Wilmington
Long Man is a civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, which includes the villages of Wilmington, Milton Street and Folkington. The parish is named after the Long Man of Wilmington, a 69.2-metre chalk figure in the parish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in East Sussex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Wilmington, East Sussex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Mary and St Peter’s Church, Wilmington and Wilmington Priory.
St Mary and St Peter’s Church, Wilmington
Church
Photo: Kevin Gordon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary and St Peter's Church is in the village of Wilmington, East Sussex, England. It is an active Anglican parish church on the deanery of Lewes and Seaford, the archdeaconry of Lewes and Hastings, and the diocese of Chichester.
Wilmington Priory
Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Carey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wilmington Priory was a Benedictine priory in the civil parish of Long Man, East Sussex, England. The surviving building is now owned by the Landmark Trust and let as holiday accommodation. It is both a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.
Long Man of Wilmington
Photo: Shiroi Hane, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Long Man of Wilmington or Wilmington Giant is a hill figure on the steep slopes of Windover Hill near Wilmington, East Sussex, England. It is 6 miles northwest of Eastbourne and 1⁄3 mile south of Wilmington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Litlington and Westdean.
Litlington
Village
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Litlington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cuckmere Valley, in the Wealden district, in the county of East Sussex, England. It is focussed 3 miles ENE of Seaford on the south coast. Litlington is situated 2½ miles southwest of Wilmington.
Westdean
Village
Photo: Ian Cunliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Westdean is a village, which is situated 3½ miles southwest of Wilmington.
Friston
Village
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East Dean and Friston is a civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.The two villages in the parish are in a dry valley on the South Downs – between Eastbourne three miles to the east and Seaford an equal distance to the west. Friston is situated 4 miles south of Wilmington.
Wilmington
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Long Man, Wealden District, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.82137° or 50° 49′ 17″ northLongitude
0.19445° or 0° 11′ 40″ eastElevation
115 feet (35 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WMTOpen location code
9F22R5CV+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 191761678OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2633886Wikidata ID
Q2519177
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Wilmington” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Wilmington”
- Irish: “Wilmington”
- Ladin: “Wilmington (Sussex)”
- Ladin: “Wilmington”
- Polish: “Wilmington (East Sussex)”
- Polish: “Wilmington”
- Swedish: “Wilmington, East Sussex”
- Swedish: “Wilmington”
- Welsh: “Wilmington, Dwyrain Sussex”
- Welsh: “Wilmington”
- “Wilmington”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include The Wilmington Yew and Puddingham Wood.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wilmington”. Photo: Kevin Gordon, CC BY-SA 2.0.