West Sussex Cottages Rent Sidlesham

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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 (2004 est. ) - Density - Admin. Council	Ranked / km² Ranked
Ethnicity:	96.6% White 1.7% S.Asian
Politics
West Sussex County Council http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/
Executive:
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. (GR SU919296)

Local government districts

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

• Adur
• Arun
• Chichester
• Crawley
• Horsham
• Mid Sussex
• Worthing

Towns and villages

See:

• list of places in West Sussex
• :Category:Villages in West Sussex

Places of interest

• Amberley Museum, Arundel Castle, WWT Arundel (a nature reserve of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust)
• Barnham Windmill, Bignor Roman Villa, Bluebell Railway
• 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
• Lancing Collegea Public School, notable buildings, chapel and campus - and for high academic standards
• Gatwick Airport, Goodwood House
• High Salvington windmill
• Pallant House gallery
• Selsey Bill, Shoreham Airport - the worlds oldest continually-operational airport,
• South Downs Way - a long distance footpath
• Stansted Park
• St Mary's Church, Sompting - an 11th Century Anglo-Saxon church.
• Wakehurst Place
• St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly - an 11th Century Anglo-Saxon church.
• Bosham Church.

History

Main article: History of Sussex.

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 Added4	Agriculture1	Industry2	Services3
1995	8,564	208	2,239	6,116
2000	10,576	162	2,545	7,869
2003	12,619	185	2,520	9,915

Note 1: includes hunting and forestry

Note 2: includes energy and construction

Note 3: includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

Note 4: Components may not sum to totals due to rounding



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