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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Nature and zoos</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nature_and_zoos-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Castles,_houses_and_other_buildings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Castles,_houses_and_other_buildings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Castles, houses and other buildings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Castles,_houses_and_other_buildings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religious_buildings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religious_buildings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Religious buildings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religious_buildings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Museums" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B3" title="غرب ساسكس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="غرب ساسكس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Occidental" title="Sussex Occidental – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Sussex Occidental" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Kauh" title="Sussex Kauh – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Sussex Kauh" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%81" title="Заходні Сасэкс – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Заходні Сасэкс" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%8A%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81" title="Западен Съсекс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Западен Съсекс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korn%C3%B4g_Sussex" title="Kornôg Sussex – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Kornôg Sussex" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A1padn%C3%AD_Sussex" title="Západní Sussex – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Západní Sussex" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorllewin_Sussex" title="Gorllewin Sussex – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Gorllewin Sussex" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4%C3%A4ne-Sussex" title="Lääne-Sussex – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Lääne-Sussex" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Occidental" title="Sussex Occidental – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sussex Occidental" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendebaldeko_Sussex" title="Mendebaldeko Sussex – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mendebaldeko Sussex" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%B3_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C" title="ساسکس غربی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ساسکس غربی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_de_l%27Ouest" title="Sussex de l'Ouest – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sussex de l'Ouest" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Thiar" title="Sussex Thiar – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Sussex Thiar" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Heear" title="Sussex Heear – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Sussex Heear" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9B%A8%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EC%84%9C%EC%8B%9D%EC%8A%A4%EC%A3%BC" title="웨스트서식스주 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="웨스트서식스주" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%80%D6%87%D5%B4%D5%BF%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%8D%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%A5%D6%84%D5%BD" title="Արևմտյան Սասեքս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Արևմտյան Սասեքս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="वेस्ट ससेक्स – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="वेस्ट ससेक्स" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapadni_Sussex" title="Zapadni Sussex – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Zapadni Sussex" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Barat" title="Sussex Barat – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sussex Barat" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%8B%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%8B%D0%BB%C3%A6%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81" title="Ныгуылæн Сассекс – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Ныгуылæн Сассекс" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestur-Sussex" title="Vestur-Sussex – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Vestur-Sussex" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%A1" title="מערב סאסקס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מערב סאסקס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussexia_Occidentalis" title="Sussexia Occidentalis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Sussexia Occidentalis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietumsaseksa" title="Rietumsaseksa – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Rietumsaseksa" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakar%C5%B3_Saseksas" title="Vakarų Saseksas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Vakarų Saseksas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr 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data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%B3" title="لیندا سسکس – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="لیندا سسکس" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81" title="Западный Суссекс – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Западный Суссекс" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wast_Sussex" title="Wast Sussex – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Wast Sussex" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81" title="Западни Сасекс – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Западни Сасекс" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="West Sussex" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%8B%E0%B9%8C" title="เวสต์ซัสเซกซ์ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เวสต์ซัสเซกซ์" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B8_%D2%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D3%A3" title="Сусекси Ғарбӣ – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Сусекси Ғарбӣ" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%C4%B1_Sussex" title="Batı Sussex – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Batı Sussex" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81" title="Західний Сассекс – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Західний Сассекс" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D8%B3%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3" title="مغربی سسیکس – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="مغربی سسیکس" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A2y_Sussex" title="Tây Sussex – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Tây Sussex" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" 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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1974</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Time in the United Kingdom">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B0" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+0">UTC+0</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time" title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B1" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+1">UTC+1</a> (<a href="/wiki/British_Summer_Time" title="British Summer Time">BST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">UK Parliament</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_West_Sussex" title="List of parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex">8 MPs</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Police</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sussex_Police" title="Sussex Police">Sussex Police</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color: #cddeff; font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">Ceremonial county</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_West_Sussex" title="Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex">Lord Lieutenant</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Lady Emma Barnard<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_West_Sussex" title="High Sheriff of West Sussex">High Sheriff</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Andrew Bliss QPM<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (2023–24)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">1,991 km<sup>2</sup> (769 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_ceremonial_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="List of ceremonial counties of England">30th of 48</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population<span class="nowrap"> </span><div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2022)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">892,336</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_ceremonial_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="List of ceremonial counties of England">27th of 48</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Density</th><td class="infobox-data">448/km<sup>2</sup> (1,160/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ethnicity<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>91.0% <a href="/wiki/White_people_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="White people in the United Kingdom">White</a></li><li>4.3% <a href="/wiki/British_Asians" title="British Asians">Asian</a></li><li>2.4% <a