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Stanmer Park

Falmer, GB

Stanmer Park

Stanmer Park is a large public park within the Brighton and Hove city boundary. It is a Local Nature Reserve and English Heritage, under the National Heritage Act 1983, has registered the park on the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England at Grade II level. The eightee

nth century park contains the Grade I listed Stanmer House and also 25 Grade II listed buildings and structures. These form the village of Stanmer and Stanmer Church within the park, which would once have been the estate of the house. All were private until bought by Brighton's Council in 1947. There is a café, Stanmer Tea Rooms, in the village. Stanmer is surrounded by Sussex University to the east, Wild Park and Coldean to the southwest, more woodland with clay soils to the north west and the farmed South Downs. It is nestled in the South Downs National Park. Immediately to the south of the park runs the major A27 road.

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