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  1. County in SE England. area 1,800 sq km/695 sq
  2. mi towns Lewes (administrative headquarters),
  3. Newhaven (cross-channel port), Brighton,
  4. Eastbourne, Hastings, Bexhill, Winchelsea,
  5. Rye features Beachy Head, highest headland on
  6. the S coast at 180 m/590 ft, the E end of the
  7. South Downs; the Weald (including Ashdown
  8. Forest); Friston Forest; rivers: Ouse,
  9. Cuckmere, East Rother; Romney Marsh; the
  10. `Long Man' chalk hill figure at Wilmington,
  11. near Eastbourne; Herstmonceux, with a
  12. 15th-century castle (conference and
  13. exhibition centre) and adjacent modern
  14. buildings, site of the Greenwich Royal
  15. Observatory 1958-90; other castles at
  16. Hastings, Lewes, Pevensey, and Bodiam; Battle
  17. Abbey and the site of the Battle of Hastings;
  18. Michelham Priory; Sheffield Park garden;
  19. University of Sussex at Falmer, near
  20. Brighton, founded in 1961 products
  21. electronics, gypsum, timber population (1987)
  22. 698,000
  23.