Plan to walk Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House in 2021 and visit the four great National Trust properties that are the cornerstones of this Walk around the Weald.
Look Inside at Three Castles https://pubhtml5.com/uslz/jjqo/
Virtual Walks https://www.1066haroldsway.co.uk/virtual-walks
History Walks Talks and Books
More than just Footsteps on a Path
Plan to walk Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House in 2021 and visit the four great National Trust properties that are the cornerstones of this Walk around the Weald.
Look Inside at Three Castles
Now with 30% off until 30th November 2020
Walking the High Weald: Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House
From History Walks, Talks and Books
More than just footsteps on a Path.
For more information visit: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk
Treat Yourself in 2021
To a walk away from the hustle and bustle of the modern world with four great National Trust properties as its cornerstones, country pubs hidden away and legends galore to feed your imagination.
With no coarse gorse to scratch your legs or towering mountains to sap your strength, Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House offers step by step instructions for both the beginner and the more experienced walker to enjoy walking the High Weald.
Look Inside at Three Castles
Now with 30% off until 30th November 2020
Walking the High Weald: Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House
From History Walks, Talks and Books
More than just footsteps on a Path.
For more information visit: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk
Walking the High Weald
SMUGGLER’S GRAVE: Burwash lay on a known smugglers route from Pevensey Bay to Hawkhurst and Groombridge and Burwash was a haven for smugglers.
If caught for this capital crime, the penalty was hanging with further damnation on being refused burial in Church Consecrated Ground. The smugglers were mostly heroes with the local villagers and a compromise was reached with The Revenue that allowed them to be buried in the graveyard with their headstones carved with the skull and cross bones.
No names were allowed but the smugglers emblems are still plain to see.
Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House
From History Walks, Talks and Books
More than just footsteps on a Path.
For more information visit: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk
Walking the High Weald:
‘Mad Jack’ Fuller wasn’t mad, just a little colourful but his eccentricities and his legacies are plain for all to see. Without Mad Jack, Sussex and this walk would be poorer for it was he that saved Bodiam Castle from demolition.
Brightling really is Mad Jack Fuller’s village. he inherited the family mansion and estate in 1777, on his 20th birthday. An M.P. for East Sussex, his reputation for being outspoken and eccentric finally put him at loggerheads with the House and he stood down in 1812. His biography ‘Fuller of Sussex, A Georgian Squire’ by Geoff Hutchinson contains much more detail for those interested in Mad Jack’s life.
Although a patron of the arts and a public benefactor (he provided the Belle Tout lighthouse at East Dean) he is best known for the many follies that he built around Brightling after leaving politics.
Fuller died a bachelor in 1834 and is commemorated by a tablet on the south wall of the Nave of St Thomas a Becket Church.
Regrettably, one of Mad Jack’s less favourable actions attributed to him, or so the story goes, was to move the pub, The Green Man, ½ a mile away from the village centre to stop the Vicar’s congregation from holding their own service at a rather different altar. It later became known as Jack Fullers but subsequently closed, much to the chagrin of walkers who now have to walk to Robertsbridge to quench their thirst.
Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House
From History Walks, Talks and Books
More than just footsteps on a Path.
For more information visit: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk
TRANQUIL: The mill pond is still in the sunshine, black and languid except for a black duck, paddling ferociously to keep up on the off chance that there is some bread going – I’ll keep my sandwiches for later thank you.
Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House
From History Walks, Talks and Books
More than just footsteps on a Path.
For more information visit: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk
Walking the High Weald
Danger:
Nothing less than a flying dragon is said to haunt the pond of Angley Wood but, on certain – or uncertain – nights of the year, it wings its flight over the park and pays a visit to the big lake yonder. But he always returns to the Mill Pond and it is said to pay special attention of a vicious kind to young men and women who have jilted their lovers.
A legend with a moral is this.
But a winged dragon! A dragon of the ordinary kind is bad enough. But a flying dragon! Augh!
‘A Saunter though Kent with Pen and Pencil’:
Sir Charles Igglesden, published in 1906.
Mr Sackett Tomlin, was a tobacco importer who bought Angley Park in 1869 and demolished the mansion to build a new one ‘of no special architectural merit’ (Igglesden). On his death in 1876, the property passed to his son, Edward Locke Tomlin, who lived there until 1929 when the estate was broken up and the dragon finally flew away – or did he?
Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House
From History Walks, Talks and Books
More than just footsteps on a Path.
For more information visit: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk
Peace
A walk away from the hustle and bustle of the modern world with four great National Trust properties as its cornerstones, country pubs hidden away and legends galore to feed your imagination.
With no coarse gorse to scratch your legs or towering mountains to sap your strength, Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House offers step by step instructions for both the beginner and the more experienced walker to enjoy walking the High Weald.
From History Walks, Talks and Books
More than just footsteps on a Path.
For more information visit: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk
This talk is an engaging account of a walk between four National Trust properties; Bodiam Castle, Sissinghurst Castle, Scotney Castle and Bateman’s, that explores the history and the industrial past of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in this part of Kent and East Sussex.
And such a varied landscape brings together tales to tell of Mad Jack Fuller and Bloody Baker, Admiral ‘Foulweather Jack’ Norris, and Captain Swing. There are tales of smugglers and Mechanical riots, Napoleon’s horse, aliens in Robertsbridge and, of course, that ‘vengeful dragon’ in Angley Wood. Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House will take you on a picturesque and enjoyable tour of the High Weald – without getting mud on your boots.
From History Walks, Talks and Books – More than just footsteps on a Path.
For more information visit: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk
This talk is an engaging account of a walk between four National Trust properties; Bodiam Castle, Sissinghurst Castle, Scotney Castle and Bateman’s, that explores the history and the industrial past of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in this part of Kent and East Sussex.
And such a varied landscape brings together tales to tell of Mad Jack Fuller and Bloody Baker, Admiral ‘Foulweather Jack’ Norris, and Captain Swing. There are tales of smugglers and Mechanical riots, Napoleon’s horse, aliens in Robertsbridge and, of course, that ‘vengeful dragon’ in Angley Wood. Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House will take you on a picturesque and enjoyable tour of the High Weald – without getting mud on your boots.
From History Walks, Talks and Books – More than just footsteps on a Path.
For more information visit: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk
historywalksblog 