Ditchling Beacon
Ditchling Beacon is the highest point in East Sussex, England, with an elevation of 248 m. It is south of Ditchling and to the north-east of Brighton. It is a large chalk hill with a particularly steep northern face, covered with open grassland and sheep-grazing areas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hassocks5489, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 814 feet
- Description: hill in East Sussex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Duchling Beacon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft and Plumpton College.
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Photo: Abby Butcher, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is located in Ditchling, East Sussex, England. It specialises in showcasing the artists and craftspeople who made Ditchling a creative hub in the 20th century, such as Eric Gill, the sculptor, printmaker and typeface designer, Edward Johnston, designer of the London Underground font, and printer Hilary Pepler.
Plumpton College
College
Plumpton College is a Further and Higher education college in Plumpton, East Sussex, England, with courses in a variety of land based and related subjects.
Plumpton Place
Manor estate
Photo: Simon Carey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plumpton Place is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ditchling and Sussex.
Ditchling
Photo: Paste, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ditchling is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is contained within the boundaries of the South Downs National Park; the order confirming the establishment of the park was signed in Ditchling.
Sussex
Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sussex in the United Kingdom may refer to one of the two counties of East Sussex and West Sussex in South East England.
Keymer
Village
Photo: Paste, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Keymer is a village in the civil parish of Hassocks, in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the B2116 road 2.4 miles south of Burgess Hill.
Ditchling Beacon
- Categories: hill, tourism, tourist attraction, and landform
- Location: Westmeston, Lewes, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.90172° or 50° 54′ 6″ northLongitude
-0.10759° or 0° 6′ 27″ westElevation
814 feet (248 metres)Open location code
9C2XWV2R+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 33825466OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_pointOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ditchling Beacon” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ditchling Beacon”
- Dutch: “Ditchling Beacon”
- Japanese: “ディッチリング・ビーコン”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ditchling Beacon”
- Swedish: “Ditchling Beacon”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Martin’s and Ditchling Beacon dew pond.
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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 “Ditchling Beacon”. Photo: Hassocks5489, Public domain.