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Bluebell Vineyard Estates
Wine
Home to the award-winning range of Hindleap sparkling wines and Ashdown still wines.
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
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.
To watch and enjoy these wildlife experiences you can explore much of the site through a network of paths with five birdwatching hides accessible to most wheelchairs.
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Tack Barn
Accommodation | Overnight | Self-catering | Sustainable travel
Tucked away in its own waterside woodland near Lewes, the Tack Barn is a beautiful and sustainable holiday cottage kitted out with art and crafts by local makers.
Albourne Estate: English still wines are on the rise
News | Wine
Alison Nightingale, the force of nature behind Albourne Estate, gives us the inside line on what’s happening in English wine. And it seems sparkling wine isn’t the only story in town.
Bonfire Night
Events
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The Rathfinny Cottage
Accommodation | Overnight | Self-catering
Get away from it all at this picturesque cottage situated among 600-acres of vines on the Rathfinny Wine Estate.
Ashdown Forest
Landscape
Originally a deer hunting forest in Norman times, Ashdown Forest is now one of the largest free public access spaces in the South East. It is a great place for walking and enjoying spectacular views over the Sussex countryside. It is known the world over as the ‘home’ of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Farleys House and Gallery
Art
Visit the extraordinary Sussex home of photographer Lee Miller and Surrealist artist Roland Penrose, whose guests included Picasso, Man Ray and Miró.
Escape to Sussex: 7 boutique getaways near London
News
As well as extraordinary art, wines and scenery, Sussex is blessed with a stellar choice of places to stay – all within easy reach of London.
“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.
