Westmeston is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England heavily dependent in amenities on larger Ditchling to the near-immediate northwest.

[3] Middleton drove (TQ 349 169), between The Plantation and Streat Lane Green, was used by villagers to seasonally move their livestock and crops and continues deeper into the weald.

Clayton to Offham Escarpment is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, which stretches from Hassocks in the west and passes through many parishes including Westmeston, to Lewes in the east.

[4] A stone marking the resting place of King Ealdwulf of Sussex, circa 765, lies opposite St. Martin's Church at the village centre.

Gallops Farm (TQ 351 176) has a part-ancient and timber framed farmhouse and a small, weather boarded barn.

It is special as it has retained most of its pattern of little fields and hedgerows and the geese and chickens foraged on the lane side waste until recently.

The wood is largely hornbeam coppice and oak, but it also has maple, silver birch, wild cherry and midland thorn, all of which grow over the spring anemones and bluebells.

There is a narrow field along the southern boundary of the wood (TQ 345 186), which closely coincides with a thin sandstone band, and this may have provided enough of an incentive to assart and plough that strip.

There are two bands of Sussex marble/winklestone outcrop in wandering lines through the middle of the wood (where the ground rises to a small hill) and across the south east corner.

The south of the parish rises to the top of the Downs and the slope forms part of Clayton to Offham Escarpment, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The horse paddocks south east of the farmstead, (c. TQ 334 113), have several prehistoric lynchets, which were a feature of ancient field systems, that make giant steps down the valley.

On the steepest part you can find harebell, quaking grass and restharrow below the scrub, and chalk grassland butterflies such as common blue can be seen here.

Like Streathill Farm, High Park was carved out of the ancient sheep pastures in the mid-19th century corn boom.

Unfortunately, there are accounts of regular visits from farmers and other thugs using violence to evict the gypsies, who must have included many small children, often organised by the Ditchling Constable.

In Spring, the Westmeston bostal is rich with wildflower and harbours a huge old ash pollard (TQ 340 130), which many seek out to admire.

There was a large heath snail population where a spur turned to face south, but their numbers had drastically dwindled when I last looked".

The ward also includes Chailey itself, Ditchling, East Chiltington, Newick, St John Without, Streat, Plumpton and Wivelsfield.