href="/wiki/Mixed_(United_Kingdom_ethnicity_category)" title="Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)">mixed</a></li><li>1.3% <a href="/wiki/Black_British_people" title="Black British people">Black</a></li><li>1.0% <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom">other</a></li></ul></div> <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/2021_United_Kingdom_census" title="2021 United Kingdom census">2021 census</a></span><sup id="cite_ref-2021_Nomis_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021_Nomis-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color: #cddeff; font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_county" title="Non-metropolitan county">Non-metropolitan county</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">County council</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/West_Sussex_County_Council" title="West Sussex County Council">West Sussex County Council</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Political_make-up_of_local_councils_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom">Control</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Admin HQ</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chichester" title="Chichester">Chichester</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">1,991 km<sup>2</sup> (769 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_two-tier_counties_of_England" title="List of two-tier counties of England">16th of 21</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population<span class="nowrap"> </span><div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2022)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">892,336</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_two-tier_counties_of_England" title="List of two-tier counties of England">8th of 21</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Density</th><td class="infobox-data">448/km<sup>2</sup> (1,160/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GB" title="ISO 3166-2:GB">ISO 3166-2</a></th><td class="infobox-data">GB-WSX</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/GSS_coding_system" title="GSS coding system">GSS code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">E10000032</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/International_Territorial_Level" title="International Territorial Level">ITL</a></th><td class="infobox-data">TLJ24</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://westsussex.gov.uk">westsussex<wbr />.gov<wbr />.uk</a></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color: #cddeff; font-weight: bold;">Districts</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:West_Sussex_numbered_districts.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/West_Sussex_numbered_districts.svg/200px-West_Sussex_numbered_districts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/West_Sussex_numbered_districts.svg/300px-West_Sussex_numbered_districts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/West_Sussex_numbered_districts.svg/400px-West_Sussex_numbered_districts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="995" /></a></span><br />Districts of West Sussex</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">Districts</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="text-align: left;"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Worthing" title="Worthing">Worthing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arun_District" title="Arun District">Arun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chichester_District" title="Chichester District">Chichester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horsham_District" title="Horsham District">Horsham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid_Sussex_District" title="Mid Sussex District">Mid Sussex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adur_District" title="Adur District">Adur</a></li></ol> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>West Sussex</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">ceremonial county</a> in <a href="/wiki/South_East_England" title="South East England">South East England</a>. It is bordered by <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/East_Sussex" title="East Sussex">East Sussex</a> to the east, the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a> to the south, and <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> to the west. The largest settlement is <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a>, and the county town is the city of <a href="/wiki/Chichester" title="Chichester">Chichester</a>. </p><p>The county has a land area of 1,991 square kilometres (769 sq mi) and a population of 892,336. Along the south coast is a near-continuous urban area which includes the towns of <a href="/wiki/Bognor_Regis" title="Bognor Regis">Bognor Regis</a> (63,855), <a href="/wiki/Littlehampton" title="Littlehampton">Littlehampton</a> (55,706), and <a href="/wiki/Worthing" title="Worthing">Worthing</a> (111,338); the latter two are part of the <a href="/wiki/Brighton_and_Hove_built-up_area" title="Brighton and Hove built-up area">Brighton and Hove built-up area</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Horsham" title="Horsham">Horsham</a> (50,934), both located in the north-east; <a href="/wiki/Chichester" title="Chichester">Chichester</a> is in the south-west and has a population of 26,795. West Sussex contains seven local government <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">districts</a>, which are part of a two-tier <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_county" title="Non-metropolitan county">non-metropolitan county</a> administered by <a href="/wiki/West_Sussex_County_Council" title="West Sussex County Council">West Sussex County Council</a>. West Sussex and East Sussex were historically the single county <a href="/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/South_Downs" title="South Downs">South Downs</a> are a defining feature of the county, crossing it from east to west and dividing the north and south. The downs are a <a href="/wiki/Chalk" title="Chalk">chalk</a> <a href="/wiki/Escarpment" title="Escarpment">escarpment</a> which falls away sharply into the <a href="/wiki/Weald" title="Weald">Weald</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Chichester_Harbour" title="Chichester Harbour">Chichester Harbour</a> which is a <a href="/wiki/Ria" title="Ria">ria</a>. </p><p>The county has a long history of human settlement dating back to the <a href="/wiki/Lower_Paleolithic" title="Lower Paleolithic">Lower Paleolithic</a> era. During the <a href="/wiki/Roman_conquest_of_Britain" title="Roman conquest of Britain">Roman conquest of Britain</a>, Romans conquered the <a href="/wiki/Atrebates" title="Atrebates">Atrebates</a>, West Sussex's indigenous Britons, and incorporated the area as a <a href="/wiki/Regni" title="Regni">Roman province</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/Early_Middle_Ages" title="Early Middle Ages">Early Middle Ages</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Saxons</a> settled the area, establishing the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sussex" title="Kingdom of Sussex">Kingdom of Sussex</a> in 477, which lasted until <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 827</span> when the kingdom was annexed by <a href="/wiki/Wessex" title="Wessex">Wessex</a>. It has a number of <a href="/wiki/Stately_home" class="mw-redirect" title="Stately home">stately homes</a> including <a href="/wiki/Goodwood_House" title="Goodwood House">Goodwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Petworth_House" title="Petworth House">Petworth House</a> and <a href="/wiki/Uppark" title="Uppark">Uppark</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Castles" class="mw-redirect" title="Castles">castles</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Arundel_Castle" title="Arundel Castle">Arundel Castle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bramber_Castle" title="Bramber Castle">Bramber Castle</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Sussex" title="History of Sussex">History of Sussex</a></div> <p>The name Sussex, derived from the <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> 'Sūþseaxe' ('<a href="/wiki/South_Saxons" class="mw-redirect" title="South Saxons">South Saxons</a>'), dates from the Saxon period between AD 477 to 1066, and the history of human habitation in Sussex goes back to the <a href="/wiki/Lower_Paleolithic" title="Lower Paleolithic">Old Stone Age</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-armstrong18_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-armstrong18-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The oldest <a href="/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis" title="Homo heidelbergensis">hominin</a> remains known in Britain were found at <a href="/wiki/Eartham_Pit,_Boxgrove" class="mw-redirect" title="Eartham Pit, Boxgrove">Eartham Pit, Boxgrove</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prehistoric monuments include the <a href="/wiki/Devil%27s_Jumps,_Treyford" title="Devil's Jumps, Treyford">Devil's Jumps</a>, a group of <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age_Britain" title="Bronze Age Britain">Bronze Age</a> burial mounds, and the Iron Age <a href="/wiki/Cissbury_Ring" title="Cissbury Ring">Cissbury Ring</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chanctonbury_Ring" title="Chanctonbury Ring">Chanctonbury Ring</a> hill forts on the South Downs. