Sussex Border Path, the Glossary
The Sussex Border Path is a long-distance footpath around the borders of Sussex, a historic county and former medieval kingdom in southern England.[1]
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57 relations: Bede, Bewl Water, Blackdown, West Sussex, Bodiam Castle, Brighton and Hove, Ceremonial counties of England, Chichester Harbour, Coat of arms of Sussex, County, Crawley Down, Ditchling, East Grinstead, East Sussex, Emsworth, England, Fishersgate railway station, Flag of Sussex, Forest Way, Gatwick Airport, Gatwick Stream, Greensand Ridge, Groombridge, Hampshire, Hiking, Historic counties of England, Kent, King Charles III England Coast Path, Kingdom of Kent, Kingdom of Sussex, List of long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom, Long Distance Walkers Association, Long-distance trail, Martlet, Mile Oak, National Trails, Portslade, River Rother, East Sussex, Rogate, Romney Marsh, Rye, East Sussex, Scaynes Hill, Sharpthorne, South Coast Plain, South Downs, South Downs Way, Southwick, West Sussex, Surrey, Sussex, The Four Men: A Farrago, The Ramblers, ... Expand index (7 more) »
- County-themed walking routes in the United Kingdom
- Footpaths in East Sussex
- Footpaths in West Sussex
- United Kingdom trail stubs
Bede
Bede (Bēda; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar.
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Bewl Water
Bewl Water is a reservoir in the valley of the River Bewl, straddling the boundary between Kent and East Sussex in England.
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Blackdown, West Sussex
Blackdown, or Black Down, summit elevation AMSL, is the highest point in both the historic county of Sussex and the South Downs National Park.
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Bodiam Castle
Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England.
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Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove is a unitary authority with city status in East Sussex, England.
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Ceremonial counties of England
Ceremonial counties, formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed.
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Chichester Harbour
Chichester Harbour is a large natural harbour in West Sussex and Hampshire.
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Coat of arms of Sussex
A heraldic shield has been associated with the historic county of Sussex since the seventeenth century.
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County
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL.
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Crawley Down
Crawley Down is a village in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England.
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Ditchling
Ditchling is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.
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East Grinstead
East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, south of London, northeast of Brighton, and northeast of the county town of Chichester.
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East Sussex
East Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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Emsworth
Emsworth is a town in the Borough of Havant in the county of Hampshire, on the south coast of England near the border with West Sussex.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Fishersgate railway station
Fishersgate railway station is a railway station in West Sussex, England, serving both the eastern part of Southwick, as well as the western part of Portslade in Brighton and Hove.
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Flag of Sussex
The Flag of Sussex is the flag of the traditional and historic county of Sussex.
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Forest Way
The Forest Way is a linear Country park providing walking, cycling, horse riding and the quiet enjoyment of the countryside. Sussex Border Path and Forest Way are footpaths in East Sussex and long-distance footpaths in England.
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Gatwick Airport
London Gatwick, also known as Gatwick Airport, is the secondary international airport serving London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.
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Gatwick Stream
The Gatwick Stream is a tributary of the River Mole in southern England. Sussex Border Path and Gatwick Stream are west Sussex geography stubs.
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Greensand Ridge
The Greensand Ridge, also known as the Wealden Greensand, is an extensive, prominent, often wooded, mixed greensand/sandstone escarpment in south-east England.
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Groombridge
Groombridge is a village of about 1,600 people.
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Hampshire
Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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Hiking
Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.
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Historic counties of England
The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others.
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Kent
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.
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King Charles III England Coast Path
The King Charles III England Coast Path (KCIIIECP), originally and still commonly known as the England Coast Path, is a long-distance National Trail that will follow the coastline of England.
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Kingdom of Kent
The Kingdom of the Kentish (Cantwara rīce; Regnum Cantuariorum), today referred to as the Kingdom of Kent, was an early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England.
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Kingdom of Sussex
The Kingdom of the South Saxons, today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex (from Suth-sæxe, in turn from Suth-Seaxe or Sūþseaxna rīce, meaning "(land or people of/Kingdom of) the South Saxons"), was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England.
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There are hundreds of long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom designated in publications from public authorities, guidebooks and OS maps.
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Long Distance Walkers Association
The Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) is a British not for profit, volunteer-led association whose aim is "to further the common interests of those who enjoy Long Distance Walking" in rural, urban, mountainous, coastal and moorland areas.
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Long-distance trail
A long-distance trail (or long-distance footpath, track, way, greenway) is a longer recreational trail mainly through rural areas used for hiking, backpacking, cycling, horse riding or cross-country skiing.
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Martlet
A martlet in English heraldry is a mythical bird without feet that never roosts from the moment of its drop-birth until its death fall; martlets are proposed to be continuously on the wing.
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Mile Oak
Mile Oak is a locality forming the northern part of the former parish of Portslade in the northwest corner of the city of Brighton and Hove, England.
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National Trails
National Trails are long distance footpaths and bridleways in England and Wales.
