Talk:West Sussex

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Incomplete Add physical geography section describing geology, landscape, ecology and climate Add demographics section with info on population, population density, population change, age structure and any interesting and anomolous facts - see the county council website and the ONS Split list of places of interest to List of places in West Sussex and expand Introduction section: list county town with coords, neighbouring counties and coast, plus summarise notable and famous points about the county Get good references Add population and area data to all the towns and villages to List of places in West Sussex The 1911 Britannica may be useful for the history and physical geography sections. Completed Add history section and sub-page History of West Sussex or History of Sussex Add economy section including GDP and principle industries Add politics section listing which parties have MPs and how many of each party sit on the county council (Done) Add a section summarising the major settlements

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I am at the moment moving through the List of civil parishes in West Sussex giving all the parishes named an article. I have a (personal) template so that the opening of each article reads the same. I have not been putting in acreage/population but can easily do so, using the PDF file here. There are several good references for other details, but I am concentrating at the moment on getting something for each village/parish and to try to get more will only slow the process down. Peter Shearan 07:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I have updated the article by adding Settlements and a Communications and Transport sections, and I have moved the link to Places in West Sussex the latter of these sections. I have also edited the introduction, adding information on what West Sussex is known for. I have edited the Places of Interest Section, to make it more accessable.Curtis3250692 22:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

There is now a Politics section. Curtis3250692 23:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

This is a strange article. Although the seven Distict Councils get mentioned, the far larger West Sussex County Council is only included incidentally, and there are no details of its structure, services, etc. It's also interesting that although one County Council Department, Fire and Rescue, has its own entry, it merely stated (until I changed it) that it was "funded by West Sussex County Council", giving an impression of autonomy. Millbanks 07:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)