It is now divided by the A27, but has some special downland areas and has well trod paths for the people of Lewes, which sits to its east, wishing to enjoy the Sussex Downs.

Looking up from Newmarket or north from Kingston Hill, below the scarp, there is a great arable field with two steep slopes.

There are still cowslips, fragrant orchids, milkwort and dropwort, which support a rich array of insects, butterflies and moths.

The slope to the east, known as Scabby Brow (TQ 384 088), was also relict Down pasture and dense scrub, supporting pyramidal orchis, scabious, knapweed, and breeding whitethroat, but, despite complaints by locals and DEFRA's intervention, the farmer bulldozed the site and converted it to arable in the early years of the 21st century.

The roof was originally bricked in a circular fashion but was stolen in the 1940s before East Sussex County Council restored it in the 1950s.

One along the worn tracksides was still visible even after the turn of the century, and a rich fragment of old Down pasture flora survived on top and around it with rare bastard toadflax, horseshoe vetch, autumn gentian, thyme and the lichen, Cladonia rangiformis, but all that has now been lost to scrub encroachment.

An ancient terrace way (TQ 381 092), now a public footpath, rises from the A27 opposite Newmarket to the top of Long Hill above Ashcombe Farm.

[6] It forms a fine corridor of ancient turf and the two little white ghosts, mullein wave moth and white plume moth, can be found there on a summer's evening amongst the pyramidal orchid, crested hairgrass, hairy rock-cress, milkwort and Sussex Rampion.

The south face of Long Hill (TQ 375 092) is not rich in old Down pasture herbs, but is still flowery in parts.

There are fragrant, pyramidal and spotted orchids, cowslips, chalk and common milkworts, heath speedwell, betony, devil’s-bit, lesser scabious, rockrose, ox-eye daisy and the round-headed rampion.

It is a shallow, dry valley with dense thorn scrub, young woodland and open, long views.

The election on 4 May 2007 elected a Liberal Democrat[8] East Sussex County Council is the next tier of government, for which St Ann Without is within the Newhaven and Ouse Valley West division, with responsibility for Education, Libraries, Social Services, Civil Registration, Trading Standards and Transport.