Route - 05/01/09
1st Walk in 2009 at West Itchenor
Butcher's Broom
A freezing day
Gorse in Flower
Rookswood House
Alder catkins
Brent Geese
Frozen Sea
West Wittering Church
St Peter's and St Paul's Church West Wittering
Late Saxon Font
Rock steady seat!
He died here on 22nd April 1933
Elmstead House home of Henry Royce
Who's henpecked?
Old Wesleyan Chapel now a private house.
Notice outside Redlands Farm
Itchenor Village Pond
St Nicholas Church Itchenor
13thC Font
Route - 19/01/09
The Washington Giraffe! 19/01/09
A Cold Day
Looking at the Giraffe
Heading for Chanctonbury
Angry clouds over Cissbury & Worthing
Water swept path above Steyning
What's keeping you?
Chanctonbury Ring
Water water everywhere!
A large Holm Oak (Holly Oak)
No way round!
Wiston House built in 1573
Bridge to connect the land to Wiston House
Who said McDonalds?
Walkies!
A lovely Newfoundland Dog
Short steep route or the gentler longer route?
1987 Storm damage
A Tiled Path!
Route - 16/02/09
Walking up from West Stoke on 16/02/09
Wood Carving called 'The Spirit of Kingley Vale‘ by Walter Bailey
The Visitor Centre
Descending towards Stoughton
Memorial to a Polish Airman.
Stoughton
St Mary's Stoughton 11thC
17thC Porch
12thC Font
Bell Tower 14thC
Pevsner's Sussex
Beautiful Hassocks
Needlepoint panels
The Last Supper
Vicers of Stoughton
14thC Barrel Roof
Tower added in the 14thC
Delivery Box for the Village's Newspapers
Edward Vll Post Box
Lunch Stop
Who's been rolling in something?
Long Barrow on Stoughton Down
'The Devil's Humps'
Admiring The View
Spraying the Fields
Inside the Yew Forrest
Kingley Vale
Keeping the dog on a lead!
Route - 16/03/09
1st Snowdrops!
Avoiding the Mud
Lesser Celandine
Church Farm Binstead
Church of St Mary Binstead
Church of St Mary Binstead 12thC
On Reflection it is Chris
Mosaic in front of the Alter
The Organ
Gorse in flower
Lunch Break
Manor Farm Tortington
Out of Petrol
Church of St Mary Magdalene Tortington 12thC
Oak Pew 15thC
Oak Pulpit 17thC - Made Locally
Original Timber Roof
Great Norman Chancel Arch - Caen Stone
Roger Gratwyk built Tortington Place
Norman Font
Tortington House
Tortington House - Originally a small Manor House then a school and now Private Flats.
Priory Farm
Arundel from Tortington
Looking towards Arundel Bridge
Mandarin Duck
Route - 30/03/09
A Des Res
How Much? - How Much!!
Are you sitting comfortably?
Salterns Lock
Low Tide
Chichester Marina
Harbour Entrance
Trouble with the Zip!
Pub at Dell Quay
River Lavant
On Guard
Chichester Canal Basin
Trouble with the Laces!
If only I could Swim
Turner's View!
Dwarf's View
Menage a Trois
Where The Selsey Tramway crossed the Canal
Coot on Nest
Site of Cutfield Swing Bridge
Route - 13/04/09
Clapham Village
East Lodge - Castle Goring
Castle Goring Mews
The Hermitage - Castle Goring
Walled Garden - Cast;e Goring
The Trout - Goring
Hightiten Barn 18C
Lunch Time in Highdown Garden
Hellebores
Rare Edward V11 Post Box
Miller's Grave
Gorse
Patching
Wood Anemone
Church of St John the Divine - Patching 13C
Font 15C
Victorian Pulpit
Millennium Parish Map
Black Patch Hill
Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Clapham 13C
Font early 19C
William Morris Tiles
Brass dated 1526
Tomb of Sir William Shelley d1548
Route - 08/06/09
Poppy Field
Cookes House West Burton
Gravestone near Southview Farm, Bury
The Black Dog & Duck, Bury
St John the Evangelist, Bury
New roof for the tower
High tide at Amberley
Common Valerian
Cat & Mouse in thatch
Route - 22/06/09
Scrumpin Peas
St Nicholas Church - West Itchenor
Reading the notice
Albert having a pea
Yellow Lupins as a crop for cattle feed
Church of St Peter and St Paul - West Wittering
Relaxing after lunch
His eyes are closed!
Late saxon Font
Sea Heath
Sea Lavender
Marram Grass
Marram Grass planted to consolidate the Head
Kestral
Poodle/Labrador crossbreed
Route - 06/07/09
Benbow Pond
A Passing Shower (Rain not the Group)
Spindle Berries
Sweet Chesnut Blossom
Lodsworth House - Lodsworth is a parish, south-east of Haslemere, famous for the production of cider from its apple and cherry orchards, and for making bricks from the Weald Clay. St. Peter’s Church, built around 1230, possesses the oldest silver chalice in the Midhurst Deanery, the Lodsworth Cup, dating from 1567. Lodsworth was famous for its quern stones quarry when Lodsworth rock was used to grind corn to flour.
