Wiston is a scattered village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the

A283 road A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes'' ...

northwest of Steyning. The parish covers an area of . In the 2001 census 221 people lived in 86 households, of whom 120 were economically active.

Landmarks

Chanctonbury Ring, a hill fort based ring of trees atop Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs, lies on the border of the parish and the neighbouring parish of Washington.

Chanctonbury Hill Chanctonbury Hill is an biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Steyning in West Sussex. Part of it is Chanctonbury Ring, an early Iron Age hillfort which contains two Romano-Celtic temples and which is a Scheduled Monument. Thi ...

is a

Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...

as an uncommon woodland type on a chalk escarpment, providing habitat for many species including the protected Great Crested Newt.

References

Horsham District Villages in West Sussex {{WestSussex-geo-stub