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Sussex is a historic county and cultural region in the south of England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.It is bounded on the north by Surrey, north-east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West Sussex and East Sussex and the city of Brighton and Hove.
Originally, the border between Kent and Sussex (later East Sussex) ran through the towns of Tunbridge Wells and Lamberhurst. In 1894, by the Local Government Act, the parts of these towns that lay in East Sussex were absorbed by Kent. During the Second World War, much of the Battle of Britain was fought in the skies over Kent.
The major geographical features of the county are determined by a series of ridges running from west to east across the county. These ridges are the remains of the Wealden dome, a denuded anticline across Kent, Surrey and Sussex, which was the result of uplifting caused by the Alpine movements between 10-20 million years ago.
The map annotates the names of the peoples of Essex and Sussex taken into the Kingdom of Wessex, which later took in the Kingdom of Kent and became the senior dynasty, and the outlier kingdoms. From Bartholomew's A literary & historical atlas of Europe (1914)
Map of Sussex in 1851 showing the six Rapes. A rape is a traditional territorial sub-division of Sussex, formerly used for various administrative purposes. [72] Their origin is unknown, but they appear to predate the Norman Conquest [73] Each rape was split into several hundreds and may be Romano-British or Anglo-Saxon in origin. [74]
View south across the Weald of Kent as seen from the North Downs Way near Detling. The Weald (/ ˈ w iː l d /) is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It crosses the counties of Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, and Kent.
1938: Green Belt (London and Home Counties) Act limited development in parts of Middlesex, Kent, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Essex, Berkshire, and Hertfordshire. 1948: The Home Counties Brigade was formed to administer the infantry regiments of the City and County of London, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex.
The Kent and East Sussex (County Boundaries) Order 1993 [30] Changes to the Wealden (East Sussex)/Tunbridge Wells (Kent) boundary: Report No. 684: East Sussex (Further Review) August 1992 1 April 1995: The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994 [31] Changes to the. Slough (Berkshire)/South Bucks (Buckinghamshire ...