The Battle of Hastings didn't actually take place in Hastings, but a few miles north — and you can still visit the site of perhaps the most consequential battle ever to take place on English soil. On ...

Sussex is not just the land, it is also the sea, and there is an eternal struggle between the two. Neither quite wins, neither quite loses. As the sun went down on Battle, the seagulls were still ...

But the early 18th-century writer did get one thing wrong when, in 1722, he described Battle in East Sussex as ‘remarkable for little now’. Clearly, he thought the tide had gone out on this ...

As I am sure you are all aware, this year marks the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings ... t fancy going abroad and figured that as East Sussex is so easy to get to from London, we ...

We identify previously unknown 18th and 19 th century sources that locate the battle near Old Heathfield in East Sussex, 10 miles north-west of Battle Abbey, on land once known as Heathfield Down ...

near Hastings in East Sussex. The alternative sites are on nearby Caldbec Hill, and two miles away near the village of Crowhurst. At the 1066 battle, William Duke of Normandy vanquished Harold’s ...

An East Sussex art group has secured National Lottery funding to create a trail of 20 works of art around Battle. Battle Arts has been given the go ahead for the project - The World Turned Upside ...

The basis of the trail will be work by commissioned professional artists An East Sussex art group has secured National Lottery funding to create a trail of 20 works of art around Battle.