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Portslade
Portslade is a western suburb of the city of Brighton and Hove in the ceremonial county of East Sussex, England.
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River Rother, East Sussex
The River Rother flows for through the English counties of East Sussex and Kent.
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Rogate
Rogate is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, in the Western Rother valley.
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Romney Marsh
Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England.
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Rye, East Sussex
Rye is a town and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede.
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Scaynes Hill
Scaynes Hill is a village in the civil parish of Lindfield Rural in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. Sussex Border Path and Scaynes Hill are west Sussex geography stubs.
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Sharpthorne
Sharpthorne is a village in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, South-East England. Sussex Border Path and Sharpthorne are west Sussex geography stubs.
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South Coast Plain
The South Coast Plain is a natural region in England running along the central south coast in the counties of East and West Sussex and Hampshire. Sussex Border Path and south Coast Plain are west Sussex geography stubs.
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South Downs
The South Downs are a range of chalk hills in the south-eastern coastal counties of England that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east.
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South Downs Way
The South Downs Way is a long distance footpath and bridleway running along the South Downs in southern England. Sussex Border Path and south Downs Way are footpaths in East Sussex, footpaths in West Sussex and long-distance footpaths in England.
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Southwick, West Sussex
Southwick is a town in the Adur district of West Sussex, England located five miles (8 km) west of Brighton.
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Surrey
Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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Sussex
Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.
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The Four Men: A Farrago
The Four Men: A Farrago is a 1911 novel by Hilaire Belloc that describes a long journey on foot across the English county of Sussex from Robertsbridge in the east to Harting in the west.
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The Ramblers
Ramblers is the trading name of the Ramblers Association Great Britain's walking charity.
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Thorney Island (West Sussex)
Thorney Island is an island (effectively a peninsula) that juts into Chichester Harbour in West Sussex.
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Three Bridges–Tunbridge Wells line
The Three Bridges–Tunbridge Wells line is a mostly disused railway line running from Three Bridges (on the Brighton Main Line) in West Sussex to Tunbridge Wells Central in Kent via East Grinstead in West Sussex (East Sussex pre-1974), a distance of.
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Trail blazing
Trail blazing or way marking is the practice of marking paths in outdoor recreational areas with signs or markings that follow each other at certain, though not necessarily exactly defined, distances and mark the direction of the trail.
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Wessex
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.
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West Sussex
West Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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West Sussex County Council
West Sussex County Council is the upper tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of West Sussex in England.
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Western Weald
The western Weald is an area of undulating countryside in Hampshire and West Sussex containing a mixture of woodland and heathland areas.
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See also
County-themed walking routes in the United Kingdom
- Buckinghamshire Way
- Clwydian Way
- Cumbria Way
- East Devon Way
- Essex Way
- Gloucestershire Way
- Herefordshire Trail
- Hertfordshire Border Walk
- Hertfordshire Chain Walk
- Hertfordshire Way
- Middlesex Greenway (Middlesex)
- Monmouthshire Way
- North Cheshire Way
- Oxfordshire Way
- Shropshire Way
- South Cheshire Way
- Staffordshire Way
- Sussex Border Path
- West Devon Way
- Worcestershire Way
Footpaths in East Sussex
- 1066 Country Walk
- Cuckoo Trail
- Forest Way
- High Weald Landscape Trail
- Recreational walks in East Sussex
- Royal Military Canal Path
- Saxon Shore Way
- South Downs Way
- Sussex Border Path
- Sussex Ouse Valley Way
- Vanguard Way
Footpaths in West Sussex
- Downs Link
- High Weald Landscape Trail
- Monarch's Way
- New Lipchis Way
- Serpent Trail
- South Downs Way
- Sussex Border Path
- Sussex Ouse Valley Way
- Wey South Path
- Worth Way
United Kingdom trail stubs
- Abbeys Amble
- Ainsty Bounds Walk
- Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge
- Bishop Bennet Way
- Brontë Way
- Chiltern Way
- Clywedog Trail
- Cross Britain Way
- Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk
- Five Pits Trail
- Gordon Way
- Goyt Way
- Grafton Way (footpath)
- Hangers Way
- Hillend Loch Railway Path
- Hornsea Rail Trail
- Iceni Way
- Jubilee Greenway
- Kirklees Way
- Landsker Borderlands Trail
- Limestone Link
- Monmouthshire Way
- Moray Way
- Rochdale Way
- Royal Military Canal Path
- Saint Illtyd's Walk
- Shipwrights Way
- Snowdonia Slate Trail
- Snowdonia Way
- Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway
- St Bega's Way
- Sussex Border Path
- Sussex Ouse Valley Way
- The White Rose Way
- Tour of the Lake District
- Ulster Way
- Valeways Millennium Heritage Trail
- Wessex Ridgeway
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Border_Path
, Thorney Island (West Sussex), Three Bridges–Tunbridge Wells line, Trail blazing, Wessex, West Sussex, West Sussex County Council, Western Weald.