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Tourist Guide for Ditchling East Sussex

History

Since Saxon times, Ditchling has been home and workplace to generations of villagers. The museum's galleries show their work alongside objects made by craftspeople today.

The museum is housed in the Victorian school and schoolhouse, built in 1836 and extended in 1887. The school was used as a meeting place, as the venue for the Horticultural Society Flower Shows and home to the first schoolmaster. The school closed in 1983 and the site was purchased by two sisters Joanna and Hilary Bourne to establish a museum to celebrate the history of this remarkable village.

The award winning Hilary Bourne Gallery displays the work of the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, the Roman Catholic community established by Eric Gill, Hilary Pepler and Desmond Chute in 1921.



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Seaside Activities

Directions

Sussex is only 90 minutes drive from London. Take the A24/A29 via Horsham or the A23/A27 via Gatwick and Crawley.

If you are traveling from the West or East of England take the A27 from Porstmouth or Newhaven. The A259 connects the coastal resort towns.

For further information contact the RAC

 

Ferries

Continental ferries run from Portsmouth www.portsmouth-port.co.uk and Newhaven www.hoverspeed.com.

Airports

There are two airports in the counties of East and West Sussex Gatwick Airport in the north Shoreham Airport to the west.

Trains

Sussex has good rail links which make it easily accessible from the rest of the country and overseas.

Direct services are available from :-

  • London - numerous train services run from London Victoria to the south coast towns.
  • Scotland
  • the North West
  • the Midlands
  • the West Country
  • South Wales

For timetables please telephone National Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950.
For further information contact National Train Enquiries

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