• Gatwick Airport
• Shoreham Airport - the world's oldest continually-operational airport.
• Hickstead Showjumping

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History

Main article: History of Sussex

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Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of West Sussex at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added[1]	Agriculture[2]	Industry[3]	Services[4]
1995	8,564	208	2,239	6,116
2000	10,576	162	2,545	7,869
2003	12,619	185	2,520	9,915

1. ^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
2. ^ includes hunting and forestry
3. ^ includes energy and construction
4. ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

The following are some of the companies based in West Sussex, Crawley:

• Virgin Atlantic Airways
• Unilever
• BOC Edwards
• TUI Travel PLC
• Thales UK.

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Education

West Sussex has a comprehensive education system, with 37 state schools and 20 independent schools.

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Politics

West Sussex County Council has 70 councillors; the majority of them being Conservative. There are 47 Conservative councillors, 16 Liberal Democrats, and 7 Labour Party councillors. [3]

As of the 2005 general election, West Sussex is largely represented by Conservative MPs, with the exception of the Labour Party constituency of Crawley, where Labour held the seat by just 37 votes. The Members of Parliament, their corresponding constituencies and the percentage of the vote they received are as follows:

• Arundel & South Downs - Nick Herbert, Conservative, 49.8%
• Bognor Regis - Nick Gibb, Conservative, 44.6%
• Chichester - Andrew Tyrie, Conservative, 48.3%
• Crawley - Laura Moffatt, Labour, 39.1%
• Horsham - Francis Maude, Conservative, 50.0%
• Mid Sussex - Nicholas Soames, Conservative, 48.0%
• Worthing East - Tim Loughton, Conservative, 43.9%
• Worthing West - Peter Bottomley, Conservative, 47.6%

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See also

• East Sussex
• Sussex
• The Royal Sussex Regiment
• Eastbourne Redoubt Home of the Royal Sussex Regimental Museum

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Image Gallery

Gatwick's South Terminal	Arun Valley at Amberley, West Sussex	Clayton Tunnel on the London to Brighton line.	Typical West Sussex woodland at Hassocks
View of West Sussex from the S Downs above Poynings

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References

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External links

• The River Wey and Wey Navigations Community Site — a non-commercial site of over 200,000 words all about the River Wey including information and images about the source of the Wey at Black Down in West Sussex.
• Eastbourne Redoubt Fortress Military Museum Eastbourne Redoubt is the home of the Royal Sussex Regimental Museum
• The Royal Sussex Regimental Association
• Rustington information website with useful telephone numbers and links
• Angmering Area Project has all of Angmering census returns available to view as well as censuses for many surrounding parishes. This collection is constantly added to.

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