East Sussex

East Sussex
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County
Region:	South East England
Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 33rd 1,792 km² Ranked 30th 1,709 km²
Admin HQ:	Lewes
:	GB-ESX
ONS code:	21
NUTS 3:	UKJ22
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 28th 744,142 415 / km² Ranked 26th 494,258
Ethnicity:	96.5% White 1.0% S.Asian
Politics
East Sussex County Council http://www.eastsussexcc.gov.uk/
Executive:	Conservative
Members of Parliament
Norman Baker, Gregory Barker, Ivor Caplin, Michael Foster, Charles Hendry, David Lepper, Desmond Turner, Nigel Waterson
Districts
Hastings Rother Wealden Eastbourne Lewes Brighton & Hove; (Unitary)

East Sussex is an county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex and, to the south, by the English Channel.

The county town of East Sussex is Lewes. The county of Sussex was divided into an eastern and western administrative regions, with separate county councils in 1888 but it remained a single county until 1974 when the new counties of East Sussex and West Sussex were created. The Mid Sussex region (including Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath) was transferred to the administrative county of West Sussex. In 1997, Brighton & Hove; became a self administered unitary authority and was eventually granted city status in 2000.

Towns and villages

• Bexhill-on-Sea
• Crowborough
• Ditchling
• Eastbourne
• Falmer
• Hailsham, Hastings, Heathfield
• Lewes
• Mayfield
• Newhaven
• Peacehaven, Pevensey, Polegate, Portslade
• Rye
• Seaford
• Uckfield
• Wadhurst, Willingdon

Places of interest

• Ashdown Forest
• Beachy Head
• Bodiam Castle
• Ditchling Common
• Heritage railways: Bluebell Railway, Lavender Line Steam Railway
• Herstmonceux
• South Downs Way, a long distance footpath
• University of Sussex

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