Woodmancote - Lodsworth
The Old Nursery - Lodsworth
Tudor Cottage - Lodsworth
Who forgot to add the 'er'? - Lodsworth the local public house, The Hollist Arms, dates from the 15th century when it was known as the Crown Mants, subsequently Poyntz Arms (the general court baron was W.S. Poyntz), until Hasler Hollist, a local dignitary, took over in 1838.
Viking Farm
An Ancient Sweet Chesnut Tree
Cowdray Park Golf Course
Three Ancient Trees
Queen Elizabeth Oak - Cowdray Park Queen Elizabeth I (Queen Bess) sheltered under this tree on a visit to Midhurst in 1591 on the Cowdray Estate at Easebourne, north of Midhurst. The major trees in this area have remained virtually untouched since 1532 when the first 600 acres of Cowdray Park were enclosed. It is estimated that its age is from 800 to 1000 years old. With a girth of 41 feet it has over time been hollowed out and can accomodate several people.
Giant Sweet Chesnut with a girth of 38 feet just to the north of the Elizabethan Oak
Steward's Pond
Route - 20/07/09
Cottage at Botolphs
Self Service
A Large Field of Ragwort
Winding Bottom
Burdock
View from Round Hill
Steyning from Round Hill
Whitebeam
Common St John's-Wort
Old Chalk Quarry
Gatekeeper Butterfly
Lords & Ladies or Cuckoo-Pint (Fruit- Poisonous)
More Self Service
Steyning
Clock Tower above the Old Market House, a building that served that purpose when the market was held in the High Street but which has since had many uses. In 1655 George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, addressed a Quaker meeting there. For a while it was the Town Hall, later the Police Station and then the Fire Station. The old Fire Bell notice is still preserved on the wall. The clock itself was given to Steyning in 1860 by the Duke of Norfolk on the demolition of his country mansion at Michelgrove near Arundel.
The Chequer Inn was an important posting stop on the London South coast run and in the late 18th C hid its mediaeval timber with a brick façade to provide a more attractive frontage for its fashionable travelling trade. The fine wrought iron bracket and sign made by Sussex craftsmen is a great feature of the High Street.
Mounting Block by Carriage Entrance
At the junction with High Street are some oak posts and rails which mark the place where cattle were once tied during market days. Opposite are three cottages, part of a mediaeval “Wealden”, a hall house with two storey end sections and a distinctive elevation with large curved braces in the centre to partly support the roof.
Though the interior has been greatly enlarged with modern additions, the façade remains unaltered and continues to form part of today’s Steyning Grammar School.
The original Brotherhood hall was the original schoolroom and it still retains its open timbered roof with king-post .One famous old boy was Dr John Pell, a renowned mathematician who gave us the sign for division.
Over the road is the charming timber framed Saxon Cottage. The name belies its true date of origin, which is more probably early 16th century. It is constructed entirely without nails with a thickly thatched roof and a steep cat slide almost to the ground.
The Magnificent 12th century St Andrews Church, where King Ethelwulf’s remains were originally buried. The church is believed to stand on the site of a wooden church, that of St Cuthman, built sometime in the early 9th C.
Statue of St Cuthman
I Wonder what he's thinking?
Coffin Lid Of King Ethelwulf?
Original Oak Door
Original Norman Font of Sussex Marble
Elizabethan carved Oak Screen
Legend of St Cuthman - Putting his mother in the barrow along with their few belongings, he pushed it day after day across the breadth of England until he came to Steyning in West Sussex. There the rope which held the barrow broke, and this he took for a sign that it was here where he must settle.
A283 Steyning Bypass - former Railway line axed by Beeching
Bramber Church
Bramber castle whose name is taken from the Saxon 'Brymmburh' meaing fortified place, was built shortly after the Conquest by William de Braose to guard the then sizable port on the river Adur. Little remains of the castle except one wall of the keep about 75 feet high (24 m)
The castle church (dedicated to St Nicholas) still stands. Originally built as the castle chapel, this is now the parish church of Bramber, and is the only part of the Bramber Castle site not in ruins.
Cottage in Bramber
Victorian Garden at St Mary's House
St Mary's House, a late 15th century timber-framed house on a site associated with the Knights Templar, which was a monastic hostel for pilgrims and for monks who collected the tolls at Bramber bridge, a 170-foot (52 m) long bridge over the River Adur, incorporating a Chapel (dedicated to St Mary the Virgin) on its central span, though now reduced to a flat bridge of just a few feet over a tributary of the river, following silting, and a change of course.
Side view of St Mary's House
Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar
Teasels
Rosebay Willowherb
