St Leonards on Sea seems to be a mecca for cool shops and places to eat. If you can tear yourself away from the beach and the beachfront cafés, as well as the quirky architecture, there’s a town centre that is colourful, slightly bohemian and full of style. The Arts If it’s art and culture […]
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St Leonards on Sea in East Sussex feels like a town on the up. It’s gritty in places but it’s also colourful, quirky and packed with interesting architecture, creative outlets and cool places to eat. In 2022, it was being described as the latest hip place to live and there is certainly a trendy new
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Bognor Regis is a seaside town in West Sussex. It’s in between Chichester and Brighton and about 55 miles south of London. It’s also near the smaller towns and villages of Felpham, Littlehampton, Arundel, Pagham and Selsey. Records of Bognor as a place date back to 680 AD. It was originally a centre for fishing
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Littlehampton is a town on the south coast of England in West Sussex (in the Arun District). It’s about 50 miles south of London and in between Worthing and Bognor Regis. Although it feels like a modern little town, there have been people living in the Littlehampton area for thousands of years, from the era
Crowborough is in the north east of Sussex in between Royal Tunbridge Wells and Uckfield. It’s proud to be the highest inland town in East Sussex and in fact, when you walk along the High Street to the main crossroads, you get tantalising glimpses of the countryside beyond. The town is surrounded by the High
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Now here is a little town at the southern edge of the High Weald that doesn’t seem to blow its own trumpet. Perhaps it should, as a warning, for the infant River Uck, a tributary of the Ouse that is bridged at the foot of the High Street and has often caused floods of some
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Henfield is a large village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, about 19 km northwest of Brighton and about 66 km south of London. It’s not far from the River Adur and the South Downs and it dates back to at least as far as the Domesday Book of 1086. With its long history,
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Beautiful Bexhill-on-Sea! Tucked away on the coast in the south east corner of East Sussex, it’s easy to whizz past Bexhill on your way to and from Hastings and Eastbourne. But if you stop, you’ll find a sunny little town with an eclectic history and all sorts of things going on. Bexhill today is quirky,
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Sussex towns nearly all have something special about them, but I have particularly fallen in love with Hastings Old Town. There are so many great things to do in Hastings but more than that, the Old Town sways to its own unique rhythm. With its fishing culture, smuggling heritage and a history that dates back
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The French connection between Lewes and Blois At first glance, you might not think that Lewes in Sussex and Blois in the Loire Valley have much in common, but you’d be wrong. In fact, they are twins! Lewes At the heart of rural Sussex, you’ll find the beautiful county town of Lewes, dominated by its
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