We are local to two of the major horse show arenas. The South of England Showground at Ardingly and Hickstead, the All England Show Jumping ground.

If you like polo we have Cowdray Park at Midhurst. Knepp Castle at West Grinstead, Ham up near Richmond, The Royal Berkshire, Ascot and The Guards Polo Club, Windsor.

Golf, we have a vast selection of places, starting with The Burgess Hill Golf Centre 01444 258 585. Mannings Heath Golf Club - Mannings Heath off the A281. The Singing Hills Golf Club near Woodmancote on the B2117 Brighton Road . The Mid-Sussex Golf Club is in Spatham Lane, Ditchling. Piltdown Golf Club is in Piltdown, near Uckfield off the A272. Pyecombe Golf Club on Clayton Hill at Pyecombe off the A273 and continue up the road to Hassocks Golf Club on the London Road continuing on the A273.

There are many wonderful gardens, all very local to us; Wakehurst Place with the Millennium seed bank, Borde Hill, Leonardslee, Nymans, Sheffield Park, to name but a few.

Racing, both Flat and National Hunt, we have Brighton, Fontwell Park, Plumpton, Kempton, Sandown Park, Lingfield, Ascot and Goodwood only a few lengths or hurdles away!

If Music and Theatre are your love, we are extremely lucky as we have the Theatre Royal in Brighton, 0870 060 6650; the Hawth Theatre in Crawley, 01293 553 636; the Festival Theatre in Chichester; the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, 01483 440 000, the Capitol Theatre in Horsham 01403 750 220; the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, 01903 206 206; and the New Venture Theatre in Brighton, 01273 746 118.
Music fans have the world renowned Glyndebourne Opera House near Lewes, Box Office 01273 813 813. The Brighton Dome Concert Hall, 01273 709 709; plus various other venues in the summer that hold musical evenings under the stars and also under canvas, glass or a proper roof!

Cinemas:
Crawley Cineworld 0871 200 2000
Horsham The Capitol 01403 750 220
Brighton Cineworld 0871 200 2000
Brighton Duke of Yorks 01273 602 503

Sussex is full of castles and fortifications, Battle Abbey, 1066 and all that, Leeds, Herstmonceux, Arundel and Hever all have Castles.

If you are still yearning for your childhood then we can offer the Bluebell Railway at Sheffield Park where steam power is still puffing away and you may find Thomas the Tank Engine and friends. In Ashdown Forest there was a chap called Christopher Robin who played a rather pointless game called pooh- sticks off the bridge into the stream.