Download the full QR trail guide PDF here Navigate via page links below Up Marden Up Marden is a small rural community occupying the chalk ridge south of Apple Down, set in a Sussex downland landscape. During the Iron Age (1200 – 550 BC) and later Roman Period (43 – 410 AD), the land around …
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Stansted House & Park
Download the full QR 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 …
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 …
Tuppenny Barn
Tuppenny Barn is a UK registered charity with a vision to create a better future for our children by inspiring communities to learn about sustainable and organic food. They cultivate and harvest organic produce, using this to create learning experiences for all ages and to promote the benefits of growing, cooking and eating healthy food. …
Middleton House
Middleton House in Steels Lane Chidham is a handsome, 5-bay Georgian farmhouse faced in grey headers with red brick around the windows. Middleton House is listed Grade II* with Historic England and was built in 1759 as a farmhouse to Middleton Farm, the yard and barns of which were located to its north. Did you know? …
Nutbourne Watercress
Watercress is popular in salads and grown on a wide scale. In the wild it grows in shallow, fast-flowing streams and is an indicator of clean water. Watercress is a hardy, perennial, European herb (Nasturtium officinale) which grows naturally in wet soil along and in spring brooks, ditches and pond margins and is cultivated for …
Drift Lane
Drovers’ roads or droveways date back to medieval times. They are routes used for ‘driving’ livestock on foot from one place to another, so the animals can graze. Drift Lane on the Eastern side of Chidham and Hambrook Parish was such a droveway. It was used to drive cattle and sheep from the Chidham peninsula …
Chidham Village Hall
The building known as Chidham Village Hall was built as a ‘floor-malting’ malthouse and was part of a larger complex which included a well, pump house, granary and cottage. Did you know? Malt is grain that has been artificially germinated, with the germination process stopped at a critical point by kiln drying. The most common …