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Winchester
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Southampton
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Portsmouth
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Brighton
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Eastbourne
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The New Forest
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Worthing
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London
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Chichester
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The West Sussex port of Chichester was established by the Romans shortly after their invasion of Britain in AD 43. It has one of Europe’s largest marinas and its historic harbour has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Bognor Regis
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The charming West Sussex seaside town of Bognor was named ‘Bucganora’ in the 7th Century and gained its ‘Regis’ suffix in 1929, when King George V was moved to the coast for convalescence.
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Littlehampton
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Littlehampton is a small seaside town in West Sussex at the mouth of the River Arun. It has a busy marina and a shingle beach characteristic of the West Sussex Coast. Littlehampton is the location of the grave of ‘Kitty O’Shea’ – Katherine Parnell, and was the recipient of the first Blue Peter Lifeboat.
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Alton
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Alton is an attractive market town in Hampshire that grew from a tiny Saxon settlement, and is famous as being the home of Jane Austen, one of England’s most revered novelists. Alton gained notoriety in 1867 with the murder of Sweet Fanny Adams, coining a colloquial phrase meaning ‘sweet nothing’.
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Petersfield
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Petersfield is a small town in Hampshire on the main roads running from London to Portsmouth, and Winchester to Midhurst. Petersfield’s prosperity grew from this useful location as it developed into a bustling market town with many coaching inns, some of which survive today.
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Midhurst
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Midhurst is a small and attractive market town in the county of West Sussex. It stands on the banks of the River Rother, and has frequently been voted one of the most desirable places to live in England.
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Petworth
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Petworth is a delightful little town in West Sussex and is the setting for the magnificent Petworth House, a grand stately home showcasing the landscaping talents of Capability Brown.
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Arundel
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Situated in West Sussex on the River Arun, Arundel is a charming little town that stands in the shadows of Arundel Castle, one of the country’s most impressive and most complete medieval castles.
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Lewes
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Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, and its name derives from the Anglo-Saxon ‘Hlew’ meaning ‘hill’. The town is home to Lewes Castle and Lewes Priory, and was the scene of a battle in 1264 in which Simon de Montfort for a while at least became uncrowned King of England.
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Liss
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Liss is a small Hampshire village, close to the point at which the counties of Hampshire, Surrey and West Sussex meet. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book as ‘Lyss’ and grew into a thriving market town.
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Uckfield
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Uckfield is an attractive little market town in East Sussex, and is perhaps best known as the scene of the last recorded sighting of Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again in 1974.
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Horsham
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Horsham is a small market town in West Sussex and shares its name with a township in Pennsylvania, USA. Its mention in the Domesday Book is the subject of debate, and the town’s prosperity derived mainly from agriculture, although iron works and breweries were also notable. The prolific Romantic poet Percy Bysshe is Horsham’s most famous son.
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Crawley
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Crawley was designated one of the UK’s New Towns in 1946 to accept London’s excess population following the devastation of the Second World War and slum clearances. It is the centre of West Sussex’s shopping and light engineering, but most notably for London Gatwick Airport, just to the north of the town.
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Goodwood
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Goodwood in West Sussex is the site of Goodwood House – the magnificent historic seat of the Dukes of Richmond; Goodwood Racecourse – one of England’s most celebrated flat racing circuits and home of the Glorious Goodwood festival; and Goodwood Motor Circuit – a famous track which hosts the annual Festival of Speed and Revival Extravaganzas.
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