
• Gazeteer with historical names, grid references etc.
  
• Information Britain The Towns of Sussex
  
• Pictures of England Towns in East Sussex
  
• Pictures of England - Pictures of West Sussex
  
• Sussex History Town and Village Place Names in East Sussex
  
• Sussex History Town and Village Place Names in West Sussex
  
• Towns and Villages in Sussex Visit Sussex
  
• West Sussex Info - West Sussex Villages
  

Resources

• Monumental Inscriptions and Graveyards
• Sussex Wikipedia Page
• Wiki East Sussex
• Wiki West Sussex
• Sussex Place names
• Genuki page of Sussex Towns and Parishes
• Wiki list of Places in East Sussex and accompanying map
• Wiki lsit of Places in West Sussex and accompanying map