The starting point for this collection of six walks in and around the village of Ditchling is the wonderful and varied collection of the Ditchling Museum of Art+Craft.
The designers, plant hunters and botanical brains behind the county's best gardens. Featuring both historic and contemporary garden pioneers, as well as interviews with living pioneers.
When you catch a train from London to Brighton, you have the Victorian engineers and navvies to thank. This guide also introduces the town halls, libraries, schools, churches etc that were also a product of the age.
The domestic milieu of the Bloomsbury Group is revealed in the decorations and gardens of the Woolf's home in Rodmell, and Vanessa Bell's at Charleston.
Fascinating insight into the creative figures associated with Sussex: Blake hated it, Kipling fell in love with it, Shelley ran away from it as soon as he could and Stella Gibbons poked fun at it!
