Hermione Eyre

Stories of the Sussex Downs

Focusing on a 20-mile square of West Sussex, Alexandra Harris explores its rich history, from the wreck of a Viking longboat to a refuge for French Resistance agents

‘The Lake, Petworth: Sunset, a Stag Drinking’, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1829. [Bridgeman Images]

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