Seven of the best Sussex vineyards
Wine  
If you’re looking to visit a Sussex vineyard for a tasting, a tour or a bite to eat, these exceptional wine estates are a great place to start.
The historic Sheffield Parkland dates back several centuries and has had many uses including as a deer park and a Second World War camp. It is now grazed with livestock and is a diverse haven for wildlife.
Explore Sheffield Parkland as it gently slopes across grazed fields and leads you down to the riverside flood meadow, parking at the National Trust car park.
Wine  
If you’re looking to visit a Sussex vineyard for a tasting, a tour or a bite to eat, these exceptional wine estates are a great place to start.
Wine  
The largest single estate organic vineyard in the UK, producing award-winning still and sparkling wines.
Accommodation | Hotel | Overnight  
Originally a sixteenth-century coaching inn, The George in Rye is now a beautifully reimagined luxury retreat in the heart of medieval Rye.
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Wine writer and broadcaster Hannah Crosbie embarks on a road trip of the Sussex winelands to visit the vineyards, meet the people and taste the wine putting Sussex on the map. Watch all three episodes now.
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Dine, stay and relax at THE PIG-in the South Downs — a restaurant with rooms where everything starts with the Kitchen Garden.
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Gravetye Manor is the quintessential English manor house hotel and a centre for culinary and horticultural excellence.
Landscape  
Britain’s tallest chalk hill figure. There is no firm evidence about who he is, or why he is there. The figure is cut into the steep slopes of Windover Hill, and is 235 feet high.
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The dramatic Seven Sisters Country Park, with its chalk sea cliffs, chalk grassland and the meandering Cuckmere estuary is set within the South Downs National Park, along the Sussex Heritage Coast.
Overnight | Art | Landscape | Wine  
Small enough to explore in a day, exciting enough to stay for a week, Eastbourne has got it going on. So if you do like to be beside the seaside, here are just some of the things to do, places to stay, eat and drink in Britain’s new cultural hotspot.