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Burwash, East Sussex
Burwash maps
Historic maps of Burwash and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Burwash maps
Historic map of Burwash
Illustrated Victorian map of East Sussex
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Burwash books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Burwash and the local area. View all Burwash books
Sussex County Memories
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Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories
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East Grinstead Photographic Memories
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Memories of Burwash
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I went to school at st.Josephs Salesian school a mile outside Burwash from 1939-1946
I recall there were about 10 pubs in the village and I stayed one summer with the Davies family who lived just before the church in a smugglers house where we went to bed through a hole in the wall .I remember the Hollamby's,Miles'and the Woodalls who... [more]
Shared on 29 January 2008
My grandfather, A J Hurd, was, for a time, Rudyard Kipling's head gardener at Batemans. He, my grandmother and my mother (now Joyce Richardson) and her sister (now Barbara Wainwright) lived in one of the cottages (which still exists) near the mill adjacent to Batemans. In addition to his responsibilities in the gardens, Grandpa also worked with the private hydro-electric turbine... [more]
Shared on 11 November 2009
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Etchingham Banks on Wedds Farm
This is taken from one of my fields, known as Etchingham Banks, on what was then Wedds Farm. It is in fact in Etchingham parish, not Ticehurst, a strange anomaly considering it's half a mile from the church. If you go up there now, the view is almost the same. The field is still grass and still has bullocks and sheep... [more]
Shared on 09 November 2009
I had the pleasure of working in Ticehurst, for a couple of years, back in the seventies. They were wonderful days for me.
I shall never forget some of the village 'characters' such as Tom the Baker, Wally Palmer and Doctor Childs...wonder whatever happened to them?
Take care of this precious village...I for one just love it.
Shared on 07 January 2009
Taken from the spot I grew up:
It took me a while to recognise the angle of this photo as from almost exactly the position my parents house was built on! Where the road ahead divides, another road to the left was later added, leading to my father's fruit farm which I grew up working on.
The view in the photo is unhindered by the present housing... [more]
Shared on 23 December 2007
Singehurst pond was the place for both girls and boys to go fishing with their bags of dampened bread and makeshift fishing rods. Throughout the season we caught loads and then returned our catch at the end of an outing, sometimes staying out all day. It was an excuse to meet up with friends and other village children with... [more]
Shared on 23 December 2007
My name is David Effer and we lived in Ticehurst from 1954 to 1968 when we left for Australia. We lived in Springfields and I had 4 brothers and two sisters. My father worked at Ticehurst House as a chef. Mum and dad have passed on now and one sister lives in Sicily.
Shared on 18 April 2007
This view brings back many childhood memories, I was born in the cottage on the right hand edge of the picture, in 1947, growing up on the farm there, and have lived within three miles of the area for the majority of my life.
Shared on 20 October 2006
Extracts From Burwash & East Sussex books
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A linear village along a ridge between the Rother and Dudwell rivers, Burwash prospered in the Wealden iron industry. Then it declined, and found an unsavoury niche as a smuggling and sheep-rustling centre. Here are a group of young citizens of Burwash with rural baby carts (hardly prams) photographed over a century ago. This view freezes yesterday's rural community during the... [more]
This is an extract from Sussex Photographic Memories.
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Sussex Revisited Photographic Memories
The picturesque village of Burwash was once a centre of the Wealden iron industry. Nearby stands Batemans, a 17th-century iron-master's house, the home of Rudyard Kipling for many years. Several fine period dwellings survive in the village. On the left is Shadwell Row: although greatly modified over the years, it incorporates two original houses dating from the late medieval period. The... [more]
This is an extract from Sussex Revisited Photographic Memories.
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Villages of Sussex Photographic Memories
Burwash was a centre for Sussex iron making. After the iron industry ceased production, the locality was less prosperous; the common became notorious for 18th-century lawlessness. Batemans was built in 1634 for an ironmaster; later it was the home of Rudyard Kipling (1902-1936). It is a beautiful Jacobean house, now in the care of the National Trust and open to visitors.... [more]
This is an extract from Villages of Sussex Photographic Memories.
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