Hartfield
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Hartfield books (20 available)
Crawley Town Walk Guide
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Villages of Sussex Pocket Album
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Hailsham Photographic Memories
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Hartfield memories
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Hartfield in the late 1920s
My friend Hannah Rooth (Nee Symonds) can remember living in Hartfield in the late 1920s and 1930s. She lived at Kilnwood, in Cotchford Lane, and was married in the church in 1937. She then lived in Paddock Cottage in the same lane. In Hartfield in those days there were two pubs, a grocers, a bakers, a post office, village hall, and of course the church and church school. The village was very quiet, but there was the WI in the village hall, cricket matches, and maypole dancing at the school.
Contributed by Rosemary Bennett
East Sussex memories
Hartfield in the late 1920s
My friend Hannah Rooth (Nee Symonds) can remember living in Hartfield in the late 1920s and 1930s. She lived at Kilnwood, in Cotchford Lane, and was married in the church in 1937. She then lived in Paddock Cottage in the same lane. In Hartfield in those days there were two pubs, a grocers, a bakers, a post office, village hall, and of course the church and church school. The village was very quiet, but there was the WI in the village hall, cricket matches, and maypole dancing at the school.
A memory of Hartfield contributed by Rosemary Bennett
Charles and Eileen Brackenbury
I would like to dedicate this memory to my mother and father Charles Richard and Eileen Brackenbury. May they always be rembered for ever, love Lynda and family xxxxx
A memory of Withyham contributed by lynda evans
My memories from when I was young
I was born and bought up in Withyham. I lived at the farm at the top of the common until we moved to a house in Balls Green.
When I was five I went to Withyham School. My favourite teacher was Miss Hosker. Mrs Jenner ran the girls' club in the hall behind the Dorset Arms, where we played games on the cricket field when it was a nice evening and if it were raining we would play games in the hall.
Withyham had only one shop with post office and a garage which sadly has gone, and there is no shop or garage now.
When I was eleven I went to Crowbrough School which later became Crowbrough Beacon School. ...read more here
A memory of Withyham contributed by lynda evans
Extracts From Hartfield & East Sussex books
We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown
Forest, near the Kent border. The 13th-century church of
St Mary is on a knoll in the centre of the village. The
Lychgate, c1520, is a half-timbered cottage by the churchyard
with an upper floor extending above. Bolebrooke was a 16th-
century brick mansion, once the home of the Dalyngrigge and
Sackville families; only fragments survive.
An extract from from"Villages of Sussex Pocket Album".
Here we see a knife grinder at work in this atmospheric picture of a deserted Hartfield. It is a delightful village on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest above the river Medway. Today Hartfield is best known for its association with Winnie-the-Pooh, whose creator, A A Milne, lived for many years at nearby Cotchford Farm.
An extract from from"Times Gone By".
Here we see a knife grinder at work in this atmospheric picture of a deserted Hartfield. It is a delightful village on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest above the river Medway. Today Hartfield is best known for its association with Winnie-the-Pooh, whose creator, A A Milne, lived for many years at nearby Cotchford Farm.
An extract from from"Countryside Poems".
It is now time to leave
the town and what better
way than by train? This
station, the town’s third,
was opened in 1882 and
included accommodation
for the stationmaster,
who in 1911 was William
Langley.
An extract from from"East Grinstead Photographic Memories".
opticians; International Stores,
grocers; Freeman, Hardy & Willis,
shoes; Kerry, ladies’ fashions; and
Lovibonds, wine merchants.
An extract from from"East Grinstead Photographic Memories".