Download the trail guide PDF here Navigate via page links below St Mary’s Church Stoughton This is the largest church in the Octagon Parish, made up of eight small downland churches all noted for their spiritual peace and tranquillity. Services are held at St Mary’s regularly and the church can be booked for weddings, christenings …
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Walderton
Download the trail guide PDF here Navigate via page links below Watergate House The land at Watergate was first mentioned in 1278. The origin of the name is not clear but it is possible that, as the valley here is very narrow and steep-sided, it may have been thought of as a gate through which …
West Marden
Download the trail guide PDF here Navigate via page links below West Marden This is an ancient hamlet surrounded by arable farmland and woodland on chalk downs. People have lived here for two millennia, with the remains of a 2nd to 4th century roman villa found near Cabragh house, one of the largest properties in …
Stansted House & Park
Download the trail guide PDF here Navigate via page links below Stansted Park The area now known as Stansted Park is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was included in the ‘Hundred of Bourne’. Did you know? The Hundred was a unit of English local government and taxation, intermediate between village and shire, …
Westbourne Square
Westbourne Square has been the centre of activity since the first recorded market and the focus of many fairs and commerce for a thousand years! The Earl of Arundel was the Lord of the Manor of Westbourne. Reverend Mee in his book ‘Bourne in the past’ mentions the Lamb Inn (owned by St John’s Church) …
Shippam’s Factory
In 1786 Charles Shippam opened a grocery store at West Gate, Chichester selling butter, cheese and meat collected from the West Country. His son George opened a grocery store in North Street, and in 1851 moved the business to 48 East Street. George also established relations with the Royal Navy so that, during the Napoleonic …
Slipper Mill Pond
Slipper Mill Pond is South of Hermitage Bridge on the A259 and forms the border between West Sussex and Hampshire. Its water source is the South Downs via a relatively recent diversions of the river Ems, a rare type of chalk upland stream or ‘Bourne’ where this area gets its name from. The first record …
Lumley & Brook Meadow
Part of Southbourne Parish and tucked away to the north of Peter Pond is the West Sussex village of Lumley, with Brook Meadow to the west. The area was part of the Stansted Estate at that time, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as being included in the Hundred of Bourne. The estate was huge and …
Lumley Mill
There have been mills in this area for over a thousand years, with four mentioned in the Domesday Book. The most important and largest was Lumley Mill. In 1327 there were three mills in the area, deemed ‘low value’ because there was often insufficient water to power the water wheels they relied on for their power …
Gas Holders
The gas holder was designed to store large volumes of gas locally and they were common in many towns and urban areas for 200 years. Did you know? Lots of people still call these ‘gasometers’, the name given to them in 1782 by the inventor of gas lighting, William Murdoch. His associates objected that his …