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This area was connected with the iron industry.The church has a Tudor doorway and a Norman piscina on a carved pillar.Thomas Turner, who lived in the village in the mid-18th century, left an important

Also here was the Iron Hall which belonged to the castle chapel of St Mary, from which it drew rents.

Stewarts rope works, along with the iron foundries at Waddington, Longbottom, Briggs, and Beveridge all became defunct.

One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.

One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for

The Marine Gardens below the iron railings on the left are now taken up by the Embassy Centre and the Compass Gardens, whilst the row of boarding houses on the right are converted to food and drink businesses

Apparatus for wheelwrighting is nearby; there is an iron cone for forging circular iron rings, and a flat circular area for laying out wheels.

Sedlescombe is a hillside village near Battle, with a large green.A local mill made the best gunpowder in Europe.An iron pot containing a large number of coins of Edward the Confessor was found in

This kind of view is often found in this region - 19th-century terraces sprang up to house workers in the coal and iron industries - but Kenfig has a long history dating back to the Bronze and Iron Ages

Apparatus for wheelwrighting is nearby, and there is an iron cone for forging circular iron rings and a flat circular area for laying out wheels.

Other names in Blakeney refer to iron making, which was a thriving industry in these parts.

Fore Street heads east from the Market Place to cross the River Parrett on the iron bridge dated 1883; this replaced an early Coalbrookdale cast-iron bridge of 1795.

There were many small iron foundries and tin plate works a century and more ago, but cultivated riverside walks replaced them.

It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tail- pole.The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.

This kind of view is often found in this region - 19th-century terraces sprang up to house workers in the coal and iron industries - but Kenfig has a long history dating back to the Bronze and Iron

The Waterloo Iron Works opened in 1813 and closed in 1984, making way for housing. The schoolhouse survives complete with its arch into the works.

This area was connected with the iron industry. The church has a Tudor doorway and a Norman piscina on a carved pillar.

The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron. It is the tallest windmill of this type in Sussex.

In 1882, the wealthy lord of the manor and the father of the incumbent Rector of Ashtead, Sir Thomas Lucas, donated a small iron church for the expanding population in this part of the parish.

The decorative cast iron octagonal bandstand was an original feature. It stands amidst semicircular flower beds, and forms the focal point of the gardens.

Next is the 1830s brick Foundry House, where Ward & Silver's iron foundry was established in the 1840s. Many of their cast-iron grave markers can be seen in the churchyard.

Little has changed at this junction; even the wrought iron railings on the left have avoided various wartime scrap iron drives and are still in place.

Warnham watermill is on the site of an iron furnace; it has been nicely restored to workable order. Warnham Mill Pond is a beautiful iron industry water source with a large earth dam behind the mill.

The Chequers pub (centre right) is now a private house; the next building has been demolished, but Chequers House, in the foreground, has been restored, and today sports fine wrought iron railings