Cissbury, Sussex

Historical Description

Cissbury, an ancient camp in Sussex, on the Downs, 4 miles NNW of Worthing. It crowns an oval-shaped hill; follows the hill's outline, occupies about 60 acres, and has a single deep trench, with high broad rampart. It probably took its name from the Saxon Cissa, but it has furnished evidence of having been occupied by the Romans.

Maps

Online maps of Cissbury are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

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