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman</a> period saw the building of <a href="/wiki/Fishbourne_Roman_Palace" title="Fishbourne Roman Palace">Fishbourne Roman Palace</a> and rural villas such as <a href="/wiki/Bignor_Roman_Villa" title="Bignor Roman Villa">Bignor Roman Villa</a> together with a network of roads including <a href="/wiki/Stane_Street_(Chichester)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stane Street (Chichester)">Stane Street</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chichester_to_Silchester_Way" title="Chichester to Silchester Way">Chichester to Silchester Way</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sussex_Greensand_Way" title="Sussex Greensand Way">Sussex Greensand Way</a>. The Romans used the Weald for <a href="/wiki/Wealden_iron_industry" title="Wealden iron industry">iron production</a> on an industrial scale.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The foundation of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sussex" title="Kingdom of Sussex">Kingdom of Sussex</a> is recorded by the <i><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle" title="Anglo-Saxon Chronicle">Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</a></i> for the year AD 477; it says that <a href="/wiki/%C3%86lle_of_Sussex" title="Ælle of Sussex">Ælle</a> arrived at a place called <a href="/wiki/Cymenshore" title="Cymenshore">Cymenshore</a> in three ships with his three sons and killed or put to flight the local inhabitants. The <a href="/wiki/Foundation_story" class="mw-redirect" title="Foundation story">foundation story</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-asc477_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-asc477-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Kingdom of Sussex was absorbed into <a href="/wiki/Wessex" title="Wessex">Wessex</a> as an earldom and became the county of Sussex. </p><p>With its origins in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sussex" title="Kingdom of Sussex">kingdom of Sussex</a>, the later county of Sussex was traditionally divided into six units known as <a href="/wiki/Rape_(county_subdivision)" title="Rape (county subdivision)">rapes</a>. By the 16th century, the three western rapes were grouped together informally, having their own separate <a href="/wiki/Quarter_Sessions" class="mw-redirect" title="Quarter Sessions">Quarter Sessions</a>. These were governed by a separate <a href="/wiki/County_council" title="County council">county council</a> from 1888, the county of Sussex being divided into the <a href="/wiki/Administrative_counties" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative counties">administrative counties</a> of East and West Sussex. In 1974, West Sussex was made a single <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">ceremonial county</a> with the coming into force of the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>. At the same time a large part of the eastern <a href="/wiki/Rape_of_Lewes" title="Rape of Lewes">rape of Lewes</a> (the <a href="/wiki/Mid_Sussex_District" title="Mid Sussex District">Mid Sussex</a> district which includes the towns of <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burgess_Hill" title="Burgess Hill">Burgess Hill</a> and <a href="/wiki/East_Grinstead" title="East Grinstead">East Grinstead</a>) was transferred into West Sussex. </p><p>Until 1834, provision for the poor and destitute in West Sussex was made at parish level. From 1835 until 1948 eleven <a href="/wiki/Poor_Law_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor Law Union">Poor Law Unions</a>, each catering for several parishes, took on the job.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Settlements">Settlements</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Settlements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_West_Sussex" title="List of places in West Sussex">List of places in West Sussex</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_settlements_in_West_Sussex_by_population" title="List of settlements in West Sussex by population">List of settlements in West Sussex by population</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chichester_-_Market_Cross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1350884.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Chichester_-_Market_Cross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1350884.jpg/170px-Chichester_-_Market_Cross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1350884.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Chichester_-_Market_Cross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1350884.jpg/255px-Chichester_-_Market_Cross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1350884.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Chichester_-_Market_Cross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1350884.jpg/340px-Chichester_-_Market_Cross_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1350884.jpg 2x" data-file-width="428" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Chichester_Market_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Chichester Market Cross">Chichester Market Cross</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Most settlements in West Sussex are either along the south coast or in Mid Sussex, near the <a href="/wiki/M23_motorway" title="M23 motorway">M23</a>/<a href="/wiki/A23_road" title="A23 road">A23</a> corridor. The town of <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a> is the largest in the county with an estimated population of 106,600.<sup id="cite_ref-office1_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The coastal settlement of <a href="/wiki/Worthing" title="Worthing">Worthing</a> closely follows with a population of 104,600.<sup id="cite_ref-office1_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The seaside resort of <a href="/wiki/Bognor_Regis" title="Bognor Regis">Bognor Regis</a> and the market town of <a href="/wiki/Horsham" title="Horsham">Horsham</a> are both large towns. Chichester, the county town, has a <a href="/wiki/Cathedral" title="Cathedral">cathedral</a> and <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">city status</a>, and is situated not far from the border with <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a>. Other conurbations of a similar size are <a href="/wiki/Burgess_Hill" title="Burgess Hill">Burgess Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Grinstead" title="East Grinstead">East Grinstead</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Mid_Sussex_District" title="Mid Sussex District">Mid Sussex</a> district, <a href="/wiki/Littlehampton" title="Littlehampton">Littlehampton</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Arun_District" title="Arun District">Arun district</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lancing,_West_Sussex" title="Lancing, West Sussex">Lancing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southwick,_West_Sussex" title="Southwick, West Sussex">Southwick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shoreham-by-Sea" title="Shoreham-by-Sea">Shoreham</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Adur_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Adur (district)">Adur</a> district. Much of the coastal town population is part of the <a href="/wiki/Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton" class="mw-redirect" title="Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton">Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton</a> <a href="/wiki/Conurbation" title="Conurbation">conurbation</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Rustington" title="Rustington">Rustington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southwater" title="Southwater">Southwater</a> are the next largest settlements in the county. There are several more towns in West Sussex, including <a href="/wiki/Arundel" title="Arundel">Arundel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midhurst" title="Midhurst">Midhurst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Petworth" title="Petworth">Petworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Selsey" title="Selsey">Selsey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steyning" title="Steyning">Steyning</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henfield" title="Henfield">Henfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pulborough" title="Pulborough">Pulborough</a> and <a href="/wiki/Storrington" title="Storrington">Storrington</a>. Other notable villages include <a href="/wiki/Billingshurst" title="Billingshurst">Billingshurst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Copthorne,_West_Sussex" title="Copthorne, West Sussex">Copthorne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crawley_Down" title="Crawley Down">Crawley Down</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuckfield" title="Cuckfield">Cuckfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hassocks" title="Hassocks">Hassocks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hurstpierpoint" title="Hurstpierpoint">Hurstpierpoint</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lindfield,_West_Sussex" title="Lindfield, West Sussex">Lindfield</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:West_Sussex_1813_One_Inch_to_the_Mile_map_scan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/West_Sussex_1813_One_Inch_to_the_Mile_map_scan.jpg/220px-West_Sussex_1813_One_Inch_to_the_Mile_map_scan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/West_Sussex_1813_One_Inch_to_the_Mile_map_scan.jpg/330px-West_Sussex_1813_One_Inch_to_the_Mile_map_scan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/West_Sussex_1813_One_Inch_to_the_Mile_map_scan.jpg/440px-West_Sussex_1813_One_Inch_to_the_Mile_map_scan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="11558" data-file-height="8383" /></a><figcaption>1813/54 one inch to the mile OS map</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Physical_geography">Physical geography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Physical geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_West_Sussex" title="Geology of West Sussex">Geology of West Sussex</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_hills_of_West_Sussex" title="List of hills of West Sussex">List of hills of West Sussex</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:West_Sussex_general_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/West_Sussex_general_map.svg/220px-West_Sussex_general_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/West_Sussex_general_map.svg/330px-West_Sussex_general_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/West_Sussex_general_map.svg/440px-West_Sussex_general_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="901" data-file-height="697" /></a><figcaption>General map of West Sussex.