West Sussex is a county in the South East of England.

Hampshire is to the west, Surrey is to the north, East Sussex to the east and the English Channel with its beaches to the south.

Towns and villages

Towns

• 1 Chichester – county town and only city in West Sussex.
• 2 Arundel - a town beneath a castle.
• 3 Bognor Regis
• 4 Burgess Hill
• 5 Crawley
• 6 East Grinstead - take a ride on the Bluebell Railway
• 7 Haywards Heath
• 8 Horsham
• 9 Littlehampton
• 10 Midhurst - in the middle of the South Downs National Park.
• 11 Petworth – a small town known for the stately home Petworth Park.
• 12 Selsey and Selsey Bill
• 13 Southwick
• 14 Shoreham-by-Sea
• 15 Steyning
• 16 Worthing

Villages

• 17 Amberley – a village with an industrial heritage museum.
• 18 Bosham - A coastal village in Chichester Harbour.
• 19 Lancing - A large coastal village.
• 20 Wiston

Other destinations

• 1 South Downs
• 2 Bracklesham Bay
• 3 Knepp Wildland, New Barn Farm, Dial Post, RH13 8NN, ☏ +44 1403 713 230, safaris@knepp.co.uk. An ecological estate being rewilded by using free-roaming browsing animals which has revitalised native wildlife and many endangered spicies. (updated Dec 2021)

Understand

West Sussex and neighbouring East Sussex once made up the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

• Local council website

Talk

English - dialect is Home Counties.

Speakers of other languages may have trouble being understood, but locals are often willing to be patient and multilingual dictionaries are available at bookstores

Get in

• 1 Gatwick Airport (LGW ^IATA) is six miles north of Crawley. It has global connections and has direct road and rail links to the south coast, so you don't need travel via central London.

Drink

Local wine: Nyetimber and Wiston Estate vineyards are near Pulborough. Bolney Estate is near Haywards Heath.

Go next

East Sussex with the city of Brighton.