Harting is a parish in West Sussex situated on the north face of the South Downs. It is comprised of four villages, South Harting, & Nyewood, plus West & East Harting. The River Rother divides it from Rogate to the north, and the southern border is on the Downs.
 
The larger of the villages, South Harting, has two churches, Anglican and Congregational plus a primary school. After the closure of the Ship Inn, Harting is now down to a single pub, The White Hart on the High Street.
 
The villages are overlooked by Harting Down with views of the Channel and the Isle of Wight. To the east of Harting Down is Beacon Hill which is home to a hill fort built 2,500 years ago and from 1796 to 1816 was a station for the shutter telegraph chain, which connected the Admiralty in London to its ships in Plymouth and Portsmouth.
 
Although Harting Down was first occupied around 3000BC a large portion of it has never been farmed intensively, and is important in representing the chalk grassland that once covered the downs.