Chanctonbury, Sussex

Historical Description

Chanctonbury, an ancient camp in Wiston parish, Sussex, on one of the Downs, 814 feet high, 3½ miles W by N of Steyning. It has a dark clump of trees, and figures in the landscape views of half the county. It is circular, and may have been originally British, but it lies near a Roman road running east and west, and has yielded Roman coins. The prospect from it is extensive, panoramic, and grand.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer