Places to explore in East SussexEngland · South East England

Moated fairy-tale castle reflected in its water.

A red-and-white tower stands in the surf below England's highest chalk sea cliff, built seaward after the old clifftop Belle Tout light kept vanishing in mist.

The white chalk waves of the Seven Sisters, falling to the Channel.

A chalk ridge rolling from Winchester to the sea cliffs at Beachy Head.

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Hilltop citadel above the Rother marshes, its cobbled Mermaid Street climbing past timbered houses, antique shops and a Norman church.

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Ruined abbey on the 1066 battlefield.

Standard-gauge steam railway from Sheffield Park to East Grinstead, with a large collection of preserved locomotives.

Small countryside zoo near Alfriston with a narrow-gauge train, a long-running family day out.

Smuggling and Romney Marsh history displayed inside the medieval Ypres Tower above Rye.

A cone-shaped folly Mad Jack Fuller reputedly built overnight to win a wager about seeing Dallington church spire.

South-facing sandstone crag beside the Bowles Outdoor Centre, popular with climbers.

A slender stone obelisk on one of East Sussex's highest ridges, part of Fuller's cluster of local follies.