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East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, 27 miles (43 km) south of London, 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Brighton, and 38 miles (61 km) northeast of the county town of Chichester. Situated in the northeast of the county, the civil parish has an area of 2,443.45 hectares (6,037.9 acres).
Current OS maps show the route as a spur of the B2102, so the number was changed at that time or it was a typo in the first place. It is unknown if the B2239 number was actually allocated. However, an East Sussex County Council map from 2010 shows the B2239. B2240 - B2243: unused B2244 A21 near Sedlescombe: A229 The Moor, Hawkhurst
The Worthing Downland Estate, Worthing Downs or Worthing Downland, is an area of land in the South Downs National Park in West Sussex, England, close to the town of Worthing. It was bought by the public, following threats to the beauty spot of Cissbury Ring and the surrounding farmland, which led to a public campaign purchases in the 1930s.
Mount Caburn is a 150-metre (492 ft) prominent landmark in East Sussex, England, about one mile (1.6 km) east of Lewes overlooking the village of Glynde. It is the highest part of an outlier of the South Downs , separated from the main range by Glynde Reach , a tributary of the River Ouse .
The original name of Blackcap appears to have been Mount Harry, while the hill now known as Mount Harry was called Lewes Beacon. The name probably indicates that it was used as a pagan shrine, or hearg , in early Saxon times, like the Harrow Hills in West Sussex and Middlesex, though the name was only recorded in 1610.
Sussex Archaeological Society said that the collapsed wall was privately owned and one of the last parts of the curtain wall. [4] They also said that the parts owned by the society were checked independently on an annual basis. [4] The castle was closed as a precaution. [4] The wall was described in a contemporaneous news report as weighing 600 ...
The Priory of St Pancras was the first Cluniac house in England and had one of the largest monastic churches in the country. It was set within an extensive walled and gated precinct laid out in a commanding location fronting the tidal shore-line at the head of the Ouse valley to the south of Lewes in the County of Sussex.
The South Downs National Park is England's newest national park, designated on 31 March 2010. [1] The park, covering an area of 1,627 square kilometres (628 sq mi) in southern England, stretches for 140 kilometres (87 mi) from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east, through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex.