Editing South East England (section)

==Culture==
The culture of South East England has been influenced a number of factors: by its part of contributing to the "idealised English identity", due to the region's historic idyllic rural landscape;<ref name="conv-N/S">{{cite web |last1=Hughes |first1=Alan |last2=Atkinson |first2=Peter |url=http://theconversation.com/englands-north-south-divide-is-history-but-the-nations-rifts-are-deepening-99044 |title=England's north-south divide is history – but the nation's rifts are deepening |publisher=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]] |date=1 July 2018 |access-date=26 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926131119/http://theconversation.com/englands-north-south-divide-is-history-but-the-nations-rifts-are-deepening-99044 |archive-date=26 September 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> its serving for [[Greater London]] as commuting [[hinterland]],<ref name="Pratt-SE create">{{cite journal |last1=Pratt |first1=Andy |title=Mapping the cultural industries: regionalization; the example of south-east England. |journal=Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy |date=2004 |issue=33 |pages=19–36 |isbn=9780415331012 |url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/9822/ |access-date=6 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926170242/http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/9822/ |archive-date=26 September 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> and, in recent times, the concentration of the UK's creative industry across the South East as well as London.<ref name="conv-N/S"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ccskills.org.uk/supporters/blog/5-outstanding-facts-about-the-south-east-creative-economy |title=5 outstanding facts about the South East creative economy |author=Andrea Stark |publisher=Creative & Cultural Skills |date=14 March 2016 |access-date=26 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926130902/https://ccskills.org.uk/supporters/blog/5-outstanding-facts-about-the-south-east-creative-economy |archive-date=26 September 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Literature, TV Puppetry & Animation, Cinema, Music and Cuisine===
[[Ashdown Forest]] in [[East Sussex]] was the inspiration for the [[Hundred Acre Wood]] in the [[Winnie-the-Pooh]] stories by [[A.A. Milne]] who also lived in the nearby village of [[Hartfield]] and visited the forest with his son [[Christopher Robin]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ashdownforest.org/winnie-the-pooh/pooh.php |title=About Pooh |website=www.ashdownforest.org |access-date=16 June 2020 |archive-date=16 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616152424/https://www.ashdownforest.org/winnie-the-pooh/pooh.php |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Alice Liddell]], also known as Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for Alice in [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', spent the majority of her childhood living in [[Oxford]], and in her later years lived in and around [[Lyndhurst, Hampshire]] after her marriage to Reginald Hargreaves. She is buried in the graveyard of St Michael and All Angels Church in the town.<ref name="nfp">{{cite web |url=http://www.newforestparishes.com/page8/page2/lyndhurst.html |title=New Forest Parishes |publisher=New Forest Parishes |access-date=22 March 2014 |archive-date=28 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128100032/http://www.newforestparishes.com/page8/page2/lyndhurst.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Roger Hargreaves]] lived in Lower Sunbury on the River Thames on the next to [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames|Richmond upon Thames]] borough boundary, and wrote his ''[[Mr. Men]]'' books. [[Mary Tourtel]] from Canterbury created ''[[Rupert Bear]]''. [[Frank Hampson]], of ''[[Dan Dare]]'', drew all his pictures when he lived in the east of Epsom, off the [[A2022 road|A2022]]. Buckinghamshire's [[E. L. James]] author of the [[erotic romance novels|erotic romance]] ''[[Fifty Shades (novel series)|Fifty Shades Trilogy]]'' has the UK record for the fastest-selling [[paperback]] of all time.

''[[Trumpton]]'' (1967) was based on [[Plumpton, East Sussex]], with other titles in the series based on nearby villages; ''Trumpton'' was actually shot by [[Gordon Murray (puppeteer)|Gordon Murray]]'s company in [[Crouch End]], London. [[Gerry Anderson]]'s [[AP Films]] filmed ''[[Thunderbirds (TV series)|Thunderbirds]]'' on the Slough Trading Estate near to the site's [[cooling tower]]s, being first broadcast in 1965. The [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] woman [[Pocahontas]] is buried at [[St George's Church, Gravesend]] in [[Kent]] and was the inspiration for the popular [[Pocahontas (1995 film)|Disney animated film of the same name]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pocahontas-the-gravesend-connection-1595037.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pocahontas-the-gravesend-connection-1595037.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Pocahontas: the Gravesend connection |date=23 October 2011 |website=The Independent}}</ref>

The first multiplex cinema in the UK was in Milton Keynes, in the mid-1980s.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-38717476 |title=Milton Keynes at 50: Landmark in cinema |work=BBC News}}</ref>

Elgar wrote his [[Cello Concerto (Elgar)|Cello Concerto]] at [[Fittleworth]], West Sussex, in 1919. [[Isaac Watts]], a hymn writer from Southampton, wrote ''[[When I Survey the Wondrous Cross]]'' and ''[[O God, Our Help in Ages Past]]''. [[John Goss (composer)|John Goss]], who wrote the hymn tune for ''[[Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven]]'', came from Fareham. At [[Chalfont St Giles]], [[John Milton|Milton]] finished ''[[Paradise Lost]]''. Olney in Buckinghamshire is known for the ''[[Olney Hymns]]'' - ''Amazing Grace'', and for [[Henry Gauntlett]], the composer of the tune of ''[[Once in Royal David's City]]''.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1= Trolley |first1= Terence |last2= Blizzard |first2= Judith |title= Gauntlett, Henry John |date= 23 September 2004 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/10462 |freearticle=y}}</ref> The Christian non-profit music festival ''Big Church Day Out'' takes place annually on the last Saturday and Sunday of May at [[Wiston House]], [[Wiston, West Sussex|Wiston]] in [[West Sussex]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bigchurchdayout.com/south |title=Big Church Day Out 2020 |website=bigchurchdayout.com |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605215621/https://bigchurchdayout.com/south |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Pimm's]] was invented by [[James Pimm]] of Kent in the 1820s.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last= McConnell |first= Anita |title= Pimm, James |date=  22 September 2005 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/92811 }}</ref> [[Banoffee pie]] was invented in 1972 in [[Willingdon and Jevington|Jevington]] in East Sussex. [[Maria Ann Smith]] from Sussex emigrated to Australia and created the [[Granny Smith]] apple. Horticulturist [[Richard Cox (horticulturist)|Richard Cox]] lived in [[Colnbrook]], where he bred his [[Cox's Orange Pippin]], a popular apple. [[Elizabeth David]], a cookery writer who [[Elizabeth David bibliography|revolutionised]] the nation's [[English cuisine|home cooking]] in the 1950s, came from Sussex.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peskett |first=Words Louise |date=2020-09-07 |title=Meet six of Sussex's most iconic cooks |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/sussex-cooks-from-eliza-acton-to-fanny-cradock-7287322 |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=Great British Life |language=en-UK |archive-date=19 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419130304/https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/sussex-cooks-from-eliza-acton-to-fanny-cradock-7287322 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Media===
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====Television====
[[Image:Kingswood Warren - geograph.org.uk - 3774.jpg|thumb|right|[[BBC Research]] was based until 2010 in [[Kingswood, Surrey|Kingswood Warren]] near Reigate in [[Surrey]] on the [[A217 road|A217]], which was responsible for developing [[NICAM|stereo]] and [[High-definition television|HD]] TV broadcasts and [[teletext]].]]

The [[BBC]] operate ''[[South Today]]'' ([[BBC South]]) out of Havelock Road, Southampton and ''[[South East Today]]'' ([[BBC South East]]) in [[Tunbridge Wells]], [[Kent]]. ''[[ITV News Meridian]]'' ([[ITV Meridian]]) which has sub-regions for the South and South East based in [[Whiteley]], near [[Fareham]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC South |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pfl4 |url-status=live |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507194417/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pfl4 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC South East |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pfp8 |url-status=live |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507194417/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pfp8 }}</ref>

**Television coverage for Buckinghamshire is complex and is split three ways depending on location. The western part of the county is in the BBC South and ITV Meridian (South Coast sub-region).{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Much of Milton Keynes UA is covered by [[BBC East]] based in [[Norwich]], with the ''[[BBC Look East|Look East]]'' programme; similarly the ITV region for most of Milton Keynes is [[ITV Anglia]] with the ''[[ITV News Anglia]]'' programme, also from Norwich. South of the county is covered by ''[[BBC London News]]'' and ''[[ITV London News]]'' which both broadcast from [[London]].
*''[[That's Solent TV]]'', a subsidiary TV station from [[That's TV]] based in Portsmouth, covers Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Southampton and Winchester.<ref>{{cite web |date=27 November 2014 |title=That's Solent TV station begins broadcasting on Freeview |url=https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11631368.thats-solent-tv-station-begins-broadcasting-on-freeview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103171720/https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11631368.thats-solent-tv-station-begins-broadcasting-on-freeview/ |archive-date=3 January 2021 |access-date=3 January 2021 |work=[[Southern Daily Echo]] |publisher=[[Newsquest]]}}</ref>
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====Radio====
*[[BBC Local Radio]] services in the region include [[BBC Berkshire|Berkshire]], [[BBC Surrey|Surrey]], [[BBC Sussex|Sussex]], [[BBC Radio Solent|Solent]], [[BBC Radio Oxford|Oxford]], and [[BBC Radio Kent|Kent]], with Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes served by [[BBC Three Counties Radio]] (which also covers Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, and falls under the [[BBC East]] region).
*Commercial radio stations include:
**[[Heart South]] serves much of the region, created in 2019 by the combination of [[Heart Sussex and Surrey]] (formerly [[Heart Sussex]] of Brighton and [[Mercury FM]] in [[Crawley]]), [[Heart Thames Valley]] ([[Heart Berkshire]] and [[Heart Oxfordshire]]), [[Heart South Coast]] ([[Heart Dorset and New Forest]] and [[Heart Hampshire]]), and [[Heart Kent]]. Milton Keynes is served by - and is the studio base of - [[Heart East]] (via the former [[Heart 103.3]]/Horizon Radio)
**[[Capital South]] (previously known as Galaxy South Coast/Power FM based in [[Segensworth]] and [[Capital Brighton|Juice 107.2]] in Brighton)
**[[Greatest Hits Radio South]] operates on the former frequencies of The Breeze (previously [[Andover Sound]], [[Newbury Sound]] (former Kick FM), [[Reading 107 FM]], and [[Kestrel FM]] (Basingstoke)), [[Spirit FM (UK radio station)|Spirit FM]] ([[Chichester]]), and [[96.4 Eagle Radio]] (Guildford). In Buckinghamshire, [[Greatest Hits Radio East]] took the place of [[Mix 96 (Aylesbury)]] on FM and this was added to the Herts/Beds/Bucks DAB multiplex.
**Greatest Hits Radio South Coast, formerly regional adult contemporary station [[Wave 105]] in South Hampshire and East Dorset, and following its transition to GHR (with its own dedicated breakfast and afternoon shows separate from those on the other stations in the South) also broadcasts on the former [[Wessex FM]] and [[Vale FM]] frequencies in Dorset, which previously carried GHR South and GHR West respectively. Broadcast from the same studio complex as GHR South, the former Wave 105 base at Fareham
**[[Nation Broadcasting]] operates two services based in Southampton: [[Nation Radio South Coast]] (a regional station, previously broadcasting as Greatest Hits Radio South Coast, Sam FM, JACK FM and Original 106), and [[The Breeze (South & East Hampshire)|Easy Radio South Coast]] (former Hits Radio South Coast, 107.4 The Quay, Portsmouth; The Saint, Southampton; and Dream 107.2, Winchester).
**More Radio is broadcast on four frequencies in Sussex, previously [[Arrow FM (Hastings)|Arrow FM]] ([[Hastings]]), [[Bright 106.4 FM]] ([[Burgess Hill]]), [[Sovereign FM]] ([[Hailsham]]), and [[More Radio Worthing|Splash FM]] (Worthing). A countywide service broadcasts on DAB, alongside from 2021 a digital-first sibling station, More Radio Retro.
**[[Isle of Wight Radio]]
**[[KMFM (radio network)|KMFM]], a network of seven stations in Kent, and a countywide DAB output, since 2012 sharing all programmes from the premises of [[KMFM Medway]]
** Milton Keynes is served by BBC Three Counties Radio, Heart FM and MKFM.
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====Newspapers====
The region is served by [[Southern Daily Echo]] (Southampton), [[Portsmouth News]], [[Hampshire Chronicle]] [[The Oxford Times|Oxford Times]], [[Oxford Journal]], [[Oxford Mail]],<ref>{{cite news |last= Way |first= Fran |date= 16 November 2019 |title= A look back in time at the Oxford Mail's history |work= Oxford Mail |url= https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18041035.look-back-time-oxford-mails-history/ |access-date= 29 May 2023 }}</ref> [[The Argus (Brighton)|Argus]] (Brighton), [[Reading Evening Post]], the [[KM Group]] titles (Kent), [[Surrey Advertiser]], [[Reading Chronicle]], [[Medway News]], [[KOS Media]] titles (Kent), [[Basingstoke Gazette]] ([[Basingstoke]]).<ref>{{cite web |date= 21 November 2020 |title= The history of the Basingstoke Gazette |work= Basingstoke Gazette |url= https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/18888454.history-basingstoke-gazette/ |access-date= 29 May 2023 }}</ref> and the [[Milton Keynes Citizen]].

===Sport===
[[File:Michael Whyte on Hickstead Derby Bank.jpg|thumb|right|Michael Whyte on Highpark Lad at the [[British Jumping Derby]] at Hickstead in June 2011.]]
[[File:Bat and Ball Sign.JPG|thumb|right|The [[Bat & Ball Inn, Clanfield]], the birthplace of cricket.]]
[[Badminton England]] is at Milton Keynes. The [[Royal Yachting Association]] (RYA) is headquartered at [[Hamble-le-Rice|Hamble]] in Hampshire. The [[World Squash Federation]] is headquartered in Hastings. [[England Hockey]] is headquartered at [[Bisham Abbey]] on the south side of the Thames. The first [[List of World Transplant Games (WTG)|World Transplant Games]] were held in Portsmouth in 1978.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://wtgf.org/history/ |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=World Transplant Games Federation |language=en-US |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507131305/https://wtgf.org/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[All England Jumping Course at Hickstead]] ([[Royal International Horse Show]]) is held (usually) at the A2300 Hickstead Interchange on the side of the A23, west of Burgess Hill, next to the [[River Adur]] in [[Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common]]. There are many horse-racing stables on the [[North Wessex Downs|Lambourn Downs]]. The [[Epsom Derby]] is held in early June.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Randall |first=John |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/806490675 |title=A century of champions : horse-racing's millennium book |date=1999 |publisher=Portway Press |others=Tony Morris |isbn=1-901570-15-0 |location=Halifax |oclc=806490675}}</ref> In the mid 18th century, the [[Hambledon Club|Hambledon Cricket Club]], in south-east Hampshire, was the focal point of modern cricket. It was here where a number of innovations were made to the game until the formation of [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] and the opening of [[Lord's|Lord's Cricket Ground]] in 1787.<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Cricket Council |url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/cricket/history-of-cricket/early-cricket#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20consensus%20of,clearings%20in%20south-east%20England. |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=www.icc-cricket.com |archive-date=22 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051607/https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/cricket/history-of-cricket/early-cricket#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20consensus%20of,clearings%20in%20south-east%20England. |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[BDO World Darts Championship]] are held in early January at [[Lakeside Leisure Complex]].<ref>{{cite news |date=7 January 2010 |title=Darts fan found dead in icy lake |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8446647.stm |access-date=25 November 2020 |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122235540/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8446647.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Edmondson |first=Nick |date=5 July 2013 |title=Company admits safety breaches over frozen lake death |url=http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/bob-potter-leisure-admits-safety-4875260 |access-date=25 November 2020 |website=SurreyLive |archive-date=13 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113161927/http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/bob-potter-leisure-admits-safety-4875260 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Wentworth Club|Wentworth Golf Club]] in Surrey is the home of the [[BMW PGA Championship]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BMW PGA CHAMPIONSHIP 2021 - European Tour |url=https://www.europeantour.com/european-tour/bmw-pga-championship-2021/ |access-date=2021-05-07 |website=www.europeantour.com |language=en-us |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507194417/https://www.europeantour.com/european-tour/bmw-pga-championship-2021/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Charles William Miller]], who went to school in Southampton, was responsible for taking football to Brazil. He had a Scottish father and a Brazilian mother; around the same time, [[Alexander Watson Hutton]], a Scottish teacher, had taken football to Argentina; [[Dresden English Football Club]], founded by British workers, would bring football to Germany.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wittner |first=Andreas |date=2006-07-03 |title=Als die Engländer noch dauernd siegten |language=German |work=DIE WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article227103/Als-die-Englaender-noch-dauernd-siegten.html |access-date=2021-05-07 |archive-date=21 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221222248/http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article227103/Als_die_Englaender_noch_dauernd_siegten.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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