John B wrote:

There's some logic there - however, given that Crawley, Horsham,
Worthing and Gatwick are in W Sussex, the issue is more that
Chichester (right on the western border) is a daft place to put the
administration for a region whose population is concentrated in its
east.

Maybe it was like Bonn... the capital was as far from the east as possible
in case of invasion.

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