West Dean House

A breath of fresh air; rural Sussex has space and beautiful rolling downs with vistas to die for.  The pace of life says that we want even more as expectations are ever greater, but at the same time we want or rather need to relax.  The West Dean College’s estate ticks all the boxes as our visit was to their annual Summer Arts and Craft Festival, whilst literally next door is the Weald and Downland Museum which coincidentally was staging its Living History Festival.   The latter has many events through most of the year to add to the attraction of many rebuilt historic buildings rescued from