</figcaption></figure> <p>West Sussex is bordered by Hampshire to the west, Surrey to the north and East Sussex to the east. The <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a> lies to the south. The area has been formed from <a href="/wiki/Upper_Jurassic" class="mw-redirect" title="Upper Jurassic">Upper Jurassic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lower_Cretaceous" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower Cretaceous">Lower Cretaceous</a> rock strata, part of the <a href="/wiki/Weald%E2%80%93Artois_Anticline" title="Weald–Artois Anticline">Weald–Artois Anticline</a>. The eastern part of this ridge, the <a href="/wiki/Weald" title="Weald">Weald</a> of Kent, Sussex and Surrey has been greatly eroded, with the chalk surface removed to expose older Lower Cretaceous rocks of the <a href="/wiki/Wealden_Group" title="Wealden Group">Wealden Group</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In West Sussex the exposed rock becomes older towards the north of the county with <a href="/wiki/Lower_Greensand_Group" title="Lower Greensand Group">Lower Greensand</a> ridges along the border with Surrey including the highest point of the county at <a href="/wiki/Blackdown,_West_Sussex" title="Blackdown, West Sussex">Blackdown</a>. Erosion of softer sand and clay strata has hollowed out the basin of the Weald leaving a north facing <a href="/wiki/Escarpment" title="Escarpment">scarp slope</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chalk" title="Chalk">chalk</a> which runs east and west across the whole county, broken only by the valleys of the <a href="/wiki/River_Arun" title="River Arun">River Arun</a> and <a href="/wiki/River_Adur" title="River Adur">River Adur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MantellJones_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MantellJones-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to these two rivers which drain most of the county a <a href="/wiki/Winterbourne_(stream)" title="Winterbourne (stream)">winterbourne</a>, the <a href="/wiki/River_Lavant,_West_Sussex" title="River Lavant, West Sussex">River Lavant</a>, flows intermittently from springs on the dip slope of the chalk downs north of Chichester.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some intermittent streams are known in the local dialect as "rifes".<sup id="cite_ref-rife_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rife-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county makes up 1.52% of the total land of <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, making it the 30th <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="List of counties in the United Kingdom">largest county in the country</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="infobox" style="width: 19.5em; 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left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">8</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.04em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">3</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.122em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">56</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:8.86em;height:1.18em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:10.04em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">10</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.36em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">4</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:0.936em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">47</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:9.16em;height:1.4em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:10.56em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">13</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.66em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">6</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:0.888em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">44</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:9.8em;height:1.4em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:11.2em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">16</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:8.3em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">9</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:0.88em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">44</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:10.34em;height:1.38em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:11.72em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">19</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:8.84em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">12</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:0.818em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">41</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:10.8em;height:1.38em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:12.18em; 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left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">19</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:8.88em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">12</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.838em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">92</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:9.86em;height:1.2em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:11.06em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">15</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:8.36em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">9</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.668em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">83</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:9.16em;height:1.1em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:10.26em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">11</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.66em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">6</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.636em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">82</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;color-adjust: exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:8.72em;height:1em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:9.72em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">9</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.22em; left:-.4em;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:80%">4</span></div> </div></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="12" style="padding: 2px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em"><span style="color: red; background-color: red">█</span> Average max. and min. temperatures in °C</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="12" style="padding: 2px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em"><span style="color: #aaccee; background-color: #aaccee">█</span> Precipitation totals in mm</td></tr><tr><td colspan="12" style="padding: 2px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em">Source: Met Office<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr> <tr><td> <table class="infobox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 100%; margin: 0; float: right; clear: right; text-align: center; border: none; font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr><th colspan="12">Imperial