Sussex Ring is a junction containing a small parade of shops.
By 1933, the nucleus of Woodside Park Garden Suburb had become a compact and virtually self-sufficient community. Since there were no buses and very few cars, the residents did most of their shopping at the cluster of shops at Sussex Ring, located at the junction of Lullington Garth and Walmington Fold.
Such shops included a grocer, butcher, greengrocer, tobacconist/newsagent, baker, chemist/optician, hairdresser, off-license, ironmonger, and the Little Shop which sold wool and haberdashery.
The suburb then comprised a cluster of roads in a semicircle to the west of the shops. Most of Cissbury Ring was still open fields although some work had started on Cissbury Ring South. Walmington Fold did not extend further south than number 48.
Open fields used for grazing by the Express Dairy lay to the west (towards Frith lane) and it was possible to walk across the fields to The Orange Tree public house in the north. Frith Lane remained a track and the only road access to the suburb was from Nether Street down Argyle Road into Lullington Garth. Access to the railway station was along a path which led across the bridge in the park and through a locked gate into Holden Road. Residents were given keys.
