West Sussex

West Sussex
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & Administrative County
Region:	South East England
Area: - Total - Admin. council	Ranked 30th 1,991 km² Ranked 27th
Admin HQ:	Chichester
ISO 3166-2:	GB-WSX
ONS code:	45
NUTS 3:	UKJ24
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council	Ranked 27th 755,855 380 / km² Ranked 9th
Ethnicity:	96.6% White 1.7% S.Asian
Politics
West Sussex County Council http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/
Executive:	Conservative
Members of Parliament
Peter Bottomley, Howard Flight, Nick Gibb, Tim Loughton, Francis Maude, Laura Moffatt, Nicholas Soames, Andrew Tyrie
Districts
Worthing Arun Chichester Horsham Crawley Mid Sussex Adur

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex was divided into eastern and western administrative regions, with separate county councils in 1888 but it remained a single county until 1974 when the new counties of East Sussex and West Sussex were created and the Mid Sussex region (including Haywards Heath and East Grinstead) was transferred from East Sussex.

Towns and villages

• Angmering, Ardingly , Arundel
• Balcombe , Bignor , Billingshurst , Bognor Regis, Bosham, Burgess Hill
• Chichester, Clapham, Crawley, Copthorne, Cuckfield
• East Grinstead, East Wittering , Elmer
• Ferring
• Goring by Sea
• Hammerwood, Haywards Heath, Henfield, Horsham, Horsted Keynes, Hurstpierpoint
• Keymer
• Lancing, Littlehampton
• Middleton on Sea , Midhurst
• Pease Pottage, Petworth, Pulborough
• Rustington
• Selsey, Shipley , Shoreham-by-Sea, Singleton, Sompting, Southbourne , Southwick, Steyning, Storrington
• Three Bridges
• Worthing, Washington

Places of Interest

• Amberley Museum, Arundel Castle, WWT Arundel (a reserve of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust)
• Barnham Windmill , Bignor Roman Villa , Bluebell Railway
• Christ's Hospital, an old public school notable for its archaic uniforms and picturesque campus.
• Fishbourne Roman villa
• Lancing College
• Gatwick Airport, Goodwood House
• High Salvington windmill
• Pallant House
• Selsey Bill , Shoreham Airport - the worlds oldest continually-operational airport, South Downs Way - a long distance footpath, South Downs, Stansted Park , St Mary's Church , Sompting - an 11th Century Anglo-Saxon church and one of the oldest places of worship in continual use anywhere outside of the Holy Lands .
• Wakehurst Place

History

Main article: History of Sussex.

External links

• Information on Sussex, history, maps
• Photos of Singleton Wealdland and Downland Museum, Nr Chichester
• Restaurants and takeaways in West Sussex