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  • proper noun A county in south east England bordered by East Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey and the English Channel.

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  • noun a county in southern England on the English Channel

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  • Gatwick Airport is located in Crawley, West Sussex, which is around 28 miles south of London and 25 miles north of Brighton.

    doggdot.us 2009

  • The event was founded in 1998 by Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara, who manages the Goodwood Estate, his family's seat, at Chichester in West Sussex, England.

    Baby, You Can Drive My Car Margaret Studer 2011

  • The species was recorded flowering in Europe first in Italy in 1971 and then in 1987 at Kew Gardens' country outpost, Wakehurst Place in West Sussex.

    Weatherwatch: Emmenopterys henryi blossoms 2011

  • I took a group of army cadets out into the middle of West Sussex from central London on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition and it was the first time they had really seen a cow and had to cross a field with a cow in it.

    How do we make our schools fit to face the 21st century? 2011

  • At least three of the schools – Discovery new school in West Sussex, St Luke's in north London, and Canary Wharf college – will have a Christian ethos.

    Whitehall emails reveal the hidden costs of promoting free schools 2011

  • Ford open prison, the scene of a New Year's Day riot, was awash with drugs and alcohol when prison inspectors went into the West Sussex jail a month before the disturbances, it has been revealed.

    Drink and drugs rife at new year riot prison, report finds 2011

  • Temporary seed beds will be open to the public until September at Wakehurst Place, Kew's West Sussex location.

    Kew unveils native flower seed bank 2011

  • Joy HurcombeWorthing, West Sussex• If any of the inmates of Guantánamo and their friends, families and fellow citizens were not "radicalised" prior to their kidnap, incarceration and ill-treatment, they would have to be saints not to view the US with extreme hostility by now.

    Letters: Guantanamo – a travesty of justice 2011

  • The first meadows will be restored by a collaboration between Kew and the High Weald Landscape Trust's Weald meadows initiative in West Sussex.

    Kew unveils native flower seed bank 2011

  • Maurice CliftCrawley, West Sussex• People in rural areas are again bleating about the cost of fuel – it is all nonsense.

    Letters: Drip-feed budget at the pumps 2011

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