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___MASK1___ is a large ___MASK22___ town in England , with borough status in West Sussex , in the historic county of Sussex . It is situated at the foot of the South Downs , west of Brighton , and east of the county town of ___MASK34___ . With an estimated population of 104 , 600 and an area of the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton / ___MASK1___ / Littlehampton conurbation , which makes it part of the 15th most populous urban area in the United Kingdom . Midhurst ( pronounced , or in the ___MASK69___ dialect : " Medhas " ) is a market town and civil parish in West ___MASK69___ , England . It lies on the River Rother 20 miles inland from the English Channel , and 12 miles north of the county town of ___MASK34___ . Great Britain , also known as Britain , is a large island in the ___MASK8___ ___MASK15___ off the ___MASK35___ coast of continental Europe . With an area of , Great Britain is the largest European island and the ninth - largest in the world . In 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people , making it the world ' s third - most populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan . The island of Ireland is situated to the west of it , and together these islands , along with over 1 , 000 smaller surrounding islands , comprise the British Isles archipelago . ___MASK57___ ___MASK69___ is a county in the south of England , bordering East ___MASK69___ ( with Brighton and Hove ) to the east , Hampshire to the west and ___MASK83___ to the north , and to the south the English Channel . ___MASK34___ in the southwest is the county town and only city in ___MASK57___ ___MASK69___ , with the largest towns being Crawley , Worthing and Horsham . ___MASK57___ ___MASK69___ has a range of scenery , including wealden , downland and coastal . The highest point of the county is Blackdown , at 280 metres ( 919 ft ). It has a number of stately homes including Goodwood , Petworth House and Uppark and also castles such as Arundel Castle and Bramber Castle . Over half the county is protected countryside , offering walking , cycling and other recreational opportunities . ___MASK26___ is a ___MASK22___ resort in East Sussex , England . Petworth House in the parish ___MASK41___ Petworth , ___MASK57___ ___MASK69___ , England , is a late 17th - century Grade I listed country house , rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour , 6th Duke ___MASK41___ Somerset , and altered in the 1870s to the design ___MASK41___ the architect Anthony Salvin . It contains intricate wood - carvings by Grinling Gibbons ( d . 1721 ). It is the manor house ___MASK41___ the manor ___MASK41___ Petworth . For centuries it was the southern home for the Percy family , Earls ___MASK41___ Northumberland . Petworth is famous for its extensive art collection made by George Wyndham , 3rd Earl ___MASK41___ Egremont ( 1751 - 1837 ), containing many works by his friend Turner . It also has an expansive deer park , landscaped by Capability Brown , which contains the largest herd ___MASK41___ fallow deer in England . A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography . A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state , as a non - sovereign or formerly sovereign political division , or a geographic region associated with sets ___MASK41___ previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless ___MASK41___ the physical geography , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League ___MASK41___ Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 , a resident ___MASK41___ a country is subject to the independent exercise ___MASK41___ legal jurisdiction . Cowdray House consists ___MASK41___ the ruins ___MASK41___ one ___MASK41___ ___MASK93___ ' s great Tudor houses , architecturally comparable to many ___MASK41___ the great palaces and country houses ___MASK41___ that ___MASK52___ . It is situated in the Parish ___MASK41___ Easebourne , just east ___MASK41___ Midhurst , West Sussex standing on the north bank ___MASK41___ the River Rother . It was largely destroyed by fire on 24 September 1793 , but the ruins have nevertheless been Grade I listed . Bramber Castle is a ___MASK40___ motte - and - bailey castle formerly the " caput " ___MASK41___ the large feudal barony ___MASK41___ Bramber long held by the Braose family . It is situated in the village ___MASK41___ Bramber , ___MASK57___ ___MASK69___ overlooking the River Adur . The English Channel (" the Sleeve " [ hence ] " Sea ___MASK41___ Brittany " " British Sea "), also called simply the Channel , is the body ___MASK41___ water that separates southern ___MASK93___ from northern France , and joins the southern part ___MASK41___ the North Sea to the rest ___MASK41___ the Atlantic Ocean . ___MASK61___ is a town and borough in West Sussex , England . It is south of Charing Cross ( London ), north of Brighton and Hove , and north - east of the county town of ___MASK34___ . ___MASK61___ covers an area of and had a population of 106 , 597 at the time of the 2011 Census . Continental ___MASK58___ , also referred to as ___MASK31___ ___MASK58___ , or , by Europeans , simply the Continent , is the continuous continent of ___MASK58___ , excluding surrounding islands . The Weald is an area in ___MASK44___ ___MASK19___ ___MASK93___ situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the ___MASK44___ Downs . It crosses the counties of ___MASK69___ , Hampshire , ___MASK77___ and ___MASK83___ . It has three separate parts : the sandstone " High Weald " in the centre ; the clay " Low Weald " periphery ; and the Greensand Ridge , which stretches around the north and west of the Weald and includes its highest points . The Weald once was covered with forest , and its name , Old English in origin , signifies " woodland ." The term is still used today , as scattered farms and villages sometimes refer to the Weald in their names . The United ___MASK100___ and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European ___MASK31___ , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the ___MASK29___ . ___MASK91___ ( Scots : ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain . It shares a border with England to the south , and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to the east and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the south - west . In addition to the mainland , the country is made up of more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . ___MASK95___ (; abbreviated Hants , archaically known as the County of Southampton ) is a county on the southern coast of ___MASK93___ in the United Kingdom . The county town of ___MASK95___ is Winchester , the former capital city of ___MASK93___ . ___MASK95___ is the most populous ceremonial county in the United Kingdom ( excluding the metropolitan counties ) with almost half of the county ' s population living within the South ___MASK95___ conurbation which includes the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth . The larger South ___MASK95___ metropolitan area has a population of 1 , 547 , 000 . ___MASK95___ is notable for housing the birthplaces of the Royal Navy , British Army , and Royal Air Force . It is bordered by ___MASK66___ to the west , Wiltshire to the north - west , Berkshire to the north , ___MASK83___ to the north - east , and West Sussex to the east . The southern boundary is the coastline of the English Channel and the Solent , facing the Isle of Wight . Borders are geographic boundaries ___MASK41___ political entities or legal jurisdictions , such as governments , sovereign states , federated states , and other subnational entities . Some borders  such as a state ' s internal administrative border , or inter - state borders within the ___MASK43___ Area  are often open and completely unguarded . Other borders are partially or fully controlled , and may be crossed legally only at designated border checkpoints and border zones may be controlled . Mostly contentious , borders may even foster the setting up ___MASK41___ buffer zones . A difference has also been established in academic scholarship between border and frontier , the latter denoting a state ___MASK41___ mind rather than state boundaries . The Celtic Sea (; ) is the area ___MASK41___ the ___MASK15___ off the south coast ___MASK41___ Ireland bounded to the ___MASK19___ by Saint George ' s Channel ; other limits include the ___MASK25___ Channel , the English Channel , and the Bay ___MASK41___ Biscay , as well as adjacent portions ___MASK41___ Wales , Cornwall , ___MASK70___ , and Brittany . The southern and western boundaries are delimited by the continental shelf , which drops away sharply . The Isles ___MASK41___ Scilly are an archipelago ___MASK41___ small islands in the sea . ___MASK69___ ( abbreviated Sx ), from the Old English " Sþsaxe " ( South Saxons ), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of ___MASK69___ . It is bounded to the west by Hampshire , north by ___MASK83___ , north - east by Kent , south by the English Channel , and divided for local government into West ___MASK69___ and East ___MASK69___ and the city of Brighton and Hove . Brighton and Hove was created as a unitary authority in 1997 , and granted City status in 2000 . Until then , ___MASK34___ was ___MASK69___ ' s only city . ___MASK93___ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with ___MASK91___ to the north and Wales to the west . The Irish Sea lies ___MASK35___ of ___MASK93___ and the Celtic Sea lies to the ___MASK5___ . ___MASK93___ is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths of the island of Great Britain ( which lies in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly , and the Isle of Wight . Petworth is a small town and civil parish in the ___MASK34___ District of West Sussex , England . It is located at the junction of the A272 east - west road from Heathfield to Winchester and the A283 Milford to Shoreham - by - Sea road . Some twelve miles ( 21 km ) to the south west of Petworth along the A285 road lies ___MASK34___ and the south - coast . The parish includes the settlements of Byworth and Hampers Green and covers an area of . In 2001 the population of the parish was 2 , 775 persons living in 1 , 200 households of whom 1 , 326 were economically active . At the 2011 Census the population was 3 , 027 . ___MASK3___ Castle is a restored and remodeled medieval castle in ___MASK3___ , West ___MASK69___ , England . It was established by Roger de Montgomery on Christmas Day 1068 . Roger became the first to hold the earldom of ___MASK3___ by the graces of William the Conqueror . The castle was damaged in the English Civil War and then restored in the 18th and 19th centuries . ___MASK26___ and Hove is a city in ___MASK19___ ___MASK69___ , in South ___MASK19___ England . At the 2011 census , it was England ' s most populous ___MASK22___ resort with a population of 273 , 400 . ___MASK18___ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain . It is bordered by England to the east , the Irish Sea to the north and west , and the ___MASK25___ Channel to the south . It had a population in 2011 of 3 , 063 , 456 and has a total area of . ___MASK18___ has over of coastline and is largely mountainous , with its higher peaks in the north and central areas , including Snowdon , its highest summit . The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable , maritime climate . ___MASK3___ ( or ) is a market town and civil parish in a steep vale of the South Downs , West ___MASK69___ , England . It lies SSW of London , WNW of the English Channel city of Brighton , and east of the county city of ___MASK34___ . Larger nearby towns include Worthing , Littlehampton and Bognor Regis . The much - conserved town with large green buffers has a medieval castle and Roman Catholic cathedral . Although smaller in population than most other parishes , ___MASK3___ has a museum and comes second behind much larger ___MASK34___ in its number of listed buildings in West ___MASK69___ . The River Arun runs through the eastern side of the town . ___MASK16___ is a market town on the upper reaches ___MASK41___ the River ___MASK20___ in the centre ___MASK41___ the Weald in ___MASK69___ , England . The town is south south - west ___MASK41___ London , north - west ___MASK41___ Brighton and north - east ___MASK41___ the county town ___MASK41___ ___MASK34___ . Nearby towns include Crawley to the north - east and Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill to the south - east . It is the administrative centre ___MASK41___ the ___MASK16___ district . The ___MASK2___ is a county and the largest and second - ___MASK78___ populous island in ___MASK93___ . It is located in the English Channel , about 4 miles ( 6 km ) off the coast of Hampshire , separated by the Solent . The island has resorts that have been holiday destinations since Victorian times , and is known for its mild climate , coastal scenery , and verdant landscape of fields , downland and chines . ___MASK83___ is a county in the south east of England and also one of the home counties bordering Greater London . ___MASK83___ shares borders with Kent to the east , East Sussex to the south - east , West Sussex to the south , Hampshire to the west and south - west and Berkshire to the north - west . The county town is Guildford . ___MASK83___ County Council sits extraterritorially at Kingston upon Thames , administered as part of Greater London since 1965 . With a resident population of 1 . 1 million , ___MASK83___ is the most densely populated and third most populated county in the South East region , after Kent and Hampshire . A County town is usually the location ___MASK41___ administrative or judicial functions within the county , or it has been established over ___MASK52___ as the " de facto " main town ___MASK41___ a county . The concept ___MASK41___ a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning ___MASK41___ where the county administration or county hall is based . In fact , many county towns are no longer part ___MASK41___ the administrative county . For example , ___MASK21___ is administered by a unitary authority entirely separate from the rest ___MASK41___ Nottinghamshire . Many county towns are classified as cities , but all are referred to as county towns regardless ___MASK41___ whether city status is held or not . Uppark is a 17th - century house in ___MASK44___ Harting , Petersfield , ___MASK57___ ___MASK69___ , England and a National Trust property . ___MASK34___ is a cathedral city in West Sussex , in South - East England . It is the only city in West Sussex and is its county town . It has a long history as a settlement from Roman times and was important in Anglo - Saxon times . It is the seat of a bishopric , with a 12th - century cathedral , and is home to some of the oldest churches and buildings in Great Britain . The Isles ___MASK41___ Scilly ( or "") are an archipelago off the south western tip ___MASK41___ the Cornish peninsula ___MASK41___ Great Britain . It is the southernmost location in ___MASK93___ and the United Kingdom , as well as the most westerly in ___MASK93___ . ___MASK20___ is a local government district in West ___MASK69___ , England . It contains the towns of Arundel , Bognor Regis and Littlehampton , and takes its name from the River ___MASK20___ , which runs through the centre of the district . The Irish Sea (, , , ___MASK82___ - Scots : " Airish Sea "), separates the islands ___MASK41___ Ireland and Great Britain . It is connected to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George ' s Channel , and to the Inner Seas off the ___MASK57___ Coast ___MASK41___ ___MASK91___ in the north by the North Channel . Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish Sea , followed by the Isle ___MASK41___ Man . The sea is occasionally , but rarely , referred to as the Manx Sea . The ___MASK8___ Sea is a marginal sea ___MASK41___ the ___MASK15___ located between Great Britain , Scandinavia , ___MASK27___ , the Netherlands , Belgium , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") sea on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area ___MASK41___ around . ___MASK19___ ___MASK69___ is a county in South ___MASK19___ England . It is bordered by the counties of ___MASK77___ to the north and east , ___MASK83___ to the north west and West ___MASK69___ to the west , and to the south by the English Channel .