Sussex
About Sussex
Sussex is an area of South East England that was historically a kingdom and, later, a county. The current ceremonial counties of East Sussex and West Sussex cover approximately the same area. The two ceremonial counties border Surrey to the north, Kent to the north-east, the English Channel to the south, and Hampshire to the west. Sussex contains the city of Brighton and Hove and its wider city region, part of the South Downs National Park and the national landscape of the High Weald, and Chichester Harbour. Its coastline is 137 miles (220 km) long.
On the show — 24 mentions total
The Mermaid in Rye, which is in Sussex, they say was the most haunted pub — it's got a billion ghosts in it.
from 471: No Such Thing As A Toin Coss, 2023-03-24 at 00:39:24 · read transcript
Other times Sussex came up
Exactly. Does he just take it home? I don't know. There's this surname Christmas, quite common in Essex and Sussex. The theory is that it was probably, you know, people got their surnames in the olden days, it was probably someone who was born on Christmas Day. That's what we think. However, there is a guy called Henry Christmas, who is a retired engineer who has spent decades delving into the history of the name, and he said in 2005 that the Christmas Day, Christmas connection is too easy.
No Such Thing As Batman And Thrush, 2021-12-24 · listen
What was he expecting the person to say? Who's this box for, then? Exactly. His surname is Christmas. Quite common in Essex and Sussex. The theory is that it was probably, you know, people got their surnames in the olden days. It was probably someone who was born on Christmas Day. That's what we think. However, there is a guy called Henry Christmas who is a retired engineer who has spent decades delving into the history of the name.
406: No Such Thing As Batman And Thrush, 2021-12-24 · listen
Wow. That's quite a lot, though. God, there's a lot. That was a study done in 1958 in a Sussex meadow. In the 1950s, if you look at photos, they were actually overwhelmed with spiders, just all those films. That's why everyone's got their mouths shut in early photographs, is to stop the spiders getting in. Is this a case of, you know, when they say, if you leave rats and they breed and they breed and the breed or any, is this a case of just a total isolated sort of spider, farm.
No Such Thing As The Kevin Olympics, 2014-11-28 · listen
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