Arundel Park comprises 1000 acres of downland, as well as a beautiful cricket ground which hosts many international events, particularly the tourist Cricket event in July.

A beautiful 60-acre nature reserve for hundreds of spectacular wildfowl and animals about a mile from Arundel. For more information please visit:

For more information visit http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit/arundel/

A working museum set in the beautiful South Downs. Here you can visit craftsmen and experience the sights, smells and sounds of their workshops, take a ride on a narrow-gauge railway and sample the delights of the early motor bus. Many other exhibits include the village telephone exchange, the wheelwright's workshop, 'Connected Earth' Telecommunications Hall and EDF Electricity Hall, with a roads and road making exhibition. The museum stages various special events.

For more information visit http://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/

Houses some of the finest mosaics in Engand, including a 24 foot corridor, as well as remains of under floor heating systems and cold-plunge baths.

For more information visit http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/roman%20britain/bignor%20villa.htm

Horse racing year-round on a picturesque racecourse on the A27 between Arundel and Chichester.

For more information visit http://www.fontwellpark.co.uk/racing/calendar.asp

Just north of Chichester, the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum is England's leading museum of historic buildings and rural life. Set in a 50-acre park in the South Downs, more than 500 years of architectural heritage is represented. Historic homes, farmsteads and rural workshops have been rescued from destruction, carefully restored and rebuilt in their original form including the Bayleaf medieval farmstead, a 17thC working watermill, and Tudor kitchen.

For more information visit http://www.wealddown.co.uk/

A place of beauty and tranquility in the rolling South Downs, featuring a restored walled kitchen garden with stunning Victorian glasshouses. A circular walk through a 49-acre arboretum offers breathtaking views of the surrounding countryside and the estate's fine flint house in its parkland setting. Rustic summerhouses, a 300ft Edwardian pergola, ornamental borders and a pond contrast with over 200 varieties of carefully trained fruit trees, rows of vegetables and exotic produce behind glass.

For more information visit http://www.westdean.org.uk/