SUSSEX TOP ATTRACTIONS
LINKS
Please note this page of links is maintained separately by different
sources to the rest of the Sussex Top Attractions web site.
ACCOMMODATION
For accommodation information and other Sussex tourist
information:
if you know roughly whereabouts in Sussex you want to stay contact one of the
Tourist Information Centres.
Otherwise try
Tourism South East
Visit Sussex
1066 Country
Visit Britain
B & B around Lewes
Ashdown Forest Tourism
Association
AA Hotel Finder
Best Western Hotels Rye and District Hotels and Caterers Association
Hastings &
St. Leonards Hotels & Tourism Association
Brighton
accommodation
Brighton &
Hove Hotels' Association Eastbourne
accommodation
The
Eastbourne Hotels' Association
Worthing accommodation Chichester accommodation
If all this fails, just try a Google search using the name of the area or place where you wish to stay with the word 'accommodation'.
Historic Houses and Gardens:
Two good sources of information for historic houses, corporate entertaining and
wedding locations can be found at Hudson's
Historic Houses and Gardens and Johansens
Historic Houses, Castles and Gardens
For gardens the best results are obtained by making a Google search on
"Sussex gardens", and there's also the National
Gardens Scheme
Local Radio
These may be called the principal ones, but there are many others with
limited geographical coverage and specialist content. Again, for best
results Google "Sussex Radio Stations".
The BBC
Southern Counties Radio website for Sussex and Surrey
Southern FM
Sovereign Radio
Gatwick Airport Info
Sussex
Churches
There are hundreds of Parish Churches in Sussex, and very many are open
during the daytime for visitors. Besides being principally places of
worship, these parish churches are also a vast collection of interesting
architecture, history, furnishings, statuary, stained glass and much else
besides.
See also the Sacred Sussex web
pages, and Chichester
Cathedral
Approved Marriage Premises
There are now very many venues in East and West Sussex where you can be
married, and here are the links for venues in East
Sussex and for West
Sussex
It is the responsibility of the County Councils to license premises for
marriages.
The Arts in Sussex
For caravan and camp sites:
A very useful new site is the Campsite
and Caravansite finder: find all the top caravan sites, campsites and
camping parks all over England.
At the time of writing there are 42 entries for East Sussex, and 45 for West
Sussex, with a good Googlemap which shows exactly where they are with added
useful details. This is the one to use.
UK Camp Site - the Internet directory for caravanners and campers.
The Dedicated Partnership's UK Camp Site
(these two are different although they have the same name) and
The Camping and
Caravanning Club
A Google search on "Sussex Camp Sites" and ditto for caravan sites also produces plenty of results.
Cycling around Sussex
For best results look at the Sustrans
web pages, and put "Sussex" into their search boxes.
Sustrans is the UK's leading sustainable transport charity.
It is also associated with the National
Cycle Network
The County Councils' tourism and leisure pages
within:
East Sussex County Council
West Sussex County Council
Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority
By far the most comprehensive list of Sussex links, Sussex information, local newspapers, local radio, the arts, leisure and tourism is the list provided by the East Sussex County Council Information Services Unit - the ISU, managed by the Libraries, Information and Arts Service. ESCIS holds information about 8174 organisations based in East Sussex and Brighton and Hove [Mar 2009].
There is an equivalent in West Sussex; start at http://doompalm.westsussex.gov.uk/cgi-bin/civis_server.sh which lists over 3,000 local clubs and organisations in that area.
The Good Pub Guide and The Good Guide to Britain
contain useful Sussex information: visit Good
Guides
There's only one major brewery in Sussex now - Harveys
in Lewes.
See also the CAMRA (Campaign for
Real Ale) site for Sussex pub details.
For local food and produce in Sussex and information on
Farmers' Markets and similar, see A
Taste of Sussex
also the Sussex
Foodfinder and www.farmersmarkets.net
Public Transport in Sussex
UK Public Transport: for public rail, air, coach, bus, ferry, metro and tram details: Traveline also Tel: 0871 200 22 33
For all travel information, bus, train, ferry, walking, cycling ... and also car
share opportunities,
Travelchoice is a very good site,
but covers East Sussex only.
National Rail Enquiries Tel: +44 (0)8457 48 49 50
National Train Timetables, railway information and tickets: www.nationalrail.co.uk
and the trainline
Also very useful is Transportdirect.info
Britain's free online journey planner
Other train operating companies in Sussex are
South
Eastern Trains, Southern
Trains, Thameslink,
Gatwick
Express,
Virgin Trains
The Newhaven - Dieppe crossing is operated by Transmanche
Ferries
The Newhaven - Le Havre crossing is no
longer operated.
Road and Traffic Information: the AA and the RAC; for route planning the AA web site is very good otherwise there's Mappy and Multimap. ViaMichelin is very comprehensive about Britain and Europe.
Maps and Guides
The Ordnance Survey
pages provide excellent up to date maps of the whole of the UK.
Otherwise for maps and mapping visit www.streetmap.co.uk (who provide the maps for the pages on this site); and Googlemaps are excellent in every way. Their satellite pictures give you a very good idea of how rural and unspoilt most of Sussex really is.
Maps, guides and everything else to do with travel can be purchased at www.mapsworldwide.co.uk as well as www.elstead.co.uk and www.stanfords.co.uk
Weather Forecasts: The Meteorological Office and the BBC Weather Centre
Tide times: The best information is from the UK Hydrographic Office. Please take care if you want tide times in the Chichester area, or anywhere near the Solent, but elsewhere in Sussex from Rye to Bognor Regis you can add or subtract a few minutes to Brighton or Eastbourne tide times. Also note if the tables give GMT or BST times.
For information about the South Downs - an Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty and now the South Downs National
Park, (Cretaceous Park), see the South Downs
Online. Information
on South Downs Way can also be found at
www.nationaltrail.co.uk
The High
Weald of Sussex is also an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and so is
the Chichester Harbour area.
Ashdown Forest has a community website and for general information about walking, cycling and horse-riding in Sussex see www.ruralways.org.uk/
Sussex Wildlife: the Sussex Wildlife Trust is the place to start.
Sussex Sport: a Google search on Sussex
Sport is not very helpful but
Sussex Cricket happens at the
Sussex County Cricket Club ground.
For golf try these two: www.sussexgolfguide.com/
and www.sussexgolf.org/
Good Sussex Beaches:
see the Marine Conservation Society
Good Beach Guide.
There are also Blue Flag beaches.
Craftwork: the Sussex Guild is a group of professional designers and makers of fine contemporary and traditional craftwork, whose members live and work in Sussex and the adjoining counties of Kent, Surrey and Hampshire.
Records and Genealogy: see the
East Sussex Record Office and
the
West Sussex Record Office
Links: Sussex Top Attractions Ltd would be interested to know of other useful links - please email us with details.
Tourist attractions in south east England: here is a fairly comprehensive googlemap. Please tell us of any errors and omissions.
