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Caption For Crowborough, All Saints Church 1900

On the eastern edge of the beautiful Ashdown Forest, the town is now a commuter settlement.

Caption For Forest Row, The Village 1909

A large village on the northern edge of the Ashdown Forest, Forest Row was a popular place in the 14th century when the King and his Lords used it as a base for hunting.

Caption For Colemans Hatch, The Forge And Hatch Inn 1927

A small village on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, east of Forest Row.

Caption For Colemans Hatch, The Forge And Hatch Inn 1927

A small village on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, east of Forest Row.

Caption For Uckfield, High Street 1904

Continuing south-east across Ashdown Forest, the tour finishes at Uckfield, a town now by-passed and the terminus of a commuter railway line to London, the continuation to Lewes having been closed.

Caption For Forest Row, The Village 1909

A large village on the northern edge of the Ashdown Forest, Forest Row was a popular place in the 14th century when the King and his Lords used it as a base for hunting.

Caption For Hartfield, 1906

We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border.

Caption For Alton, Ashdell 1897

After the deth of Frederick Crowley, Ashdown was acquired by Guy Ferrand, who changed the name to Morland Hall.

Caption For Crowborough, All Saints Church And Vicarage 1900

Situated on the eastern edge of the beautiful Ashdown Forest, the town is now a commuter settlement.

Caption For Crowborough, Cross, Street 1900

In the 1870s a Dr Prince persuaded Lord Abergavenny, the landowner, to develop this area, bordering the Ashdown Forest and set at a healthy 800 ft above sea level, as a health resort.

Caption For Clacton On Sea, The Beach 1904

Part of it was a pumping station used to pump sea water to standpipes dotted around the town for Council workmen to draw off water to wash down the dusty streets.