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South Chailey maps
Historic maps of South Chailey and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all South Chailey maps
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Chailey Green| Barcombe| Newick| Plumpton| Offham| Scaynes Hill| Ditchling| Fletching| Lewes| Ringmer| Keymer| Burgess Hill| Hassocks| Haywards Heath| Lindfield| Glyndebourne| Kingston Near Lewes| Uckfield| Falmer| Clayton| Maresfield| Glynde| Cuckfield| Whitemans Green| Fairwarp| Patcham
South Chailey area books
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The Beards of Chailey Green Shop
My family were the Beards from the shop on the green next to the church. They had the shop from around 1754 to around the 1930s. George Beard the first was good friends with Thomas Turner who kept a diary, he recorded eleven colourful years of life in a Georgian village. Anyone who remembers them please keep in touch, I would love to hear your story. My grandmother was Evelyn Emma Beard / Kirkham.
Thanks for your help.
serenamkirkham@hotmail.com
Beards
My family the Beards used to run the mill in the 1800s. They also had the shop on the green which was there for over three hundred years.
Conyboro School, Cooksbridge
I went to school here in 1979-1985. Loved being out in the country. We had fun going to visit the farms. And walking to Lewes. We had taken part in the Lewes bonfire night parade every year. I also went to girl guides in Barcombe. And did amateur dramatics in Lewes.
Family Tree at Barcombe
My great-grandmother was born here in 1847, Elizabeth Reed. Her father William was employed as a farming bailiff. I recently drove 200 miles to take photos of the fine church in the village, only to return home and see a better one on the net. However I did find 2 gravestones with Reed names on them.
Such a pretty village I was very pleased to have visited it, and almost wished the family had not moved away.
1931-1945 School Walk to The 'V'
This is actually my father's memory, told to me as I am researching our family history. My father, Douglas March, grew up in Plumpton Green from 1931 - 1944. He lived with his parents and sister, at a house called Hilltop, at the top of the main road until about 1941-42, when a parachute bomb damaged the house. The family moved further back down into the village to a house called Fir Croft, on the corner of Chapel Lane. They moved from Fir Croft in late 1944/early 1945 and the house then became a butchers shop. It is now called Devon House - the Stove shop. My father remembers a school trip where the children walked from the village school on Ascension day up to the 'V' on the South Downs, almost opposite Streat. He also mentioned collecting the silks attached to the parachute bomb and selling them for about £7-8, which was a lot of money then. His mother's family... Read more
Coombe Place
I was born in this lovely house in1970. My parents worked here for Mr. Cannon from 1960 until 1983. We then moved to Italy, my parents home country. I have many sweet memories but unfortunately I have lost all contacts, maybe because when we went to Italy I was only 13.All I know is that the Cannons died many years ago and the house was sold.I hope to go back for a visit soon, to show my children where I grew up...very happily!
Growing up at Coombe Place
My family and I moved to a bungalow at Coombe Place in 1960. My father, Walter Motley, took up the post of farm manager on this 100 acre dairy farm with a herd of Jersey cattle. Coombe Place is set on the side of the South Downs with views across the Weald of Sussex. It was a truly magical place to grow up with a 50 acre beech wood to explore and make camps in, numerous old farm buildings with lofts and secret hideaways to explore and the 'big house' garden with its treehouse, croquet lawn and tennis court which the owners, Mr and Mrs Richard Cannon, let us use when they were away on their extended holidays abroad. The 'big house' in the picture still has evidence of the old victorian kitchens below stairs and there is an original ice house a short walk from the house. The house is also linked with a tunnel under the lawn to the stable courtyard so that the Victorian ladies could walk... Read more