conversion</th></tr> <tr><td>J</td><td>F</td><td>M</td><td>A</td><td>M</td><td>J</td><td>J</td><td>A</td><td>S</td><td>O</td><td>N</td><td>D</td></tr> <tr> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.524em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">3</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:8.62em;height:0.94em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:9.56em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">46</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.12em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">38</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:0.992em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">2</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:8.54em;height:1.04em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:9.58em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">46</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.04em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">37</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.122em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">2.2</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:8.86em;height:1.18em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:10.04em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">50</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.36em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">40</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:0.936em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">1.8</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:9.16em;height:1.4em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:10.56em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">55</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.66em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">42</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:0.888em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">1.7</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:9.8em;height:1.4em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:11.2em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">61</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:8.3em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">48</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:0.88em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">1.7</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:10.34em;height:1.38em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:11.72em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">65</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:8.84em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">53</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:0.818em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">1.6</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:10.8em;height:1.38em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:12.18em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">70</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:9.3em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">57</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.026em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">2</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:10.78em;height:1.42em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:12.2em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">70</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:9.28em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">57</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.178em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">2.3</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:10.38em;height:1.38em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:11.76em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">66</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:8.88em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">53</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.838em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">3.6</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:9.86em;height:1.2em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:11.06em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">60</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:8.36em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">49</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.668em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">3.3</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:9.16em;height:1.1em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:10.26em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">52</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.66em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">42</span></div> </div></td> <td><div style="width:1.6em;height:17em;position:relative;padding:0;margin:0"> <div style="height:0em;bottom:2em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #abc;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="background:#ace;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;bottom:2em;left:.2em;width:1.2em;height:1.636em;overflow:hidden"> </div> <div style="color:blue;position:absolute;bottom:.5em;left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:70%">3.2</span></div> <div style="height:0em;bottom:8em;width:1.6em;position:absolute;left:0;border-bottom:dotted 1px #cba;padding:0;margin:0"> </div> <div style="overflow:hidden;background:#e44;-webkit-print-color-adjust:exact;color-adjust:exact;position:absolute;left:.4em;width:0.8em;bottom:8.72em;height:1em;"> </div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:9.72em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">47</span></div> <div style="color:red;position:absolute;bottom:7.22em; left:0;width:1.6em;height:1.5em;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:80%">38</span></div> </div></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="12" style="padding: 2px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em"><span style="color: red; background-color: red">█</span> Average max. and min. temperatures in °F</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="12" style="padding: 2px; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em"><span style="color: #aaccee; background-color: #aaccee">█</span> Precipitation totals in inches</td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>West Sussex is the sunniest county in the United Kingdom, according to <a href="/wiki/Met_Office" title="Met Office">Met Office</a> records. Over the 29 years to 2011 it averaged 1902 hours of sunshine per year.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sunshine totals are highest near the coast with <a href="/wiki/Bognor_Regis" title="Bognor Regis">Bognor Regis</a> 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, <a href="/wiki/Pulborough" title="Pulborough">Pulborough</a> on 26 June 1976. Coastal high temperatures are often moderated by cooler sea breezes.<sup id="cite_ref-MetOff_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MetOff-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-MetOff_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MetOff-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Communications_and_transport">Communications and transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Communications and transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/M23_motorway" title="M23 motorway">M23 motorway</a> runs from London to the south of <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a>. The <a href="/wiki/A23_road" title="A23 road">A23</a> and <a href="/wiki/A24_road" class="mw-redirect" title="A24 road">A24</a> roads run from <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> to <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Worthing" title="Worthing">Worthing</a> respectively with the <a href="/wiki/A29_road" title="A29 road">A29</a> a little further west ending in <a href="/wiki/Bognor_Regis" title="Bognor Regis">Bognor Regis</a>. Other major roads are the <a href="/wiki/A272_road" title="A272 road">A272</a> which runs east to west through the middle of the county and the <a href="/wiki/A27_road" title="A27 road">A27</a> which does the same but closer to the coast. The <a href="/wiki/A259_road" title="A259 road">A259</a> is a local alternate route to the A27 in the eastern coastal strip. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Gatwick_Airport" title="Gatwick Airport">Gatwick Airport</a>, which handled over 33 million passengers and had over 250,000 aircraft movements in 2011, is located within the borders of <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a>, and is the second largest airport in the United Kingdom. There is also a considerably smaller local airport at <a href="/wiki/Shoreham_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Shoreham Airport">Shoreham Airport</a> and a grass airfield handling <a href="/wiki/Light_aircraft" title="Light aircraft">light aircraft</a> and <a href="/wiki/Helicopters" class="mw-redirect" title="Helicopters">helicopters</a> at <a href="/wiki/Chichester/Goodwood_Airport" title="Chichester/Goodwood Airport">Chichester/Goodwood Airport</a>. There are three main railway routes: the <a href="/wiki/Brighton_Main_Line" title="Brighton Main Line">Brighton Main Line</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Arun_Valley_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Arun Valley Line">Arun Valley Line</a> and the <a href="/wiki/West_Coastway_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="West Coastway Line">West Coastway Line</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Direct_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Portsmouth Direct Line">Portsmouth Direct Line</a> serves and occasionally enters the westernmost part of West Sussex, although it has no railway stations in the county. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_local_government_in_Sussex" title="History of local government in Sussex">History of local government in Sussex</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 general election</a>, West Sussex has been represented by two <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a>, Three <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> and three <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Democrat (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Members of Parliament</a> (MPs).