Westdean, 1921

Photo ref: 71401

More about this scene

Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees. A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks. All Saints church has an uncommon half-hipped spire. An old story says that King Alfred came here to build a palace, but instead he built a shipyard on the estuary of the Cuckmere nearby. Not far away is Charleston Manor, the remains of a late 12th-century hall house. There is also a tithe barn and a dovecote still housing pigeons.

An extract from Villages of Sussex Photographic Memories.