In " His Last Bow ", Holmes has retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 – 1904, as chronicled by Watson in his preface to the series of stories entitled " His Last Bow.

It is situated next to the Sussex Downs, which influenced Spence's design of the campus.

Image: Camara-obscura-image. JPG | Image of the South Downs of Sussex as seen in the camera obscura of Foredown Tower, Portslade, England

A night march enabled Montfort's forces to surprise Prince Edward and take the high ground of the Sussex Downs, overlooking the town of Lewes, in preparation for battle.

North of this lie the rolling chalk hills of the South Downs, beyond which lies the well-wooded Sussex Weald.

The South Downs meets the sea at the Seven Sisters, Sussex | Seven SistersThe physical geography of Sussex relies heavily on its lying on the southern part of the Wealden anticline.

He and Connolly would leave the school grounds and set out across the Downs to Beachy Head, or far along the plunging leafy roads that led deep into the Sussex countryside, to villages that might have figured in a Wells novel: Eastdean and Westdean and Jevington.

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Three particular sites were cited: the Dorset AONB threatened by a road plan, the threat of a football stadium in the Sussex Downs AONB, and, larger than any other, a £ 1 billion plan by Imperial College to build thousands of houses and offices on hundreds of acres of AONB land on the Kent Downs at Wye.

In September 2007 government approval was finally given for the development of a new football ground for Brighton and Hove Albion within the boundaries of the Sussex Downs AONB, after a fierce fight by conservationists.

Arundel ( or ) is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England.

Burgess Hill is a civil parish and a town primarily located in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park.

Physically, Wadhurst lies on a high ridge of the Weald-a range of wooded hills running across Sussex and Kent between the North Downs and the South Downs.

Immediately north of the developed area is Lancing Ring, a Nature Reserve, part of the former Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ) and the newly established South Downs National Park.

He also initiated the cutting of the Royal Military Canal in Kent and Sussex, and recruited about 340, 000 volunteers to a militia that would have defended the lines of the South Downs if an invading force had broken through the regular army defences.

According to one story, during the Middle Ages the Devil became so irritated by all the churches being built in Sussex that he decided to dig a channel from the English Channel, through the South Downs, and flood the area.

The western parts in Hampshire and West Sussex, known as the Western Weald, are included in the South Downs National Park.

His second wife Joan Winifred Mather ( m. 21 September 1944 ) died in a riding accident on the Sussex Downs on 26 January 1974.

* Ifield Community College, a school in Crawley, West Sussex

He was born in Bangalore, South India, and educated at Saint Ronan's School in Worthing, West Sussex, and at Cheltenham College, where he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics ; and Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied English literature.

Morris Gould was born in Brighton, Sussex, England, but grew up in Lincolnshire and was educated at Millfield in Somerset, and King's College London.

Category: Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

* Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge is founded.

He was educated at the independent Arundale School in Pulborough, Dorset House School, Worth School, Collyer's Sixth Form College ( all in West Sussex ) and the University of York, where he was a member of Derwent College and read politics.

The two champions from those years competed against teams from the UK for the " College Bowl World Championship ," which were also televised ; in 1978, Stanford University played a team of UK all-stars under College Bowl rules, and in 1979, Davidson College played Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University under University Challenge rules.

Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College ( BHASVIC ) in the Seven Dials area.

Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College ( BHASVIC ), formerly Brighton, Hove & Sussex Grammar School, is a dedicated place of further education, along with the Connaught Centre, Hove Park Sixth Form Centre and Blatchington Mill Sixth Form College.

* 1979: The East Sussex College of Higher Education, including the Chelsea School, merges with Brighton Polytechnic, creating a campus in Eastbourne.

He was educated at Repton School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from where he graduated with a BA degree in History in 1966.

Category: Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

The son of a co-op butcher, Walter and his wife Lilian Mary ( née Peel ), Bennett attended Christ Church, Upper Armley, Church of England School ( in the same class as Barbara Taylor Bradford ) and then Leeds Modern School ( now Lawnswood School ), learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his national service and gained a place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Category: Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

The original location was near to Sidney Sussex College, however it subsequently moved to its present location near Mill Road, Cambridge.

The University of Brighton provides professional aspects of the course through its faculties of health, sciences and engineering, while the University of Sussex provides biological science teaching.

WNNJ in Sussex, New Jersey, provides rock music to the Skylands Region of the state.

St Catherine's Hospice, a charity which provides hospice care to patients throughout West Sussex and Surrey, is based on Malthouse Road in the 19th-century part of Southgate.

It provides a link to Hastings, East Sussex and parts of Kent.

The existence of the rapes before the Norman Conquest provides the most natural explanation of the fact that the two later rapes of Chichester and Arundel are represented in the Domesday Book of the single ' rape of Earl Roger ', William the Conqueror's most important grantee in Sussex.

West Sussex County Council provides all the educational services and staff.

West Sussex County Council, the largest employer in the county, has its headquarters at County Hall, Chichester, and provides a great variety of services, including education, the fire service, social services, highways design and maintenance, town planning, libraries and trading standards.

Sussex would emphasise cross-disciplinary activity, so that students would emerge from the university with a range of background or ' contextual ' knowledge to complement their specialist ' core ' skills in a particular subject area.

The station has a busy daytime schedule and during the evening offers a range of genre programming, all from Sussex students from 10 am to 2 am daily.

* Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex or possibly Cerdic of Wessex ( approximate date ; suggested dates range from 490 to 517 ).

A broad range of mainstream Christian denominations have places of worship in the town, and several others used to be represented ; Protestant Nonconformism has featured especially prominently for the last two centuries, in common with other parts of northern Sussex.

The South Downs is a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east.

The Sussex chicken is an alert, docile breed that can adapt to any surrounding, they are comfortable in both free range or confined spaces and in the presence of humans.