Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Sussex is blessed with 2 beautiful Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), areas which have been designated solely on account of their natural beauty and with the aim of conserving and enhancing it.

With views across the coast and the countryside The South Downs, stretching from Winchester in the West to Beachy Head in the east, are dotted with dramatic dry valleys, rolling hills and fields, South Downs sheep and a natural beauty that has been protected for many years.

Within the Sussex Downs AONB is the famous Seven Sisters Country Park, named after the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs on the Sussex Heritage Coast. The chalk cliffs, meandering river valley and open chalk grassland, make it one of Britain's finest unspoilt coastlines.

Covering 560 square miles the High Weald is a magnificent and complex landscape of rolling hills, small, irregular fields, abundant woods and hedges, scattered farmsteads and sunken lanes that stretch across the north of Sussex.

Situated on the highest sandy ridge-top of the High Weald is the Ashdown Forest, the largest area of lowland heath in the South East, with 10 square miles of heathland and woodland with open access for everyone.