8 National Trust places to visit in Sussex, including 5 houses & gardens, 2 gardens, 1 castle. Tick them off your checklist as you go, or explore them on the interactive map.

Rudyard Kipling's beloved Jacobean home with his study, garden, and working watermill.

A picture-perfect 14th-century moated castle with a dramatic exterior and atmospheric ruins inside.

Virginia Woolf's country cottage retreat with personal belongings and a tranquil writer's garden.

A celebrated Sussex garden of intimate rooms, rare plants, and romantic house ruins.

A grand mansion with an outstanding art collection and a 700-acre Capability Brown deer park.

A magnificent 120-acre landscape garden with four lakes, famed for its spectacular autumn colours.

A superb Arts and Crafts house with William Morris interiors and hillside Ashdown Forest views.

An elegant South Downs house with Georgian interiors, restored after a dramatic 1989 fire.