West Sussex

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West Sussex

Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & Non-metropolitan county
Region:	South East England
Area: - Total - Admin. council	Ranked 30th 1,991 km² Ranked 27th
Admin HQ:	Chichester
ISO 3166-2:	GB-WSX
ONS code:	45
NUTS 3:	UKJ24
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. Council	Ranked 27th 764,300 384 / km² Ranked 9th
Ethnicity:	96.6% White 1.7% S.Asian
Politics
West Sussex County Council http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/
Executive:	Conservative
Members of Parliament
Peter Bottomley, Nick Gibb, Nick Herbert, Tim Loughton, Francis Maude, Laura Moffatt, Nicholas Soames, Andrew Tyrie
Districts
Worthing Arun Chichester Horsham Crawley Mid Sussex Adur

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial county until 1974 and the coming into force of the Local Government Act 1972. Also at this time the Mid Sussex region (including Haywards Heath and East Grinstead) was transferred from East Sussex.

The highest point of the county is Black Down, at 280m/919ft (grid reference SU919296).

1 Local government districts
2 Towns and villages
3 Places of interest
4 History
5 Economy
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Local government districts

There are seven local government districts within the county of West Sussex:

[edit] Towns and villages

See:

[edit] Places of interest

Amberley Working Museum
Arundel Castle
WWT Arundel (a nature reserve of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust)
Barnham Windmill
Bignor Roman Villa
Bluebell Railway
Bosham Church
Christ's Hospital, an old public school notable for its archaic uniforms and picturesque campus.
Cissbury Ring & Chanctonbury Ring, ancient hill forts located on the South Downs
Fishbourne Roman villa
Gatwick Airport
Goodwood House & Goodwood airfield
High Salvington windmill
Lancing College - a Public School, notable for its substantial Sussex sandstone chapel, large campus and high academic standards
Pallant House gallery
Petworth House
Pooh Bridge - Ashdown Forest
Queen Victoria Hospital [East Grinstead] - Home of the McIndoe Burn's centre. Pioneered reconsturctive surgery for burns patients during the Second World War.
Selsey Bill
Shoreham Airport - the world's oldest continually-operational airport,
South Downs Way - a long distance footpath
Stansted Park
St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly - an 11th Century Anglo-Saxon church
St Mary's Church, Sompting - an 11th Century Anglo-Saxon church.
St Swithuns Church [East Grinstead]
Uppark
Wakehurst Place
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum of Historic Buildings at Singleton
Worth Church - a 10th century church in Worth, Crawley
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery houses the biggest collection of Georgian & Victorian costume in South East England

[edit] History

Main article: History of Sussex.

[edit] Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of West Sussex at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added<ref>Components may not sum to totals due to rounding</ref>	Agriculture<ref>includes hunting and forestry</ref>	Industry<ref>includes energy and construction</ref>	Services<ref>includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured</ref>
1995	8,564	208	2,239	6,116
2000	10,576	162	2,545	7,869
2003	12,619	185	2,520	9,915

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

The River Wey and Wey Navigations Community Site — a non-commercial site of over 200,000 words all about the River Wey including information and images about the source of the Wey at Black Down in West Sussex

United Kingdom • England • Ceremonial counties of England

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Counties of the Lieutenancies Act 1997