National Trust & English Heritage places in West Sussex

Heather, pine and ancient sunken lanes on the highest hill in the South Downs National Park, with Tennyson's favourite view from the Temple of the Winds.

One of England's largest Iron Age hillforts on the South Downs with Neolithic flint mines.

A dramatic dry valley on the South Downs near Brighton with legendary origins and fine views.

Woods, ancient pasture and flint barns on the South Downs above Singleton, with views from Hat Hill, a bat-roost railway tunnel and a circular walk from the village; very limited parking.

A shifting sand and shingle spit at the mouth of Chichester Harbour, with dunes, salt marsh, a sandy beach and harbour views, reached on foot from West Wittering Beach.

Open chalk downland on the South Downs Way with orchid-rich grassland and Weald views.

A rare pocket of open lowland heath among plantation woodland below the South Downs, where heather shelters adders, sand lizards and green tiger beetles.

Heath and broadleaf woodland on the Sussex border south of Haslemere, grazed by belted Galloway cattle, with sandy paths, the Serpent Trail and a free car park on Marley Lane.

A South Downs farm hamlet with a rare donkey wheel and information barn, below Newtimber Hill's ancient woodland and butterfly-rich chalk grassland.

A 3,500-acre South Downs estate near Arundel with woods, parkland, a Roman road, Bronze Age barrows, a hilltop folly and three free car parks.

Kew's wild botanic garden in Sussex, home to the Millennium Seed Bank and 535 acres of gardens.

Heathland common, parkland and River Rother pasture on a medieval strip parish west of Midhurst, with free car parks, grazing cattle and views to the South Downs.

Enchanting garden rooms in the South Downs with the spectacular Tulip Folly and riverside walks.

Boxgrove Priory began around 1107 as a small Benedictine community, initially housing just three monks at the foot of the South Downs.