West Sussex is a

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. It is bordered by

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to the north, East Sussex to the east, the

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to the south, and

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to the west. The largest settlement is

Crawley Crawley () is a town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in West Sussex, England. It is south of London, north of Brighton and Hove, and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Crawley covers an area of and had a populat ...

, and the county town is the city of

Chichester Chichester ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in the Chichester District, Chichester district of West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher ...

. The county has a land area of and a population of . Along the south coast is a near-continuous urban area which includes the towns of Bognor Regis (63,855), Littlehampton (55,706), and Worthing (111,338); the latter two are part of the Brighton and Hove built-up area, which extends into East Sussex and has a total population of 474,485. The interior of the county is generally rural; the largest towns are Crawley (118,493) and

Horsham Horsham () is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...

(50,934), both located in the north-east;

is in the south-west and has a population of 26,795. West Sussex contains seven local government districts, which are part of a two-tier

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administered by West Sussex County Council. West Sussex and East Sussex were historically the single county

Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...

. The South Downs are a defining feature of the county, crossing it from east to west and dividing the north and south. The downs are a chalk escarpment which falls away sharply into the Weald to the north and more gently toward the south, where there is a narrow strip of flat land between the hills and the coast. The coastal strip widens to the west, where it is punctuated by Chichester Harbour which is a ria. The county has a long history of human settlement dating back to the Lower Paleolithic era. During the

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, Romans conquered the Atrebates, West Sussex's indigenous Britons, and incorporated the area as a

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. During the

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, the

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settled the area, establishing the Kingdom of Sussex in 477, which lasted until when the kingdom was annexed by Wessex. It is home to

Gatwick Airport Gatwick Airport , also known as London Gatwick Airport (), is the Airports of London, secondary international airport serving London, West Sussex and Surrey. It is located near Crawley in West Sussex, south of Central London. In 2024, Gatwic ...

, the UK's the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic. The county has a number of stately homes including Goodwood, Petworth House and Uppark, and castles such as Arundel Castle and Bramber Castle.

History

The name Sussex, derived from the

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'Sūþseaxe' (' South Saxons'), dates from the Saxon period between AD 477 to 1066, and the history of human habitation in Sussex goes back to the Old Stone Age.Armstrong. History of Sussex. Chapter 2. The first Inhabitants The oldest

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remains known in Britain were found at Eartham Pit, Boxgrove. Prehistoric monuments include the Devil's Jumps, a group of

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burial mounds, and the Iron Age Cissbury Ring and Chanctonbury Ring hill forts on the South Downs. The Roman period saw the building of

Fishbourne Roman Palace Fishbourne Roman Palace or Fishbourne Villa is in the village of Fishbourne, West Sussex, Fishbourne, near Chichester in West Sussex. The palace is the largest known Roman residence north of the Alps, and has an unusually early date of 75 A ...

and rural villas such as Bignor Roman Villa together with a network of roads including Stane Street, the Chichester to Silchester Way and the Sussex Greensand Way. The Romans used the Weald for iron production on an industrial scale. The foundation of the Kingdom of Sussex is recorded by the ''

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the ninth century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of ...

'' for the year AD 477; it says that Ælle arrived at a place called Cymenshore in three ships with his three sons and killed or put to flight the local inhabitants. The foundation story is regarded as somewhat of a myth by most historians, although the archaeology suggests that Saxons did start to settle in the area in the late 5th century.

Parker MS. 477AD. The Kingdom of Sussex was absorbed into Wessex as an earldom and became the county of Sussex. With its origins in the kingdom of Sussex, the later county of Sussex was traditionally divided into six units known as rapes. By the 16th century, the three western rapes were grouped together informally, having their own separate Quarter Sessions. These were governed by a separate county council from 1888, the county of Sussex being divided into the administrative counties of East and West Sussex. In 1974, West Sussex was made a single

with the coming into force of the

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. At the same time a large part of the eastern rape of Lewes (the Mid Sussex district which includes the towns of

Haywards Heath Haywards Heath ( ) is a town in West Sussex, England, south of London, north of Brighton, south of Gatwick Airport and northeast of the county town, Chichester. Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southwest, Horsham to the northwest, ...

