There are many small villages whilst walking the South Downs Way. Some with more character than others, but all with the very much obliged pub. In Alfriston there are 3 to serve its population. And on a Thursday night one of them hosts a pub quiz. Remember all trivias have a question about Mexico, no matter where in the world you are. 
Pubs also can serve as accommodation. In this small village there is one that “housed a ‘Sanctuary Post’ which provided instant church protection to fugitives and smugglers”.    It is said that there was a gang that used it as a base and whose leader got sent to the prisons in Australia in 1830.