Sussex, one of world's top destinations in 2025

The best curated guide to East (and West) Sussex. What's on in your county, news, food & drink, sport, miscellaneous, history, humour and recommendations

Nov 24, 2024

📰 On the agenda

“The area is a hotbed of creatives, with designer Martin Brudnizki, florist Millie Proust, and Mumford & Sons’ Ted Dwane all living nearby,” an insider tells Conde Nast Traveller, the magazine having listed Sussex as one of their top 25 places in the world to go to in 2025.

Could West Sussex take the 2025 title of the new Cotswolds? “You never know – we’ve certainly got plenty more vineyards,” the ‘insider’ adds.

Seen in Sussex…

A row erupted recently over plans to rename ‘The Midget’ pub in Abingdon after campaigner deemed it offensive. A counter petition was inevitably launched to keep the name. Meanwhile, one newspaper rummaged up some other pub names. The Juggs in Lewes was mentioned, although the name is “simply an innocent nod to baskets used by fishwives to carry their husbands' catch to market.”

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🍲 Food & Drink

Chalk, at the Wiston Estate, near Pulborough was given ***** in a Telegraph review.

🏡 At Home

How Sussex resident and TV interior designer Sophie Robinson transformed a 'quite ordinary' cottage into a colourful family home. More in Daily Mail

📻 On the radio this week (Thursday), Crowborough celeb Cate Blanchett…

Sussex Miscellaneous

Jimmy Edwards, who died in 1988, was revered as a comedy writer and actor and is buried in Fletching. He served in the RAF, his Dakota shot down at Arnhem in 1944. It resulted in facial injuries requiring plastic surgery, that he disguised with a large handlebar moustache that became his trademark.

In the media

Letter to The Telegraph…

SIR – The Rampion wind farm off the Sussex coast buried a cable from Lancing to Twineham. It is now almost impossible to see where the cable is laid.

It appears that the only reason for not considering this nationally is that the Government has set an impossibly short timescale for completion. The irony of this is that we will fail to achieve net zero in the time allotted and Britain’s landscape will be left completely cluttered with pylons.
Allan Hook, Brighton