Traditional county: East Sussex · District / Borough: Lewes · Region: South East
Explore Ditchling Common, East Sussex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Ditchling Common map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ditchling Common, East Sussex, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Ditchling Common |
| Traditional County | East Sussex |
| District / Borough | Lewes |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.945485 |
| Longitude | -0.094942 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Ditchling Common reveals itself through a sprawling expanse of heathland where the sky seems to press closer to the earth than elsewhere in the Lewes district. It lies 1.9 miles east-south-east of Burgess Hill (from Burgess Hill: bearing 115°T, OS grid TQ 339 179), and is situated south-west of Wivelsfield Green village. The light here catches the damp, silvered grasses of the Ditchling Common SSSI, a site that holds the quiet, ancient memory of traditional grazing lands. As a protected territory within the South Downs National Park, Ditchling Common offers a wide, unencumbered horizon that invites the wind to sweep across its open reaches. To the north-west, the hidden, meandering path of the River Adur (Eastern Branch) marks the landscape with a faint, moisture-rich vein that sustains the local flora. The terrain here possesses a stark, unadorned honesty, stripped of excessive ornament and defined by the raw pulse of the changing seasons. Ditchling Common remains a place where the modern world thins out, leaving behind only the essential weight of the soil and the vast, shifting canopy of the Sussex air.
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Explore Ditchling Common, East Sussex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.945485, -0.094942. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |