Ashdown Forest covers over 6,400 acres of the High Weald in the rolling hills of East Sussex, although in ancient times it was thought to have been at least twice that size. This enormous forest attracts visitors from far...

The Ashdown herd of llamas and alpacas was started in 1987. The park is situated just on the edge of Ashdown Forest in the rolling green countryside of Sussex. The centre has dual aims; to educate the public...

Forest Row library is owned and operated by East Sussex County Council. The library has a modest selection of books from many varied genres but can easily locate and order any book in the country from other library services. There...

This church is unusual in its positioning as it is aligned north to south. Although not an ancient church, the building is one of the more attractive parish churches in the area. Built in 1834 at the cost...

One of the oldest established golf clubs in Sussex, the ‘old course’ was opened in 1889, amazingly just five months after it was started in 1888. The club’s two courses are famous for their design in that they exclusively...

The magnificent parish church of All Saints, in the small village of Danehill near to Haywards Heath, looks much older than it really is having been built as recently as 1892 to the designs of noted Victorian architects S.F. Bodley...

East Grinstead High Street is one of the best-preserved pre-Tudor high streets in the whole of Britain. Its main claim to fame is that it has the longest continuous run of fourteenth Century buildings of any place on the...

Founded in 1989, this multipurpose sports facility is the amalgam of several of the area’s local sporting clubs. The centre provides open access gym facilities and coaching in various indoor and outdoor sports. There are badminton halls, squash...

The village of Colemans Hatch in East Sussex is perched on a sharp escarpment on the border of the world famous Ashdown Forest and occupying the highest point on the outskirts of the village is the parish church of the...

Founded in 1609 with money left by the Earl of Dorset Robert Sackville, this Jacobean almshouse is one of the best-preserved buildings of its age in Sussex. Throughout its history, the college has provided sheltered accommodation for the elderly...

Adjacent to the manor house that founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard lived in stands the United Kingdom headquarters of the Church. The fifty-acre site in the rolling green Sussex hills is one of the largest teaching colleges for...

The manor is reputed to be the finest eighteenth Century sandstone manor house in Sussex. It is also one of the few tourist attractions in the area to be open all year round. The manor has had a...

This beautiful parish church is a wonderfully preserved example of the ‘early English style’ of church building. This church was built in 1847, but there is no doubt amongst historians that much of its contents come from a much...

The parish church of St. John the Divine was built in 1865 by the architect William White. It was constructed in ’rubble Wealden stone in the decorated style’; the stone used being quarried just half-mile away in Cooper’s Wood. Twentieth...

Standen is one of the finest reminders of the late 19th Century arts and crafts movement in the nation. Phillip Webb, a friend of William Morris in the late 1890s, designed the fantastic family house. The property is...