West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in the South East of England. Hampshire is to the west, Surrey is to the north, East Sussex to the east and the English Channel with its beaches to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Billingshurst railway station and The Parish Church of St Mary.
Billingshurst railway station
Railway station
Photo: Hassocks5489, Public domain.
Billingshurst Railway Station serves the market town of Billingshurst, in West Sussex, England. It is on the Arun Valley Line 44 miles 71 chains down the line from London Bridge via Redhill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horsham and Southwater.
Horsham
Photo: Arriva436, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Horsham is a traditional English market town in West Sussex. The first mention of Horsham 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".
Southwater
Village
Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, CC0.
Southwater is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, with a population of roughly 10,000. It is administered within Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council.
Pulborough
Village
West Sussex
- Type: County with 892,000 residents
- Also known as: “County of West Sussex”
- Category: locality
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51° northLongitude
-0.4167° or 0° 25′ westPopulation
892,000Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)Abbreviation
“WSX”Open location code
9C3X2H2M+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 302323773OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
2634258
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“West Sussex” goes by many names.
- French: “Sussex de l’Ouest”
- German: “West Sussex”
- Portuguese: “West Sussex”
- Spanish: “Sussex Occidental”
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