Name
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Image
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Town/City
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Region
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Type
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Summary
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1066 Battle Of Hastings, Abbey & Battlefield |
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Battle |
Rother |
History |
Operated by the English Heritage, includes the abbey ruins, visitor centre, battlefield site
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Alfriston Clergy House |
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Alfriston |
Wealden |
Historic house |
Operated by the National Trust, 14th century Wealden hall house with a thatched roof
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Anne of Cleves House |
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Lewes |
Lewes |
Historic house |
15th century hall house with local history displays, furniture and decorative items from different periods
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Bateman's |
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Burwash |
Rother |
Historic house |
Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century house owned by author Rudyard Kipling, includes working watermill
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Battle Museum of Local History |
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Battle |
Rother |
Local |
website, local history, prehistoric, Roman, medieval, 17th/18th centuries, and local industries such as iron, leather and gunpowder
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Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum |
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Halland |
Wealden |
Multiple |
Palladian mansion with furnishings, automobile museum, gardens, wildfowl reserve, miniature steam train, woodlands
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Bexhill Museum |
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Bexhill-on-Sea |
Rother |
Multiple |
Local history, natural history, fashion, dinosaurs, stone-age life, Ancient Egyptians, military, world cultures, British motor racing
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Bluebell Railway |
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Fletching |
Lewes |
Transport |
Heritage railway with museum displays at the Sheffield Park railway station
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Bodiam Castle |
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Robertsbridge |
Rother |
Historic house |
Operated by the National Trust, 14th century moated castle in ruins, periodic living history demonstrations
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Booth Museum of Natural History |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Natural history |
Victorian-style dioramas of British birds in their habitat settings, butterflies, British fossils, animal bones
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Brede Waterworks |
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Brede |
Rother |
Technology |
Former waterworks with working steam engines
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Brighton Fishing Museum |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Maritime |
Local fishing industry, boats
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Brighton Museum & Art Gallery |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Multiple |
Art, decorative arts, natural history, puppets, fashion, world culture artifacts, Egyptian artifacts, local history
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Brighton Toy and Model Museum |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Toy |
Formerly the Sussex Toy And Model Museum, toys, dolls, model trains, puppets, penny arcade games
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British Engineerium |
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Hove |
Brighton and Hove |
Technology |
Victorian pumping station with beam engines, planned museum
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Charleston Farmhouse |
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Firle |
Lewes |
Historic house |
Country home of the Bloomsbury group, interior decorations by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, exhibit gallery for fine and decorative art
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De La Warr Pavilion |
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Bexhill-on-Sea |
Rother |
Art |
Contemporary arts centre
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Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft |
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Ditchling |
Lewes |
Art |
website, local art, crafts and applied art
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Eastbourne Heritage Centre |
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Eastbourne |
Eastbourne |
Local |
website, operated by the Eastbourne Society
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Eastbourne RNLI Museum |
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Eastbourne |
Eastbourne |
Maritime |
website, history of area lifeboat rescuing, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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Fabrica |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Art |
website, located in a former church, contemporary visual arts exhibitions
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Farley Farm House |
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Chiddingly |
Wealden |
Art |
Home of photographer Lee Miller and biographer of Picasso, Roland Penrose, exhibits of Surrealist and Modern art
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Firle Place |
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Firle |
Lewes |
Historic house |
18th-century country estate with fine art and furnishings, gardens
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Flower Makers' Museum |
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Hastings |
Hastings |
Textile |
information, original company tools of the trade, machines and fabrics for making artificial flowers
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Glynde Place |
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Glynde |
Lewes |
Historic house |
Elizabethan manor house, gardens
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Grange Museum & Art Gallery |
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Rottingdean |
Brighton and Hove |
Multiple |
website, local history, art
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Great Dixter |
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Northiam |
Rother |
Historic house |
Medieval timber-framed manor house, Arts and Crafts style gardens
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Hastings Fishermen's Museum |
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Hastings |
Hastings |
Maritime |
Local fishing industry, boats, The Stade
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Hastings History House |
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Hastings |
Hastings |
Local |
website, local history, operated by the Old Hastings Preservation Society
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Hastings Lifeboat Station |
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Hastings |
Hastings |
Maritime |
website, visitor centre with film, viewing of the lifeboats
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Hastings Museum and Art Gallery |
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Hastings |
Hastings |
Multiple |
Art, local history, art and artifacts of the Indian subcontinent, decorative arts, natural history, Native American artifacts
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Heritage Mill, North Chailey |
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Chailey |
Lewes |
Mill |
Early 19th century windmill
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Herstmonceux Museum |
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Herstmonceux |
Wealden |
History |