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Constituency </th> <th>Member of Parliament </th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Arundel_%26_South_Downs_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arundel & South Downs (UK Parliament constituency)">Arundel & South Downs</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Griffith" title="Andrew Griffith">Andrew Griffith</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bognor_Regis_%26_Littlehampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bognor Regis & Littlehampton (UK Parliament constituency)">Bognor Regis & Littlehampton</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alison_Griffiths_(politician)" title="Alison Griffiths (politician)">Alison Griffiths</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chichester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chichester (UK Parliament constituency)">Chichester</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jess_Brown-Fuller" title="Jess Brown-Fuller">Jess Brown-Fuller</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Democrat (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Crawley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Crawley (UK Parliament constituency)">Crawley</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Lamb_(politician)" title="Peter Lamb (politician)">Peter Lamb</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Horsham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Horsham (UK Parliament constituency)">Horsham</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Milne_(British_politician)" title="John Milne (British politician)">John Milne</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Democrat (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mid_Sussex_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mid Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)">Mid Sussex</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alison_Bennett" title="Alison Bennett">Alison Bennett</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Democrat (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Worthing_and_Shoreham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Worthing and Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)">East Worthing and Shoreham</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tom_Rutland" title="Tom Rutland">Tom Rutland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Worthing_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Worthing West (UK Parliament constituency)">Worthing West</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Beccy_Cooper" title="Beccy Cooper">Beccy Cooper</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/West_Sussex_County_Council" title="West Sussex County Council">West Sussex County Council</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arms_of_West_Sussex_County_Council.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Arms_of_West_Sussex_County_Council.svg/150px-Arms_of_West_Sussex_County_Council.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Arms_of_West_Sussex_County_Council.svg/225px-Arms_of_West_Sussex_County_Council.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Arms_of_West_Sussex_County_Council.svg/300px-Arms_of_West_Sussex_County_Council.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="739" data-file-height="876" /></a><figcaption>The coat of arms of West Sussex County Council</figcaption></figure> <p>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 (<a href="/wiki/Adur_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Adur (district)">Adur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arun_District" title="Arun District">Arun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chichester_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chichester (district)">Chichester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horsham_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Horsham (district)">Horsham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mid_Sussex_District" title="Mid Sussex District">Mid Sussex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Worthing" title="Worthing">Worthing</a>), and 159 town, parish and neighbourhood councils. </p><p>West Sussex County Council has 70 <a href="/wiki/Councillor" title="Councillor">councillors</a>; the majority of them being Conservative. There are 46 Conservative councillors, 11 <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>, 9 <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> councillors and 4 Green and Independent Alliance councillors.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Chief Executive and their team of executive directors are responsible for the day-to-day running of the council. </p><p>West Sussex County Council is based at <a href="/wiki/County_Hall,_Chichester" title="County Hall, Chichester">County Hall, Chichester</a> 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_Sussex_Youth_Cabinet">West Sussex Youth Cabinet</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: West Sussex Youth Cabinet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The West Sussex Youth Cabinet is a group of local representatives and four <a href="/wiki/UK_Youth_Parliament" title="UK Youth Parliament">UK Youth Parliament</a> (UKYP) representatives, who are elected by young people in West Sussex.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Places_of_interest">Places of interest</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Places of interest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nature_and_zoos">Nature and zoos</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Nature and zoos"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakehurst_Place_gardens1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Wakehurst_Place_gardens1.jpg/220px-Wakehurst_Place_gardens1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Wakehurst_Place_gardens1.jpg/330px-Wakehurst_Place_gardens1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Wakehurst_Place_gardens1.jpg/440px-Wakehurst_Place_gardens1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>Wakehurst Place Gardens, <a href="/wiki/Ardingly" title="Ardingly">Ardingly</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chichester_Harbour" title="Chichester Harbour">Chichester Harbour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pagham_Harbour" title="Pagham Harbour">Pagham Harbour</a> – A protected area of wetland that is an important feeding ground for birds.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RSPB_Pulborough_Brooks" class="mw-redirect" title="RSPB Pulborough Brooks">RSPB Pulborough Brooks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selsey_Bill" title="Selsey Bill">Selsey Bill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Downs_Way" title="South Downs Way">South Downs Way</a> – a <a href="/wiki/Long_distance_footpath" class="mw-redirect" title="Long distance footpath">long distance footpath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stansted_Park" title="Stansted Park">Stansted Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Leonard%27s_Forest" title="St Leonard's Forest">St Leonard's Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tilgate_Park" title="Tilgate Park">Tilgate Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakehurst_Place" title="Wakehurst Place">Wakehurst Place</a></li> <li>Warnham Local Nature Reserve, a 92-acre site with visitor centre<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WWT_Arundel" title="WWT Arundel">WWT Arundel</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Nature_reserve" title="Nature reserve">nature reserve</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Wildfowl_and_Wetlands_Trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust">Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Castles,_houses_and_other_buildings"><span id="Castles.2C_houses_and_other_buildings"></span>Castles, houses and other buildings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Castles, houses and other buildings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arundel_Castle" title="Arundel Castle">Arundel Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Baker%27s_Mill,_Barnham" title="John Baker's Mill, Barnham">Barnham Windmill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bramber_Castle" title="Bramber Castle">Bramber Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_Hospital" title="Christ's Hospital">Christ's Hospital</a>, an old charitable school notable for its archaic uniforms and picturesque campus.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goodwood_House" title="Goodwood House">Goodwood House</a> and <a href="/wiki/Goodwood_Circuit" title="Goodwood Circuit">Goodwood Motor Circuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_Salvington_windmill" class="mw-redirect" title="High Salvington windmill">High Salvington windmill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hurstpierpoint_College" title="Hurstpierpoint College">Hurstpierpoint College</a>, a public school, notable for its substantial Sussex flint buildings and large campus.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancing_College" title="Lancing College">Lancing College</a>, a public school, notable for its substantial Sussex sandstone chapel and large campus.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seaford_College" title="Seaford College">Seaford College</a>, a public school known for its large campus</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nymans" title="Nymans">Nymans</a> house and gardens, a National Trust property near <a href="/wiki/Handcross" title="Handcross">Handcross</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petworth_House" title="Petworth House">Petworth House</a> and deer park.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria_Hospital" title="Queen Victoria Hospital">Queen Victoria Hospital</a>, East Grinstead, where Sir <a href="/wiki/Archibald_McIndoe" title="Archibald McIndoe">Archibald McIndoe</a> carried out reconstructive surgery for burns patients during the Second World War.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sackville_College" title="Sackville College">Sackville College</a>, a Jacobean almshouse in <a href="/wiki/East_Grinstead" title="East Grinstead">East Grinstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shipley_Windmill" class="mw-redirect" title="Shipley Windmill">Shipley Windmill</a>, (no longer open to the public).