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Herstmonceux Castle Gardens and Grounds

This breathtaking 15th century moated Castle is set within 500 acres of parkland and gardens (including Elizabethan Garden) and is ideal for picnics and woodland walks. At Herstmonceux there is something for all the family…

High Beeches Woodland & Water Gardens

Explore 27 acres of magically beautiful, peaceful woodland and water gardens. Daffodils, bluebells, azaleas, naturalised gentians and glorious autumn colours. Rippling streams,enchanting vistas. Four acres of natural wildflower meadows. Marked trails. Recommended by Christopher Lloyd. Enjoy lunches and teas in the tearoom and tea lawn in restored Victorian farm building…

Highdown Gardens

Unique gardens in disused chalk pit, begun in…

Lewes Castle & Barbican House Museum

Lewes’s imposing Norman castle offers magnificent views across the town and surrounding downland. Barbican House, towered over by the Barbican Gate, is home to an interesting museum of local history and archaeology. A superb scale model of Victorian Lewes provides the centrepiece of a 25 minute audio-visual presentation telling the story of the county town of Sussex. Lewes Castle reopened to the public on 2nd June 2009, after completion of a million-pound restoration project…

Michelham Priory

Enter through the 14th-century gatehouse and wander through beautiful gardens or tour the historic house. Furniture and artefacts trace the property’s religious origins and its development over 800 years to a grand country house. Explore the medieval watermill, working forge, rope museum and dramatic Elizabethan Great Barn. Plenty of free parking, restaurant and gift shop plus special events…

Pallant House Gallery

Museum of the Year 2007, Pallant House Gallery houses one of the best collections of modern British art in the world alongside an exciting programme of temporary…

Parham House & Gardens

One of the top twenty in Simon Jenkins’s book "England’s Thousand Best Houses", Parham is one of the country’s finest Elizabethan examples. Idyllically set in the heart of a 17th century deer park, below the South Downs, the house contains a particularly important collection of needlework, paintings and furniture. The spectacular Long Gallery is the third longest in England. The award winning gardens include a four acre walled garden with stunning herbaceous borders, greenhouse, orchard, potager and herbiary. All the flowers used in the house are home grown. Parham has always been a much-loved family home. Now owned by a charitable trust, the house is lived in by Lady Emma Barnard, her husband James and their family…

Petworth Cottage Museum

A Leconfield Estate Cottage as if it were 1910, when Mary Cummings lived here. A nostalgic and educational reconstruction that takes account of living memories, Mary’s Irish Catholic background and her work as a seamstress. The range is lit, the tea table is laid, the kettle is boiling…

Preston Manor

A delightful Manor House which powerfully evokes the atmosphere of an Edwardian gentry home both ‘upstairs’ and ‘downstairs’. Explore more than twenty rooms over four floors - from the servants’ quarters, kitchens and butler’s pantry in the basement to the attic bedrooms and nursery on the top floor. Plus charming walled gardens, pets’ cemetery and 13th century parish church…

The Priest House

Once a yeoman farmer’s cottage, the 15th century timber-framed house, sits in the picturesque Wealden village of West Hoathly. Standing in a traditional cottage garden, it now contains country furniture, ironwork, textiles and domestic objects displayed in period rooms. The garden includes borders of perennials, shrubs, wild flowers and herbs. Guided tours available…