Burgess Hill Burgess Hill () is a town and civil parish in West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park, south of London, north of Brighton and Hove, and northeast of the county town, Chichester. ...

and

East Grinstead East Grinstead () is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, south of London, northeast of Brighton, and northeast of the county town of Chichester. Situated in the northeast corner of the county, bord ...

) was transferred into West Sussex. Until 1834, provision for the poor and destitute in West Sussex was made at parish level. From 1835 until 1948 eleven

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s, each catering for several parishes, took on the job.

Settlements

Most settlements in West Sussex are either along the south coast or in Mid Sussex, near the Brighton Main Line and M23/ A23 corridor. The town of

is the largest in the county with an estimated population of 106,600. The coastal settlement of Worthing closely follows with a population of 104,600. The seaside resort of Bognor Regis and the market town of

are both large towns. Chichester, the county town, has a

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and city status, and is situated not far from the border with

. Other conurbations of a similar size are

and

in the Mid Sussex district, Littlehampton in the Arun district, and Lancing, Southwick and Shoreham in the Adur district. Much of the coastal town population is part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton

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. Rustington and Southwater are the next largest settlements in the county. There are several more towns in West Sussex, including Arundel, Midhurst, Petworth, Selsey, Steyning,

Henfield Henfield is a large village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Horsham (district), Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, northwest of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester at ...

, Pulborough and Storrington. Other notable villages include Billingshurst, Copthorne,

Crawley Down Crawley Down is a village in the Mid Sussex District, Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. There is one church, one school, and a number of social groups. It lies east of Crawley and east of London Gatwick Airport, Gatwick Airport. Cr ...

, Cuckfield, Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint and Lindfield.

Geography

West Sussex 1813 One Inch to the Mile map scan

Physical geography

West Sussex is bordered by Hampshire to the west, Surrey to the north and East Sussex to the east. The

lies to the south. The area has been formed from Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous rock strata, part of the Weald–Artois Anticline. The eastern part of this ridge, the Weald of Kent, Sussex and Surrey has been greatly eroded, with the chalk surface removed to expose older Lower Cretaceous rocks of the

Wealden Group The Wealden Group, occasionally also referred to as the Wealden Supergroup, is a group (stratigraphy), group (a sequence of rock strata) in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of wiktionary:paralic, paralic to c ...

. In West Sussex the exposed rock becomes older towards the north of the county with Lower Greensand ridges along the border with Surrey including the highest point of the county at Blackdown. Erosion of softer sand and clay strata has hollowed out the basin of the Weald leaving a north facing scarp slope of the chalk which runs east and west across the whole county, broken only by the valleys of the River Arun and River Adur. In addition to these two rivers which drain most of the county a winterbourne, the River Lavant, flows intermittently from springs on the dip slope of the chalk downs north of Chichester. Some intermittent streams are known in the local dialect as "rifes". The county makes up 1.52% of the total land of

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, making it the 30th largest county in the country.

Climate

West Sussex is the sunniest county in the United Kingdom, according to Met Office records. Over the 29 years to 2011 it averaged 1902 hours of sunshine per year. Sunshine totals are highest near the coast with Bognor Regis often having the highest in mainland England, including a total of 2237 hours in 1990. Mean annual temperature for southern coastal counties is around 11 °C. The coldest month, January, has mean daily minimum temperatures of around 3 °C near the coast and lower inland. July tends to be the warmest month when mean daily maxima tend to be around 20 °C. A maximum temperature of 35.4 °C occurred at North Heath, Pulborough on 26 June 1976. Coastal high temperatures are often moderated by cooler sea breezes. Monthly rainfall tends to be highest in autumn and early winter and lowest in the summer months, with July often being the driest month. There is less rainfall from summer convective showers and thunderstorms than in inland areas. The county can suffer both from localised flooding caused by heavy rainfall and from water shortages caused by prolonged periods of below average rainfall. Winter rainfall is needed to recharge the chalk aquifers from which much of the water supply is drawn.

Communications and transport

The M23 motorway runs from London to the south of

. The A23 and A24 roads run from London to

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and Worthing respectively with the A29 a little further west ending in Bognor Regis. Other major roads are the A272 which runs east to west through the middle of the county and the A27 which does the same but closer to the coast. The A259 is a local alternate route to the A27 in the eastern coastal strip.

