What is Sussex famous for?

[chimneys]

So why is there a Sussex, an Essex, a Wessex (if unofficial these days) but no, er, Nossex?


Or Nussex.

This appears to be very much a No-Sex county for a number of the posters on here!

 

[Yoda]

The world's oldest operating electric railway.

 

[Jahooli]

Practically anyone with an interest in brass bands would know that cracking tune Sussex by the Sea.

 

[Jahooli]

Cricket invented here (actually not many know that one)

Are you sure?
The Bat and Ball nr Waterlooville Hampshire claims to be where the rules were finalised and written down.

Pub details: Bat Ball in Waterlooville, Hampshire

Good destination for sunshine bikers.

 

[Gazwag]

of course, there isn't a County of Sussex

 

[Paskman]

No with loyalty like that you'l be the next after Reid's had enough.

OK I'll try again:

Brighton
Brighton rock
Brighton and Hove Albion
Brighton Pier - or more correctly the Palace Pier
Max Miller
Steve Ovett
Aubrey Beardsley
Frank Bridge
Michael Fish
The invention of television
Lewes Bonfire
Glorious Goodwood
The Brighton Belle
The Royal Pavilion
Elgar's Cello Concerto
Blake's Jerusalem (Parry wrote the music in Sussex as well)
Maurice Tate
etc etc

 

[Norman Potting]

OK I'll try again:

Brighton
Brighton rock
Brighton and Hove Albion
Brighton Pier - or more correctly the Palace Pier
Max Miller
Steve Ovett
Aubrey Beardsley
Frank Bridge
Michael Fish
The invention of television
Lewes Bonfire
Glorious Goodwood
The Brighton Belle
The Royal Pavilion
Elgar's Cello Concerto
Blake's Jerusalem (Parry wrote the music in Sussex as well)
Maurice Tate
etc etc

Also

Bluebell Railway (first standard gauge preserved passenger railway)
The Cure
Harvey's Beer (suprised it hasn't appeared already).
Bexhill - birthplace of British Motor racing.
Long Man of Wilmington.
Crawley
Burgess Hill

 

[skipper734]

I know the name is to do with Saxons, and that they were mainly located in the south of England, (while the top half of the country was being raped & pillaged by axe-swinging Norsemen) but presumably there were some to the north of this particular area just like there were south, east, west and, um, middle Saxons.

I await the wisdom of NSC.

You have answered your own question. The Saxons who went north, all got raped and pillaged.
To the North was Mercia with the Thames as a bit of a natural boundary.
Only down south in the Great Kingdom of Wessex, which included most of the South of England, except Cornwall, The West Saxons, South Saxons ( Sussex) etc. were protected by Alfred the Great the only Kingdom that was never subdued by the Norsemen.

 

[NMH]

Soft Suvvners

 

[alofbrighton]

1.Qaudrophenia
2.Castles (Pevensey, Arundel, Bodiam, Bramber etc)
3.The Snowman video...watch closely and you'll see the Downs and the pier (Raymond Briggs lives in Underhill lane near Ditchling)
4.Brighton of course....easily compares with some of the best cities in the world I've visited (San Fran, Sydney, Melbourne, New York)

Incidentally and going down the Saxon line...the name Brighton derives from the Saxon 'Beorhthelm's farm' (anything ending in 'ton' is Saxon for farm i.e Clayton - Farm on the clay). Most names around here have Saxon origins...

 

[public school boy]

Strange men/boys answering to the name of NANCY

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived and died in Crowborough

 

[Martinf]

The image that defines East Sussex is the Seven Sisters. Not sure about West - rarely cross the border into enemy territory these days.

http://z.about.com/d/gouk/1/0/H/I/-/-/SEvensisters.jpg

 

[Martinf]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived and died in Crowborough

And Rudyard Kipling lived in Burwash. You know. The geezer that made the cakes.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

I thought it was Woodingdean, cos thats where his school is

 

[brakespear]

Merrydown - at least it was when I was a teen in Cornwall, where it was the tipple of choice for getting drunk on the beach.

 

[public school boy]

I thought it was Woodingdean, cos thats where his school is

Kipling had a house in rottingdean but spent most of his time living in Burwash in a house called Batemans where he started an Opticians

 

[Martinf]

Kipling had a house in rottingdean but spent most of his time living in Burwash in a house called Batemans where he started an Opticians

But when did he start fiddling with tarts?

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

But when did he start fiddling with tarts?

At the school in Woodingdean

 

[skipper734]

IF.