The report found Hastings to be in the top one per cent for industrial heritage and parks and open spaces, as well as the top five per cent for landscape and natural heritage and for ‘cultures and memories’.
“The heritage of the town is marked and celebrated through some of the largest number of Heritage Open Days and blue plaques in the country,” the RSA report says.
Hastings ranks in the top nine per cent for museums, archives and artefacts and for ‘historic built environment’, the town is in the top 12 per cent.
Hastings has been named in the top five English ‘heritage assets’ – above Oxford and other historic locations.
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) released a report into the country’s heritage on Wednesday (September 23).
The RSA define heritage as, “anything inherited from the past that helps us, collectively or individually, to understand the present, and create a better future.”
www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/reports/seven-themes-from-the-heritage-index.