, which handled over 33 million passengers and had over 250,000 aircraft movements in 2011, is located within the borders of

, and is the second largest airport in the United Kingdom. There is also a considerably smaller local airport at Shoreham Airport and a grass airfield handling

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and helicopters at Chichester/Goodwood Airport. There are three main railway routes: the Brighton Main Line, the Arun Valley line and the West Coastway line. The Portsmouth Direct line serves and occasionally enters the westernmost part of West Sussex, although it has no railway stations in the county.

Politics

Members of Parliament

Since the 2024 general election, West Sussex has been represented by two

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, Three Labour and three Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament (MPs).

County Council

West Sussex County Council (WSCC) is the authority that governs the non-metropolitan county of West Sussex. The county contains 7 district and borough councils ( Adur, Arun,

, Mid Sussex and Worthing), and 159 town, parish and neighbourhood councils. West Sussex County Council has 70

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s; the majority of them being Conservative. There are 46 Conservative councillors, 11 Liberal Democrats, 9 Labour Party councillors and 4 Green and Independent Alliance councillors. The Chief Executive and their team of executive directors are responsible for the day-to-day running of the council. West Sussex County Council is based at County Hall, Chichester and provides a large range of services including education, social services, fire and rescue, libraries, trading standards, town and country planning, refuse disposal and consumer services.

West Sussex Youth Cabinet

The West Sussex Youth Cabinet is a group of local representatives and four

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(UKYP) representatives, who are elected by young people in West Sussex. The Youth Cabinet represents the views of the young people West Sussex at county level. Elections for the Youth Cabinet and UKYP in West Sussex run every year in March.

Places of interest

Nature and zoos

* Chichester Harbour * Pagham Harbour – A protected area of wetland that is an important feeding ground for birds. * RSPB Pulborough Brooks * Selsey Bill * South Downs Way – a long distance footpath * Stansted Park * St Leonard's Forest * Tilgate Park *

Wakehurst Place Wakehurst, previously known as Wakehurst Place, is a house and botanic gardens in West Sussex, England, owned by the National Trust but used and managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew). It is near Ardingly, West Sussex in the Wea ...

* Warnham Local Nature Reserve, a 92-acre site with visitor centre * WWT Arundel (a

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of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust)

Castles, houses and other buildings

* Arundel Castle * Barnham Windmill * Bramber Castle * Christ's Hospital, an old charitable school notable for its archaic uniforms and picturesque campus * Goodwood House and Goodwood Motor Circuit * High Salvington windmill * Hurstpierpoint College, a public school, notable for its substantial Sussex flint buildings and large campus *

Lancing College Lancing College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Private schools in the United Kingdom, private boarding school, boarding and day school) for pupils aged 13–18 in southern England, UK. The school is located in West S ...

, a public school, notable for its substantial Sussex sandstone chapel and large campus * Seaford College, a public school known for its large campus * Nymans house and gardens, a National Trust property near Handcross,

* Petworth House and deer park. * Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, where Sir Archibald McIndoe carried out reconstructive surgery for burns patients during the Second World War *

Sackville College Sackville College is a Jacobean almshouse in town of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It was founded in 1609 with money left by Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset. Throughout its history it has provided sheltered accommodation for th ...

, a Jacobean almshouse in

* Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead * Shipley Windmill, (no longer open to the public) * Standen, East Grinstead * Uppark, a 17th-century mansion high on the South Downs

Religious buildings

The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, otherwise called Chichester Cathedral, is the seat of the

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Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Chichester is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the counties of East Sussex, East and West Sussex. The Episcopal see, see is based in t ...

. It was founded as a cathedral in 1075, when the seat of the bishop was moved from Selsey Abbey.Tim Tatton-Brown and John Crook, ''The English Cathedral'', New Holland (2002), The cathedral has architecture in both the Norman and the Gothic styles, and has been called by the architectural historian

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"the most typical English Cathedral". The Cathedral Church of Our Lady and St Philip Howard in Arundel is the

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of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton. Built in French Gothic style and dedicated in 1873 as the Catholic parish church of Arundel, it was not designated a cathedral until the foundation of the diocese in 1965. Bosham Church is partly of Saxon construction and is shown on the

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as the local church of late Saxon and Danish kings of England. Many other Saxon and early Norman churches have survived in the county with little alteration including the Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting, an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon church with a Rhenish helm unique in England and St. Nicholas Church, Worth, a 10th-century church in Worth,

. Some Anglican churches and many of the numerous nonconformist chapels in the county have been converted to residential use. Cittaviveka is a Buddhist monastery in Chithurst.

