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The Weald was not the only area of Sussex that was forested in Saxon times: for example at the western end of Sussex is the Manhood Peninsula, which these days is largely deforested. The name is probably derived from the Old English maene-wudu meaning "men's wood" or "common wood" indicating that it was once woodland.
The Weald School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form. [1] It caters for around 1,700 pupils in years 7 to 13, including over 300 in its sixth form . The school opened in 1956, and celebrated its 60th anniversary in the academic year 2016-17.
Rudyard Kipling also wrote two Sussex stories involving fairies, Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) and Rewards and Fairies (1910) setting them in the Sussex Weald. Harrow Hill near Worthing is the site of a small hillfort and some Neolithic flint mines. According to an old woman who lived on Lee Farm, the hill was the last home of the fairies in England.
Cotchford Farm is a farmhouse building to the southwest of the village of Hartfield, East Sussex, in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in southern England. Its owners have included author A. A. Milne , who wrote all of his Winnie-the-Pooh books at the house, often inspired by the local landscape, and musician Brian Jones , who ...
The Weald and Downland Living Museum (known as the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum until January 2017) is an open-air museum in Singleton, West Sussex. The museum is a registered charity . [ 1 ] The museum covers 40 acres (16 ha), with over 50 historic buildings dating from 950AD to the 19th century, along with gardens, farm animals, walks ...
(Richard Lyvet of Firle was lord of the manor of Catsfield in 1431.) With a fortune built on ancestral landholdings and later on iron making, the Levetts held land across Sussex. The parish church is dedicated to St Laurence. [3] Catsfield is located in the Sussex Weald within the designated landscape the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural ...
Crowborough is a town and civil parish in East Sussex, England, in the Weald at the edge of Ashdown Forest and the highest town in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is located 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Royal Tunbridge Wells and 33 miles (53 km) south of London .
Examples are the "Bayleaf farmhouse" from Chiddingstone, relocated in 1968–69 to the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum.[4] the Yeoman's House in Bignor, the Anne of Cleves House in Lewes, the Alfriston Clergy House, the Plough at Stalisfield Green, the Old Punch Bowl [5] and the Ancient Priors [6] at Crawley, the Pattyndenne Manor in Kent and the Monks' Barn in Newport, Essex, Hole Cottage ...