1066 Country - England's Timeless Treasure

This stretch of South Eastern coast and countryside is truly England's Timeless Treasure, a playground canvas of light on colour on which the seasons paint many different stories.  Yet the seasons are just one of 1066 Country's many authors and even the briefest glance at some of its greatest charms reveals an ever-changing masterpiece shaped by everything from chance, destiny and disaster to history itself.

1066 Country's past is part of its DNA, written into the hills and valleys that define its countryside, stained into the cobbled streets and narrow alleyways in towns like Rye and Hastings, burned into beaches like Bexhill and Camber.  The battlefield on which England's liberty was lost on that fateful October day is still open to the public as is the Abbey built by William the Conqueror to honour his victory.

The coast of 1066 Country frames the unfolding wonder of its towns, villages and countryside and is home to many remarkable communities with their own unique traditions and histories.

It's appropriate that many artists and writers have chosen 1066 Country as their home and inspiration.  From the impressionist JMW Turner (whose watercolour 'Hastings: Fishmarket on the Sands, Early Morning' was recently acquired by the Hastings Museum) to Kipling, Henry James and EF Benson, some of England's finest creative minds have had a hand in the unfolding majesty of 1066 Country - England's Timeless Treasure.