Museums

* Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre *Crawley Museum * Horsham Museum * Manor Cottage * Steyning Museum * Tangmere Military Aviation Museum * Weald and Downland Open Air Museum of historic buildings at Singleton * Wings Museum, Balcombe * Worthing Museum & Art Gallery

Arts

Pallant House Gallery in Chichester houses one of the most significant collections of 20th-century British art outside London. It includes a substantial body of early and mid-20th-century work bequeathed by Walter Hussey and many later works donated by Colin St. John Wilson. Worthing Museum and Art Gallery houses a large collection of Georgian and Victorian costume. The Cass Sculpture Foundation has an outdoor sculpture park at Goodwood.

Economy

Significant companies in the county include

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, a substantial employer near Chichester.

, with associated airlines including

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and Virgin Atlantic, is a major source of direct and indirect employment. Thales Group also has a presence in the county.

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has their UK headquarters in Crawley.

Agriculture

West Sussex developed distinctive land uses along with its neighbours in the weald. The

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cattle transformed into Sussex cattle and Sussex chickens emerged about the time of the Roman conquest.Hobson, Jeremy and Lewis, Celia. ''Choosing & Raising Chickens: The complete guide to breeds and welfare''. Daniel and Charles Publishing. London. 2009. p 94-95 Some of the earliest evidence of horses in Britain has been found at

Boxgrove Boxgrove is a village, parish, ecclesiastical parish and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Chichester (district), Chichester District of the English county of West Sussex, about north east of the city of Chichester. The village is ...

, dated to 500,000 BC. Viticulture is a part of the economy, with wineries producing mainly sparkling wine of varied quality.

Demographics

The table below shows the population change up to the 2011 census, contrasting the previous census. It also shows the proportion of residents in each district reliant upon lowest income and/or joblessness benefits, the national average proportion of which was 4.5% as at August 2012, the year for which latest datasets have been published. It can be seen that the most populous district of West Sussex is Arun containing the towns of Arundel, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton: The current total population of the county makes up 1.53% of England's population.

Education

West Sussex has a comprehensive education system, with a mix of county-maintained secondary schools and academies and over twenty independent senior schools. In addition primary education is provided through a mix of around 240

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, junior, primary, first and middle schools. Colleges include

The College of Richard Collyer The College of Richard Collyer (colloquially Collyer's ), formerly called Collyer's School, is a co-educational sixth form college in Horsham, West Sussex, England. The college was rated as being 'excellent’ by Ofsted in 2025. It is the secon ...

, Central Sussex College, Northbrook College and The Weald School. Independent schools in the county include Christ's Hospital near

, whose students wear Tudor style uniform, Seaford College,

and Hurstpierpoint College. Tertiary education is provided by the University of Chichester and Chichester College.

Sport

At least 40 sports are active in West Sussex. Sussex CCC was the first first-class county cricket club, formed in 1839, and was a cradle for club cricket. Sussex is home to Fontwell Park Racecourse. The county has one

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club located in

, that is Crawley Town F.C.

Media

BBC South television covers the county excluding

and Shoreham-by-Sea which are covered by BBC South East. ITV Meridian also covers the county.

is covered by both regions and by BBC London and ITV London. BBC Radio Sussex is the BBC local radio station for the county, broadcast from studios in

. The commercial local radio station is Heart South, and

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stations in the county are More Radio Worthing (serving Worthing, Shoreham, and Littlehampton),

More Radio Mid-Sussex More Radio Mid-Sussex, formerly Bright FM, is an Independent Local Radio station serving Mid Sussex District, Mid Sussex, West Sussex and East Sussex and surrounding areas, on FM and DAB. It is owned and operated by Total Sense Media and broadca ...

(serving

and

), 107 Meridian FM (for

) and V2 Radio (for

References

External links

West Sussex County Council

Images of West Sussex
at the English Heritage Archive
Further historical information and sources on GENUKI
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