A new national park in the South Downs has been officially confirmed more than 60 years after the area was first earmarked for protected status. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn signed the order to ...

Two of Britain’s “most iconic birds” feature among the top images in the South Downs National Park’s annual photo competition. Photographer Piers Fearick, from Worthing, West Sussex ...

The South Downs became the ... of the designation of the South Downs National Park. The area, which covers more than 600 sq miles of countryside in East and West Sussex and Hampshire, became ...

More than 300 acres of historic farmland in the South Downs National Park are to be restored to nature in one of the UK’s largest ever Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) projects.

Now the South Downs are to be made into a National Park. It will cover 627 square miles stretching from Twyford Down just outside Winchester in Hampshire to the edge of Eastbourne in East Sussex.

Wildflower habitats the size of 163 football pitches have been created in the South Downs National Park to help ... Northchapel, West Sussex, said: “Our wildflower plantings are situated in ...

A headquarters in West Sussex has been chosen for the new South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) following a consultation. The authority is looking at buying Capron House in Midhurst ...

A number of beautiful homes, a park and even ... shortlisted for a South Downs Design Award. More than 60 nominations were received across Sussex and Hampshire for the National Park’s award ...

Two Ukrainian refugees will cycle 30km across the South Downs for charity after signing ... Routes for the cycle cut through the national park and take can take between three and eight hours ...

Britain's 15th national park - South Downs National Park in Hampshire ... The park stretches for 70 miles from eastern Hampshire through West and East Sussex. Historic towns include Arundel ...

But I prefer the views of rolling weald farmland from Harting Down in West Sussex ... don’t know that the South Downs has more woodland than any other National Park in England.