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Around twenty miles northeast of Brighton lies the country estate of Sheffield Park , its centrepiece a Gothic mansion built for Lord Sheffield by James Wyatt. The house is closed to the public, but you can roam around the hundred-acre gardens (Jan & Feb Sat & Sun 10.30am-4pm; March-Oct Tues-Sun & public holidays 10.30am-6pm; Nov & Dec Tues-Sun 10.30am-4pm; GBP4.60, combined ticket with Bluebell Railway GBP10.50; NT), which were laid out by Capability Brown, the Christopher Wren of the grassy knoll. A mile south of the gardens lies the southern terminus of the Bluebell Railway (May-Sept daily; Oct-April Sat, Sun & school holidays; day ticket GBP8; tel 01825/720800, ), whose vintage steam locomotives chuff nine miles north via Horsted Keynes to Kingscote. Although the service gets extremely crowded on weekends - especially in May, when the bluebells blossom in the woods through which the line passes - it's an entertaining and nostalgic way of travelling through the Sussex countryside and your day ticket lets you go to and fro as often as you like.
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