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standen" title="Standen">Standen</a>, East Grinstead</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uppark" title="Uppark">Uppark</a>, a 17th-century mansion high on the South Downs.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religious_buildings">Religious buildings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Religious buildings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Churches_in_West_Sussex" title="Category:Churches in West Sussex">Category:Churches in West Sussex</a></div> <p>The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, otherwise called <a href="/wiki/Chichester_Cathedral" title="Chichester Cathedral">Chichester Cathedral</a>, is the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Anglican</a> <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Chichester" title="Bishop of Chichester">Bishop of Chichester</a>. It was founded as a cathedral in 1075, when the seat of the bishop was moved from <a href="/wiki/Selsey_Abbey" title="Selsey Abbey">Selsey Abbey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TTB_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TTB-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cathedral has architecture in both the <a href="/wiki/Norman_architecture" title="Norman architecture">Norman</a> and the <a href="/wiki/English_Gothic_architecture" title="English Gothic architecture">Gothic</a> styles, and has been called by the architectural historian <a href="/wiki/Nikolaus_Pevsner" title="Nikolaus Pevsner">Nikolaus Pevsner</a> "the most typical English Cathedral".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Arundel_Cathedral" title="Arundel Cathedral">Cathedral Church of Our Lady and St Philip Howard</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arundel" title="Arundel">Arundel</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Cathedral" title="Cathedral">cathedral</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Arundel_and_Brighton" class="mw-redirect" title="Diocese of Arundel and Brighton">Diocese of Arundel and Brighton</a>. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-VCH22936_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VCH22936-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Bosham" title="Holy Trinity Church, Bosham">Bosham Church</a> is partly of <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_architecture" title="Anglo-Saxon architecture">Saxon</a> construction and is shown on the <a href="/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry" title="Bayeux Tapestry">Bayeux Tapestry</a> as the local church of late Saxon and Danish kings of England.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many other Saxon and early Norman churches have survived in the county with little alteration including the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_the_Blessed_Virgin,_Sompting" title="Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting">Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting</a>, an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon church with a <a href="/wiki/Rhenish" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhenish">Rhenish</a> helm unique in England and <a href="/wiki/St._Nicholas_Church,_Worth" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Nicholas Church, Worth">St. Nicholas Church, Worth</a>, a 10th-century church in <a href="/wiki/Worth,_West_Sussex" title="Worth, West Sussex">Worth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a>. Some Anglican churches and many of the numerous nonconformist chapels in the county have been converted to residential use. <a href="/wiki/Chithurst_Buddhist_Monastery" title="Chithurst Buddhist Monastery">Cittaviveka</a> is a Buddhist monastery in <a href="/wiki/Chithurst" class="mw-redirect" title="Chithurst">Chithurst</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Museums">Museums</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Museums"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Worthing_Museum_and_Art_Gallery" title="Worthing Museum and Art Gallery">Worthing Museum & Art Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amberley_Museum_%26_Heritage_Centre" title="Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre">Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre</a></li> <li>Manor Cottage<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Steyning Museum<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tangmere_Military_Aviation_Museum" title="Tangmere Military Aviation Museum">Tangmere Military Aviation Museum</a><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horsham_Museum" title="Horsham Museum">Horsham Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weald_and_Downland_Open_Air_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Weald and Downland Open Air Museum">Weald and Downland Open Air Museum</a> of historic buildings at <a href="/wiki/Singleton,_West_Sussex" title="Singleton, West Sussex">Singleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wings_Museum" title="Wings Museum">Wings Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balcombe" title="Balcombe">Balcombe</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arts">Arts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Arts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Pallant_House_Gallery" title="Pallant House Gallery">Pallant House Gallery</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Walter_Hussey" title="Walter Hussey">Walter Hussey</a> and many later works donated by <a href="/wiki/Colin_St._John_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Colin St. John Wilson">Colin St. John Wilson</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Worthing_Museum_and_Art_Gallery" title="Worthing Museum and Art Gallery">Worthing Museum and Art Gallery</a> houses a large collection of Georgian and Victorian costume. The <a href="/wiki/Cass_Sculpture_Foundation" title="Cass Sculpture Foundation">Cass Sculpture Foundation</a> has an outdoor sculpture park at <a href="/wiki/Goodwood,_West_Sussex" class="mw-redirect" title="Goodwood, West Sussex">Goodwood</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Table_section_needs_prose plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" 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class="date">September 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" width="100%"> <caption>Trend of regional <a href="/wiki/Gross_value_added" title="Gross value added">gross value added</a> of West Sussex at current basic prices published by <i>Office for National Statistics</i> with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="20%">Year </th> <th scope="col" width="20%">Regional gross value added<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col" width="20%">Agriculture<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col" width="20%">Industry<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col" width="20%">Services<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">1995 </th> <td style="text-align:right;">8,564 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">208 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,239 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,116 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2000 </th> <td style="text-align:right;">10,576 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">162 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,545 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,869 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">2003 </th> <td style="text-align:right;">12,619 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">185 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,520 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,915 </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Components may not sum to totals due to rounding</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">includes hunting and forestry</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">includes energy and construction</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p>Significant companies in the county include <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars" title="Rolls-Royce Motor Cars">Rolls-Royce Motor Cars</a>, a substantial employer near Chichester. <a href="/wiki/Gatwick_Airport" title="Gatwick Airport">Gatwick Airport</a>, with associated airlines including <a href="/wiki/British_Airways" title="British Airways">British Airways</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Atlantic" title="Virgin Atlantic">Virgin Atlantic</a>, is a major source of direct and indirect employment. <a href="/wiki/Thales_Group" title="Thales Group">Thales Group</a> also has a presence in the county. <a href="/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9" title="Nestlé">Nestlé</a> has their UK headquarters in Crawley. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agriculture">Agriculture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Agriculture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>West Sussex developed distinctive land uses along with its neighbours in the weald. The <a href="/wiki/Landrace" title="Landrace">Landrace</a> cattle transformed into <a href="/wiki/Sussex_cattle" title="Sussex cattle">Sussex cattle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sussex_chicken" title="Sussex chicken">Sussex chickens</a> emerged about the time of the Roman conquest.<sup id="cite_ref-hobson_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hobson-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the earliest evidence of horses in Britain has been found at <a href="/wiki/Boxgrove" title="Boxgrove">Boxgrove</a>, dated to 500,000 BC. Viticulture is a part of the economy, with wineries producing mainly sparkling wine of varied quality.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Table_section_needs_prose plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>is in a table format that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Tables#Prose" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables">may be better</a> if supplemented with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Prose" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Prose">prose</a>.</b><span class="hide-when-compact"> You can help by adding a prose summary of the table(s). <a href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">Editing help</a> is available.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be <b>updated</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Arun_District" title="Arun District">Arun</a> containing the towns of <a href="/wiki/Arundel" title="Arundel">Arundel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bognor_Regis" title="Bognor Regis">Bognor Regis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Littlehampton" title="Littlehampton">Littlehampton</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_settlements_in_West_Sussex_by_population" title="List of settlements in West Sussex by population">List of settlements in West Sussex by population</a></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Population from census to census. Claimants of JSA or Income Support (<a href="/wiki/Department_for_Work_and_Pensions" title="Department for Work and Pensions">DWP</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ons_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ons-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="20%">Area </th> <th scope="col" width="20%">Population (April 2011) </th> <th scope="col" width="20%">JSA or Inc. Supp. claimants (August 2012)  % of 2011 population </th> <th scope="col" width="20%">Population (April 2001) </th> <th scope="col" width="20%">JSA and Income Support claimants (August 2001) % of 2001 population </th></tr> <tr> <th>West Sussex </th> <td style="text-align:right;">806,892 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.7% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">753,614 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.1% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Adur </th> <td style="text-align:right;">61,182 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.2% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">59,627 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6.3% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Arun </th> <td style="text-align:right;">149,518 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.0% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">140,759 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6.4% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Chichester </th> <td style="text-align:right;">113,794 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2.3% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">106,450 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.8% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Crawley </th> <td style="text-align:right;">106,597 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.8% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">99,744 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.3% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Horsham </th> <td style="text-align:right;">131,301 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.9% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">122,088 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.3% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Mid Sussex </th> <td style="text-align:right;">139,860 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.6% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">127,378 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.6% </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Worthing </th> <td style="text-align:right;">104,640 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.6% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">97,568 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6.7% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The current total population of the county makes up 1.53% of England's population. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_West_Sussex" title="List of schools in West Sussex">List of schools in West Sussex</a></div> <p>West Sussex has a comprehensive education system, with a mix of county-maintained secondary schools and <a href="/wiki/Academy_(English_school)" title="Academy (English school)">academies</a> and over twenty independent senior schools. In addition primary education is provided through a mix of around 240 <a href="/wiki/Infant_school" title="Infant school">infant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Junior_school" title="Junior school">junior</a>, <a href="/wiki/Primary_school" title="Primary school">primary</a>, <a href="/wiki/First_school" class="mw-redirect" title="First school">first</a> and <a href="/wiki/Middle_school" title="Middle school">middle</a> schools. </p><p>Colleges include <a href="/wiki/The_College_of_Richard_Collyer" title="The College of Richard Collyer">The College of Richard Collyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_Sussex_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Sussex College">Central Sussex College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northbrook_College" title="Northbrook College">Northbrook College</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Weald_School,_Billingshurst" class="mw-redirect" title="The Weald School, Billingshurst">The Weald School</a>. </p><p>Independent schools in the county include <a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_Hospital" title="Christ's Hospital">Christ's Hospital</a> near <a href="/wiki/Horsham" title="Horsham">Horsham</a>, whose students wear Tudor style uniform, <a href="/wiki/Seaford_College" title="Seaford College">Seaford College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lancing_College" title="Lancing College">Lancing College</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hurstpierpoint_College" title="Hurstpierpoint College">Hurstpierpoint College</a>. </p><p>Tertiary education is provided by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chichester" title="University of Chichester">University of Chichester</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chichester_College" title="Chichester College">Chichester College</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At least 40 sports are active in West Sussex. <a href="/wiki/Sussex_CCC" class="mw-redirect" title="Sussex CCC">Sussex CCC</a> was the first first-class county cricket club, formed in 1839, and was a cradle for club cricket.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sussex is home to <a href="/wiki/Fontwell_Park_Racecourse" title="Fontwell Park Racecourse">Fontwell Park Racecourse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The county has one <a href="/wiki/Football_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Football League">Football League</a> club located in <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a>, that is <a href="/wiki/Crawley_Town_F.C." title="Crawley Town F.C.">Crawley Town F.C.</a><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=West_Sussex&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/BBC_South" title="BBC South">BBC South</a> television covers the county excluding <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burgess_Hill" title="Burgess Hill">Burgess Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Grinstead" title="East Grinstead">East Grinstead</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shoreham-by-Sea" title="Shoreham-by-Sea">Shoreham-by-Sea</a> which are covered by <a href="/wiki/BBC_South_East" title="BBC South East">BBC South East</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/ITV_Meridian" title="ITV Meridian">ITV Meridian</a> also covers the county. <a href="/wiki/Crawley" title="Crawley">Crawley</a> is covered by both regions and by <a href="/wiki/BBC_London" title="BBC London">BBC London</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_London" title="ITV London">ITV London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Sussex" title="BBC Radio Sussex">BBC Radio Sussex</a> is the BBC local radio station for the county, broadcast from studios in <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a>. The commercial local radio station is <a href="/wiki/Heart_South" title="Heart South">Heart South</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Community_radio" title="Community radio">community radio</a> stations in the county are <a href="/wiki/More_Radio_Worthing" title="More Radio Worthing">More Radio Worthing</a> (serving <a href="/wiki/Worthing" title="Worthing">Worthing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shoreham-by-Sea" title="Shoreham-by-Sea">Shoreham</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Littlehampton" title="Littlehampton">Littlehampton</a>), <a href="/wiki/More_Radio_Mid-Sussex" title="More Radio Mid-Sussex">More Radio Mid-Sussex</a> (serving <a href="/wiki/Burgess_Hill" title="Burgess Hill">Burgess Hill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haywards_Heath" title="Haywards Heath">Haywards Heath</a>), <a href="/wiki/107_Meridian_FM" title="107 Meridian FM">107 Meridian FM</a> (for <a href="/wiki/East_Grinstead" title="East Grinstead">East Grinstead</a>) and <a href="/wiki/V2_Radio" title="V2 Radio">V2 Radio</a> (for <a 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