The 1920s bohemians who put the sex into Sussex

• Flint and brick, hill and meadow, river and coast. The South Downs make for a magical landscape. Heading south from London they are the last rolling swell of high grassland before you get to the chalk cliffs, marshes, beaches and winding estuaries of the coast. It’s a gentle, sometimes mysterious world of dead-end lanes, wildflower meadows, sudden unexpected views, quiet villages and isolated farmhouses. The perfect place for a rural getaway.