Sussex emerges here as a county of striking individuality, shaped by sea, marsh, chalk, and forest into a landscape at once beautiful, practical, and deeply historical. Richly illustrated and closely observed, the book invites readers across harbours, river mouths, beaches, towns, churches, castles, and coastal scenes, while tracing how geography has governed settlement, travel, invasion, and local identity. Sussex is presented as a region "created from the sea," bounded and divided by the Weald, the Downs, and ancient marshlands that once made east-west movement difficult and left a lasting imprint on roads, parishes, and boundaries. At the heart of the county stand the South Downs: a long, uniform wall of chalk hills, lonely and treeless above the plains, yet vital in Britain's early history. Their rivers, combes, wooded hangers, and beech-clad slopes reveal a living countryside where geology and human use are inseparable. From fertile coastal plain to chalk ridge, clay Weald, and forest edge, Sussex is shown as a unified natural system whose enduring character still shapes its villages, farms, and ancient trackways. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.