Ditchling
Ditchling is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.
The village is contained within the boundaries of the South Downs National Park; the order confirming the establishment of the park was signed in Ditchling. There are two public houses, The Bull and The White Horse; two cafes, The Nutmeg Tree and The Green Welly; a post office, florist, delicatessen and other shops. Ditchling has community groups and societies, including the Ditchling Film Society and the Ditchling Singers.
Getting to Ditchling
The settlement stands around a crossroads with Brighton and Hove to the south, Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath to the north, Keymer and Hassocks to the west, and Lewes to the east.
Worth seeing
- 01Ditchling Common Nature Reserves
Ditchling Common is of biological interest because of the variety of heath grassland habitats, created by the different drainage conditions throughout the common.
- 02Clayton to Offham Escarpment
This Site of Special Scientific Interest stretches from Hassocks in the west, passing through many parishes including Ditchling, to Lewes in the East.
- 03Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Lodge Hill Lane,BN6 8TS (3 miles SSE of Burgess Hill),.
Things to do
- 01Ditchling Beacon
BN6 8XG.
Getting around Ditchling the local way
- Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.
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