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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 Wealden hall house is a type of vernacular medieval timber-framed hall house traditional in the south east of England. Typically built for a yeoman , it is most common in Kent (hence "Wealden" for the once densely forested Weald ) and the east of Sussex but has also been built elsewhere. [ 1 ]
Wealden is a local government district in East Sussex, England.Its council is based in Hailsham, the district's second largest town.The district also includes the towns of Crowborough, Polegate and Uckfield, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
Weald is specifically a West Saxon form; wold is the Anglian form of the word. [1] The Middle English form of the word is wēld, and the modern spelling is a reintroduction of the Old English form attributed to its use by William Lambarde in his A Perambulation of Kent of 1576. [2]
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 ...
Ashurst Wood Village Council is the official elected body of local government representatives for the civil parish of Ashurst Wood, having changed its name from Ashurst Wood Parish Council on 1 January 2016. [21] There are nine councillors. [22] The Village Council meets ten times per year and meetings can be attended by the public. [23]
Sussex's building materials reflect its geology, consisting of flint on and near the South Downs and sandstone in the Weald. [15] Brick is used across the county, [ 15 ] with some regional variation. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Brighton and Lewes both developed black glazed bricks [ 15 ] and Worthing developed pale yellow bricks. [ 16 ]
At the height of the success of this industry, tiles and bricks from Sussex were used to build landmarks such as Manchester's G-Mex. In 2007 the local district council produced plans to close the only remaining tile works in the area and use the site for residential development. Then in 2015 the last tile works moved to a new home in Surrey.