old electricity generating station, operated by the Lime Park Heritage Trust[1]
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Hove Museum and Art Gallery |
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Hove |
Brighton and Hove |
Multiple |
Art, contemporary crafts, local history, toys, early cinema artifacts
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How We Lived Then |
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Eastbourne |
Eastbourne |
History |
website, authentic Victorian period shops, room settings, displays covering 100 years of shopping and social history
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Jerwood Gallery |
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Hastings |
Hastings |
Art |
Contemporary art gallery, collection of 20th and 21st century British art
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Kent and East Sussex Railway |
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Northiam |
Rother |
Railway |
Heritage railway, accessed at the Northiam railway station
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Lamb House |
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Rye |
Rother |
Historic house |
Operated by the National Trust, 18th-century house with literary connections including Henry James, E.F. Benson and Rumer Godden
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Lavender Line |
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Isfield |
Wealden |
Railway |
Heritage railway and exhibits including model railway at the Isfield railway station
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Lewes Castle |
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Lewes |
Lewes |
History |
11th century motte and bailey castle, includes Barbican House Museum with archaeology and medieval life displays, and the Town Model of Lewes
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Mechanical Memories Museum |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Amusement |
website, working vintage penny slot machines
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Michelham Priory |
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Upper Dicker |
Wealden |
Open air |
Medieval priory house with furnishings from different periods, historic watermill, rope making museum, replica Iron Age roundhouse and other buildings, art exhibits, gardens
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Monk's House |
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Rodmell |
Lewes |
Historic house |
Operated by the National Trust, 18th century cottage home of author Virginia Woolf and husband Leonard Woolf, connections to the Bloomsbury group
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Newhaven Fort |
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Newhaven |
Lewes |
Military |
Napoleonic-era fort and Martello tower with area military artefacts and memorabilia, exhibits on local military, World War I and World War II
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Newhaven Museum |
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Newhaven |
Lewes |
Multiple |
website, local history, maritime artifacts, operated by the Newhaven Historical Society
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Nutley Windmill |
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Nutley |
Wealden |
Mill |
Early 19th century windmill
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Observatory Science Center |
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Herstmonceux |
Wealden |
Science |
website, located at Herstmonceux Castle estate
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Old Police Cells Museum |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Law enforcement |
History of the Sussex Police, housed in the basement of Brighton Town Hall
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Ovenden's Mill |
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Polegate |
Wealden |
Mill |
Early 19th century windmill
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Paradise Park, Newhaven |
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Newhaven |
Lewes |
Natural history |
website, includes Planet Earth Museum with dinosaurs, fossils, geology, gardens, planthouses
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Pevensey Court House Museum |
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Pevensey |
Wealden |
Local |
website, located in the former courthouse, includes prison cells, exercise yard and stocks, displays of local history
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Preston Manor, Brighton |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Historic house |
Early 20th century period Edwardian manor
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Redoubt Fortress & Military Museum |
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Eastbourne |
Eastbourne |
Military |
Napoleonic-era fort with area military artefacts and memorabilia, includes collections of The Royal Sussex Regiment, Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, vehicles, weapons, uniforms, medals
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Regency Town House |
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Hove |
Brighton and Hove |
Local |
website, 1820s townhouse with focus on the architecture and social history of Brighton & Hove between the 1780s and 1840s
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Royal Pavilion |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Historic house |
Early 19th century former royal seaside retreat, built in Indo-Saracenic style with lavish decorations and chinoiserie furnishings
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Rye Art Gallery |
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Rye |
Rother |
Art |
website, information
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Rye Castle Museum |
|
Rye |
Rother |
Multiple |
Includes the Ypres Tower of the medieval castle, and the East Street Site with local history exhibits
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Rye Heritage Centre |
|
Rye |
Rother |
Local |
website, local history using sound and light show, working collection of old pier amusement machines
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Seaford Museum |
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Seaford |
Lewes |
Local |
Located in a Martello tower, local history, military, period stores and rooms, household items, model railway, maritime heritage
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Shipwreck Museum |
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Hastings |
Hastings |
Maritime |
website, artifacts from local shipwrecks, rocks and fossils, changes in the coast, coastal defense
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Stanmer Rural Museum |
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Stanmer |
Brighton and Hove |
Agriculture |
website, rural life artifacts, farm tools and equipment, wagons, reconstructed blacksmith's forge, household items, operated by the Stanmer Preservation Society
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Stone Cross Windmill |
|
Stone Cross |
Wealden |
Mill |
Late 19th century windmill
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Towner |
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Eastbourne |
Eastbourne |
Art |
Contemporary art museum and gallery
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Volk's Electric Railway |
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Brighton |
Brighton and Hove |
Railway |
Heritage railway that runs along a length of the seafront of Brighton
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West Blatchington Windmill |
|
West Blatchington |
Brighton and Hove |
Mill |
Early 19th century windmill
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Winchelsea Court Hall Museum |
|
Winchelsea |
Rother |
Local |
Local history, maps, models, pictures, seals, local pottery and items of daily life
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Windmill Hill Mill |
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Herstmonceux |
Wealden |
Mill |
Early 19th century windmill
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