SEAWARD SUSSEX

THE SOUTH DOWNS FROM END TO END

By

EDRIC HOLMES

One hundred illustrations by
MARY M. VIGERS

Maps and Plans by the Author

London:
Robert Scott Roxburghe House
Paternoster Row, E.C.

MCMXX

"How shall I tell you of the freedom of the Downs—
You who love the dusty life and durance of great towns,
And think the only flowers that please embroider ladies' gowns—
How shall I tell you ..."

Edward Wyndham Tempest.

Every writer on Sussex must be indebted more or less to the researches and to the archaeological knowledge of the first serious historian of the county, M.A. Lower. I tender to his memory and also to his successors, who have been at one time or another the good companions of the way, my grateful thanks for what they have taught me of things beautiful and precious in Seaward Sussex.

E.H.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER

1. LEWES
2. TO EASTBOURNE AND PEVENSEY
3. SHAFORD TO BRIGHTON
4. BRIGHTON
5. SHOREHAM AND WORTHING
6. ARUNDEL AND THE ARUN
7. THE VALLEY OF THE ROTHER
8. GOODWOOD AND BOGNOR
9. CHICHESTER
10. SELSEY AND BOSHAM

APPENDIX—

THE SUSSEX DOWNS FROM END TO END.

LONDON TO THE SOUTH DOWNS. THE WEALD.

RAILWAY ROUTES.

INDEX

The traveller through Sussex, as through every other English shire, will find many reminders of the Great War in church, churchyard or village green. Some are imposing or beautiful, some, alas, are neither, or are out of keeping with the quiet peace of their surroundings. To mention any, however striking in themselves or interesting in their connexion, would be invidious as, at the time of writing, lack of labour or material has prevented the completion of a great number of them.

The local historian of the future will bring a woeful number of his family records to a final close with the brief but glorious inscription on the common tablet where plough-boy and earl's son are commemorated side by side.

The sketch maps accompanying this book are simply for convenience in identifying the route followed therein. Wanderers upon the Downs and in the highways and byways at their feet will find Bartholomew's "half-inch" map, sheet 32, the most useful. This scale is much to be preferred to the "one inch" parent which lacks the contour colouring.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• Hurstmonceux Frontispiece
• Near Alciston
• Market Cross, Alfriston
• A Sussex Lane, Jevington
• Willingdon
• Lamb Inn, Eastbourne
• Wannock
• Old House, Petworth
• The Barbican, Lewes Castle
• St. Anne's Church, Lewes
• The Priory Ruins, Lewes
• Anne of Cleves House, Southover
• The Grange, Southover
• Cliffe
• Firle Beacon
• Alfriston Church
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