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Creative Adventures for Curious Kids: Summer Holiday 2025 Highlights Across Sussex
Events | Art
This summer, Sussex’s cultural spaces offer a vibrant mix of opportunities for children and families to explore, make and play.
Malling Down Nature Reserve
This downland nature reserve sits on the fringes of the county town of Lewes. The Iron Age hill fort of Mount Caburn can be accessed from here and is a 15-minute walk up from Glynde village. It has beautiful views out to the sea.
Explore this area of superb chalk grassland with many typical and rare flowers and butterflies, all within easy walking distance of Lewes town centre.
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Wine People: Adderley Pelly, Stopham Vineyard
Wine
Adderley Pelly, Vineyard Manager at Stopham Estate, gives us a peek into her daily routines and the rhythms of the wine year.
The Turner Prize comes to Sussex in 2023
News | Art
Big news for Sussex, as Eastbourne’s iconic Towner gallery is confirmed to host next year’s Turner Prize. The prize forms part of ‘Towner 100’ – the gallery’s year-long centenary celebration of arts and culture across Eastbourne, and is set to bring transformative cultural and social experiences for visitors and residents of this popular seaside destination.
Art and Place: Sussex’s Cultural Landscape This Summer
Art
Here's our pick of the biggest exhibitions to see across Sussex this summer.
Tinwood Boutique Lodges
Accommodation | Overnight
Stay the night at Tinwood Wine Estate near Chichester, in one of three luxury vineyard lodges with views of the vines.
Lewes: All in the Making
Story | Art | Landscape | Wine
The lively town of Lewes (pronounced as two syllables: Lew-es) is the ideal centre for exploring this green part of Sussex. Its orbit reaches over the South Downs National Park to the village of Ditchling, along the Ouse Valley and across towards Brighton.
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Landscape
Sussex Wildlife Trust’s nature reserve is a 465 hectares mosaic of coastal habitats – shingle, saltmarsh, saline lagoons, coastal grazing marsh, freshwater ditches and gravel pits, and reedbeds. It is home to 4,500 species of plants and animals of which more than 300 are nationally rare or endangered.
“Tillingham is starting to resemble what a farm once was”
Wine
Ben Walgate is at the vanguard of regenerative farming in Sussex. His dynamic vineyard and winery, Tillingham— in Peasmarsh near Rye— is the antidote to large-scale winemaking. We meet him at the farm on an autumn day to find out what brought him here—and where Tillingham is going.
Tillingham
Wine
Set amongst 70 acres of rolling hills and woodlands with far reaching views along the Tillingham River valley.
