Three Legged Cross
Three Legged Cross maps (2 available)
Map of East Sussex
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
See this old map of East Sussex
Personalised maps
Create an historic map centred directly on any postcode!
Three Legged Cross books (20 available)
Crawley Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Villages of Sussex Pocket Album
Paperback
Hailsham Photographic Memories
Paperback
Three Legged Cross memories
Read and share memories of Three Legged Cross and East Sussex inspired by Frith photos
Be the first to add a memory of Three Legged Cross.
You can also read memories of nearby places in East Sussex below.
East Sussex memories
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 developments of St Mary's Close and St Mary's Lane, as well as this year's (2007) new development on the old council yard. The piece of land in front of the camera is where Marlpit Gardens now stands.
A memory of Ticehurst contributed by Anne Lynch
Singehurst Pond
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 the same idea.
This was memorable, but more so were the occasional winters when the water froze over to several inches thick, and all the village children (and some adults) made their way there to slide on the ice. My friend, Julia, and I did whenever we could. The ice creaked continuously and ominously, but we were ever ...read more here
A memory of Ticehurst contributed by Anne Lynch
Ticehurst
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.
A memory of Ticehurst contributed by DAVID EFFER
Childhood memories
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.
A memory of Ticehurst contributed by Colin Boylett
Extracts From Three Legged Cross & East Sussex books
The railway originally
ended at Terminus Place
(which is hardly surprising),
and housing was laid out
along the old lane onto
the common: this became
Western Road, with Summer
Heath Road a turning off in
the distance of this view. All
the houses on the right, apart
from the one in the middle
distance with two hipped-
roofed bay windows, have
since been demolished. The
1960s library, together with
modern housing estates, have
replaced them. The survivor
is now a Citizens Advice
Bureau and a working men’s
club. The recreation ground
is on the left.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
Half a mile south of the hamlet with the parish church and Chiddingly Place is another
small hamlet, Muddles Green, where cottages fringe a small green. All four buildings in this
view are Victorian: the one on the left, Birch Cottage, is of the 1860s, and the one behind the
telephone pole, Jubilee Cottage, is dated 1887, while the others are of about 1900. Behind the
photographer is the 1906 village school, and on the right the green has been enlarged with
new houses built in the 1990s, Willetts Field.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
This interior view of the
church shows the 15th-
century nave arcades and
chancel arch; the ghost
of the original roof line
can be seen high above
the chancel arch. The
medieval roof survives, but
it was lifted in 1889 when
the Victorian clerestory
was added. The Victorian
improving biblical text
over the chancel arch has
been replaced by the more
familiar ‘Jesus said: I am the
way, the truth and the life’.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
This view is taken from the brick four-centred arch into Market Square. The brick footpath heads
towards the porch which, with the south aisle, was added in 1870 to designs by H E Rumble. Above
are the round quatrefoil windows of the clerestory added in 1889, which must have made the
interior much lighter. On the left are the backs of buildings that front the High Street, while the yews
and hollies in this view survive today.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".
Another view, similar to H6031
(above), shows the brick-paved
path and the holly bushes.
At the left is a silver birch,
which also survives today.
The fine 15th-century tower
with its Victorian pinnacles
is built in local Wealden
sandstone; its walls are the
least renewed or refaced part
of the church, whose three
Victorian restorations in 1870,
1878 and 1889 transformed the
appearance of the medieval
church’s nave and chancel
– indeed, the chancel was
entirely rebuilt.
An extract from from"Hailsham Photographic Memories".