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Secret Sussex Episodes

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    The hapless Sidlesham Snail

    The railway that went from Chichester to Selsey and back in one day 鈥� if you were lucky.

  2. The ghostly abandoned school in the woods

    The harder you look, the less likely you are to find it.

  3. The curious case of the Alfriston Beaver

    Revealing the long-lost meaning of a church carving that鈥檚 puzzled people for centuries.

  4. The amazing story of the world鈥檚 deepest well

    Once they started digging in Woodingdean, they didn't stop until they found water.

  5. The aircraft graveyard at Staplecross

    Derelict and abandoned, the team saving rusty old aircraft from the scrapheap.

  6. The abandoned village of Tide Mills

    The haunting, eerie and mesmerising ruins on the Sussex coast.

  7. Surprising Selsey

    The unlikely misfits who put the town on the map.

  8. Strange goings-on at Chanctonbury Ring

    Chilling tales and paranormal activity at the most haunted site in the South Downs.

  9. Step inside the Ferring Pillbox

    It's dark and cramped, but it's out of the wind.

  10. Spirits in the aisles in Crawley

    Spooky goings on at a supermarket built on a graveyard.

  11. Smugglers, witches, priests and ghosts

    A secret tunnel, witches marks and ghostly goings on at The Six Bells in Billingshurst.

  12. Selsey鈥檚 lost Abbey beneath the sea

    The tides may have taken it, but some say you can still hear the bells toll.

  13. Selsey's Mulberry legacy

    The underwater D-Day trail off the Sussex coast.

  14. Seaford鈥檚 soldiers who weren鈥檛 allowed to fight

    Trained in Sussex, loved by locals but barred from the battlefields of Europe.

  15. Saltdean鈥檚 fiery past

    The seaside icon and its forgotten chapter in Britain鈥檚 firefighting history.

  16. Portslade Cookery School

    The school in Portslade where 14,000 men learnt how to cook before going to war in 1916.

  17. One extraordinary night in Brighton

    They climbed the lamp posts and had bonfires on the beach.

  18. Lost in the snow

    Something very peculiar happened when two boys got lost in the snow on Ditchling Beacon.

  19. It's pretty - but what's it for?

    Revealing the past of a small round brick building next to a burger van on the A27.

  20. It happened on a rainy night

    The tragic tale of a young couple married for just four hours.

  21. Inside Worthing's hidden basement

    Ancient maps, priceless books and a ghostly guardian.

  22. Goring's Sistine Chapel

    The stunning reproduction of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in a little-known Goring church.

  23. Gatwick's forgotten racecourse

    From Grand National to International, the racecourse that became a runway.

  24. Gasbags Ahoy!

    The 142 acres of land that was transformed into Polegate Airship Station.

  25. Found on a doorstep in Petworth

    The mysterious bundle of papers discovered just in time for Christmas.

  26. Finding England鈥檚 smallest church

    The tiny hidden church in the South Downs that you can only reach by foot.

  27. Cuckfield's Official Secret

    The Cold War underground monitoring station ready to report a nuclear attack.

  28. Britain鈥檚 deadliest avalanche

    The tragic tale of lives swept away by a crushing snow fall in Lewes.

  29. Brighton鈥檚 lost live music venues

    Punk music fanatic Chris Marshall takes a tour of Brighton鈥檚 lost live music venues.

  30. Brighton鈥檚 Forgotten Leading Man

    Sir Lenny Henry explores Ira Aldridge鈥檚 Brighton debut and its impact on theatre history.

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