"The East Sussex town built on the field of Hastings fills its streets and gardens with scarecrows for two weeks each July, a festival that plays with the history of battle and Norman conquest while somehow ending up being extremely cheerful."
Battle Scarecrow Festival
"For 16 September days, hundreds of artists and makers open studios, homes and galleries across the Lewes District villages from Lewes to Seaford, Newhaven and the surrounding countryside in its 32nd year as the South East's most accessible open art festival."
Artwave Festival
"One of the earliest events of the Sussex bonfire season sends costumed societies and burning torches through a pretty Wealden village high street."
Mayfield Bonfire
✦ Weird & Wonderful"This small Wealden village keeps the old Sussex tradition alive with a torchlit procession, costumed marchers and a village bonfire and fireworks."
Northiam Bonfire
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Thirty specialist nurseries gather at Christopher Lloyd's legendary experimental garden for a weekend of rare plants, short plantsmanship talks at the stalls and famous cake."
Great Dixter Autumn Plant Fair
"Six rival bonfire societies fill the narrow streets with blazing torches, burning crosses and exploding effigies in the wildest Fifth of November spectacle in the world."
Lewes Bonfire Night Celebrations
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Visiting societies and burning torches process past the abbey where the Battle of Hastings was fought, ending with a roaring bonfire and fireworks."
Battle Bonfire
✦ Weird & Wonderful"A torchlit pageant winds through the medieval cobbled hilltop town before a blazing boat is consigned to the flames at The Salts."
Rye Bonfire Pageant
✦ Weird & Wonderful"A whole village rises before dawn for a Bonfire Breakfast and a guy competition before a torchlit procession winds to the recreation ground for grand fireworks."
Robertsbridge Bonfire
✦ Weird & Wonderful"One of England's most spectacular May Day folk revivals, this four-day festival sees a giant leaf-covered Jack lead a thundering procession of Morris sides, giants and drummers through Hastings Old Town before being slain on West Hill to release the spirit of summer."
Hastings Jack in the Green