West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the South East of . is to the west, is to the north, to the east and the English Channel with its beaches to the south.
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Top destinations include Chichester and Crawley.

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is a cathedral city in West Sussex, on South East coast. is famous for the annual Festivities and the Real Ale and Jazz Festival.

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is a bustling town of 119,000 people in the northern part of West Sussex, on the border with , in the South East of England. The biggest influence on the town is , which many people claiming it to being the 6th-busiest airport in the world.

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is the largest town in West Sussex. The town lies nestled between the English Channel and the National Park. It is a seaside town with a pier, a prom and pleasant seaside parks.

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is a traditional English market town in West Sussex. The first mention of was in King Eadred's land charter of AD 947. The town had connections to the sale of horses and recent ideas suggest the name might be derived from "Horse Ham", meaning "a settlement where horses are kept".

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, also known as Bognor, is a town, seaside resort and civil parish in the Arun district, in West Sussex on the south coast of England, 56 miles south-west of , 24 miles west of , 6 miles south-east of and 16 miles east of .

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is a town in West Sussex in southeast England, with a population in 2021 of about 3500. Its main attraction is the medieval castle.

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is a seaside town in West Sussex. It lies midway on the Sussex coast between and . It is just over 15 miles west from the larger tourist area of Brighton and 55 miles south of …

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is a town in West Sussex, between and Brighton. It is the seat of Adur District which includes the parishes of Coombes, Lancing and Sompting.

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is a small town in West Sussex. The name means "seal island" - although it's been part of the mainland since prehistory, the marshes to the north and west restrict access.

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is a town and civil parish in West Sussex, England, close to the border with , on the edge of the South Downs National Park, 39 mi south of , 10 mi north of , and 29 mi northeast of the county town, .

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is a vivid, picturesque town in the eastern part of West Sussex. The town has been described by many to have a large collection of Edwardian and Victorian houses, many of which you can still see today in the area.

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is a town in West Sussex, in the South East of England. The town is on the Greenwich Meridian. It has many historic buildings, and the Weald and Ashdown Forest lie to the south-east.

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is a market town and civil parish in the in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother, 20 miles inland from the and 12 miles north of .

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is a coastal village, ecclesiastical parish and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex, England, centred about 2 miles west of Chichester with its clustered developed part west of this.

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is a 200-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in West Sussex. It is a coastal bay on the west side of the Manhood Peninsula known for windsurfing, kitesurfing, and scuba diving in the wrecks off the shore.

West Sussex

Latitude of center
50.9559° or 50° 57′ 21″ north
Longitude of center
-0.4947° or 0° 29′ 41″ west
Population
840,000
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
Geo­Names ID
11609022
Wiki­data ID
Q23287
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“West Sussex” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wes-Sussex”
  • Arabic: “غرب ساسكس”
  • Arabic: “ويست ساسكس”
  • Armenian: “Արևմտյան Սասեքս”
  • Asturian: “Sussex Occidental”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uest Sasseks”
  • Balinese: “Sussex Kauh”
  • Basque: “Mendebaldeko Sussex”
  • Bavarian: “West Sussex”
  • Belarusian: “Заходні Сасэкс”
  • Belarusian: “Заходні Сусекс”
  • Belarusian: “Заходні Сусэкс”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েস্ট সাসেক্স”
  • Breton: “Kornôg Sussex”
  • Bulgarian: “Западен Съсекс”
  • Catalan: “Sussex Occidental”
  • Catalan: “West Sussex”
  • Cebuano: “West Sussex”
  • Chinese: “West Sussex”
  • Chinese: “西修適士”
  • Chinese: “西修適士郡”
  • Chinese: “西萨塞克斯郡”
  • Chinese: “西薩塞克斯郡”
  • Corsican: “Sussex Occidentale”
  • Croatian: “West Sussex”
  • Croatian: “Zapadni Sussex”
  • Czech: “Západní Sussex”
  • Danish: “West Sussex”
  • Dutch: “West Sussex”
  • Esperanto: “West Sussex”
  • Estonian: “Lääne-Sussex”
  • Finnish: “West Sussex”
  • French: “Sussex de l’Ouest”
  • Galician: “West Sussex”
  • Georgian: “დასავლეთი სასექსი”
  • German: “West Sussex”
  • German: “West-Sussex”
  • Greek: “Δυτικό Σάσσεξ”
  • Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમ સુસેક્સ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “West Sussex”
  • Hebrew: “מערב סאסקס”
  • Hebrew: “סאסקס מערב”
  • Hindi: “वेस्ट ससेक्स”
  • Hungarian: “West Sussex”
  • Icelandic: “Vestur-Sussex”
  • Indonesian: “Sussex Barat”
  • Indonesian: “West Sussex”
  • Interlingua: “West Sussex”
  • Irish: “Sussex Thiar”
  • Italian: “Sussex Occidentale”
  • Italian: “West Sussex”
  • Japanese: “ウェスト・サセックス”
  • Japanese: “西サセックス”
  • Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಸಸೆಕ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “웨스트서식스주”
  • Ladin: “West Sussex”
  • Latin: “Sussexia Occidentalis”
  • Latvian: “Rietumsaseksa”
  • Latvian: “Vestsaseksa”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakarų Saseksas”
  • Luxembourgish: “West Sussex”
  • Macedonian: “Западен Сасекс”
  • Manx: “Sussex Heear”
  • Marathi: “वेस्ट ससेक्स”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “West Sussex”
  • Northern Frisian: “West Sussex”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “West Sussex”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “West Sussex”
  • Norwegian: “West Sussex”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sussex Occidental”
  • Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Сассекс”
  • Persian: “ساسکس غربی”
  • Polish: “West Sussex”
  • Portuguese: “Sussex do Oeste”
  • Portuguese: “Sussex Ocidental”
  • Portuguese: “West Sussex”
  • Romanian: “West Sussex”
  • Russian: “Западный Суссекс”
  • Scots: “Wast Sussex”
  • Serbian: “Западни Сасекс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “West Sussex”
  • Sicilian: “West Sussex”
  • Slovak: “West Sussex”
  • Slovenian: “West Sussex”
  • Spanish: “Sussex Occidental”
  • Swedish: “West Sussex”
  • Tajik: “Сусекси Ғарбӣ”
  • Tajik: “Суссекси Ҷанубӣ”
  • Tamil: “மேற்கு சுஸெஸ்”
  • Telugu: “వెస్ట్ సస్సెక్స్”
  • Thai: “เวสต์ซัสเซกซ์”
  • Turkish: “Batı Sussex”
  • Turkish: “Törensel Batı Sussex Kontluğu”
  • Ukrainian: “Західний Сассекс”
  • Urdu: “مغربی سسیکس”
  • Urdu: “ویسٹ سسکز”
  • Venetian: “West Sussex”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây Sussex”
  • Vietnamese: “West Sussex”
  • Volapük: “West Sussex”
  • Waray (Philippines): “West Sussex”
  • Welsh: “Gorllewin Sussex”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیندا سسکس”
  • Wu Chinese: “西萨塞克斯郡”
  • Yiddish: “וועסט סאסעקס”
  • Yiddish: “מערב סאסעקס”
  • Yue Chinese: “西修適士”

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