A Walk Around Thorney Island - 04/01/10
A Walk Around Thorney Island - Profile
Low Tide
Alpacas
Walking the Plank
St Nicholas Church (12C)
Military Cemetery
Early Font
Modern Pulpit Faced wiyh Slate
Old Door
Sundial showing service times
Really!
Bouys being serviced & cleaned
A Frosty Day
One of the runways
A difficult bit
Memorial Seat
High Tide
Checkpoint at exit
We watch the bird watchers
Reeds for thatch
Emsworth
The end
Chanctonbury Ring - 18/01/10
Chanctonbury Ring - Profile
Starting Off
Taste of things to come
Findon
Mind the Ice!
A steep bit of up
Sun trying to shine
Where's the path?
Dodging the puddles
Negotiating a cattle grid
Are we lost?
Where's the crampons?
Chanctonbury looming out of the fog
Suddenly it cleared!
Leaving Chanctonbury
Galloping down the last furlong
West Dean - 01/02/10
West Dean - Profile
River Lavant at West Dean
And Again
Air Temperature was about 3ºC
No Overtaking Please
A Nice Sheltered Valley
A Steep bit of Up
A Charolais Bull
Old Man's Beard in Profusion
Lunch Stop
Charging Down to Meet Us
Are you Following Me?
Looking towards Kingley Vale
Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG)
BINDERTON This small parish of 1,790 acres has been annexed to that of West Dean under the West Sussex Review Order of 1933. Binderton House is the only building of interest in the parish, which has no village. It was erected in 1677 but remodelled about 1780. More recently the long south wing was destroyed by fire. The plan is peculiar and rather pretentious for a house of this size. It consists of a middle main block, facing east and west, and of two stories and attics, flanked on its western half by exceptionally long low two-storied ranges, each more than half as long again as the main block and with fairly long wings projecting at right angles to the east at the outer ends.
The Centurion Way, which starts by Biderton House, was once the Chichester to Midhurst Railway line. The section between Lavant and Chichester was used for the transportation of sugar beet and was closed completely in 1957. The tracks were removed in 1993. The name Centurion Way was suggested by a local schoolboy and is based on the fact that the path crosses the course of a Roman road. The easy access trail (1.5km) runs from Chichester to West Dean Estate and is available for cyclists and walkers to use. The easy access trail runs on a section of the Way, close to West Dean. Much of the route follows the River Lavant which is a winterbourne, only becoming a permanent feature to the south of the village of West Dean, the rest being restricted to the wetter months.
The River Lavant Again
Railway Bridge over the Midhurst - Chichester Line one of the Beeching Cuts!
The Lavant Valley
The Rubbing House, Where horses were 'rubbed down' after exercise.
Nearly back - cleaning off the mud!
The Car Park
Burpham to the SDW - 15/02/10
Burpham to the SDW - Profile
A plough tip ripped off by the flints
We looked a miserable bunch at lunch
He obviously had a good send off leaving the behind empty containers
Mr Mole had been busy
Burton Park & Duncton - 01/03/10
Burton Park & Duncton - Profile
St Richard's Church 11C
Wall painting of Arms of Charles I
Original Font
15C Screen
Tomb of Sir William and Lady Elizabeth Goring
Tomb of Lady in Chancel
Victorian Pedal Organ
Wall Painting of a Young Female Martyr Inverted on a Saltire Cross
The Smallest Sussex Church
Burton House Grade I Listed Building
Duncton Church
Burton Park is believed to owe its origin to Sir William Dawtrey who held land known as Bodeketun in 1242. The property descended to Sir Edward St John of Barlavington and then to John Goring (d 1520), whose family probably built the first house on the site. The last member of the Goring family, Sir William, died in 1724 and, his sister having married Richard Biddulph of Staffordshire, Burton Park passed to that family, Richard Biddulph building a new house on the site. His nephew, John Biddulph, succeeded and in c 1828, following its partial destruction by fire, rebuilt its house to its present form and laid out pleasure grounds to its south and west. In 1835 the estate passed to Anthony Wright-Biddulph and in 1894 was bought by Sir Douglas Hall who further developed the gardens (Ford 1995) before selling in 1919 to Major and Mrs Courtlauld. They added new formal features to the gardens. The house and park were requisitioned for wartime use by the army and in 1945-6 the house, gardens
Duncton Mill
An Optional Lunch Stop
Westerlands Farm
Yellow Lichen
Geese 'On Guard'
New Stable Block
Old Sweet (Spanish) Chestnut Tree
Burton Mill Pond
Burton Mill
Burpham & Barpham - Route 15/03/10
Burpham & Barpham - Profile
Floods at Burpham
A steep bit of ascent
Arundel Castle
Jack's Gibbet the full story is at - http://www.findonvillage.com/0143_findons_mounted_postboy.htm
Silver Birch
Upper Barpham Farm
'Donkey' on Tudor Barn Roof
Site of Upper Barpham Church, more details at - http://barpham.inthepast.org.uk/barpham_church_scm.htm
Lower Barpham Village, more details at - http://barpham.inthepast.org.uk/ex_angmering.htm OR http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/history/articles/barpham.htm
First there were three
Then there were many
Nearly Home
Menu at the George & Dragon
An Airstrip & the Thynne Burial Ground - Route 29/03/10
An Airstrip & The Thynne Burial Ground - Profile
St Mary's Church - Washington
Negotiating an Obstacle
A Muddy Climb
Sullington Hill
Keep Up at the Back!
The Thynne Burial Ground in Muntham Clump - which is consecrated ground
Two Lutyens designed Gravestones
Entry to the burial ground is through a bank, which supported an Iron Age Timber Temple dating from 1st - 3rd C AD. Note Cissbury in the ditance.
Graves of some of the people who worked for the family
This large cross from the original grave of Thomas Thynne in the churchyard at Findon, now stands as a centre piece of the Thynne Burial Mound.
Lunch on the gravestones - Note Chanctonbury in the distance
Farm Parking Lot
Part of the airstrip that was once used by Brian Thynne
Part of Windelsham House School
The Old Stables
Vandals or is just the anti Daffodil Brigade
Shame the mattress dumpers could not read
The Washington Giraffe
Washington Lime Kilns
Along the Arun to Arundel - Route 12/04/10
Along the Arun to Arundel - Profile
Bluebell Walk & The Long Furlong - Route 26/04/10
Bluebell Walk & The Long Furlong - Profile
Hilaire Belloc & Shipley Windmill - 10/05/10
Hilaire Belloc & Shipley Windmill - Profile
Early Purple Orchids
Early Purple Orchid
Fallow Deer
Knepp Castle (1812) but partially rebuilt after 1904 fire
Exmoor Ponies
Knepp Castle Ruins
'White' Bluebells
Timothy Grass
Ramsons or Wild Garlic
Cherry Blossom
Late Medieval Porch of St George West Grinstead
Two Oak Parish Chests - Top one 14thC & Bottom one 18thC
The Powlett Monument by Rysbrack (1693 - 1770)
Tomb slab of Sussex Marble with brass of Philippa Halsham
Brass of Sir Hugh Halsham & his wife
Local Farmers Oak Pews 16thC & 17thC
Saxon Herringbone Stone work
Saxon Parish Church of St George - West Grinstead
Ancient path from Butcher's Row to the church
Dial Post
Ground disturbed by Wild Boar
Shipley Windmill
St Mary the Virgin Shipley 12thC
14thC Porch
Shipley Windmill built 1879
Hilaire Belloc bought King's Land for £900 in 1906 and stayed there until his death in 1953
AROUND KINGLEY VALE - Route 24/05/10
AROUND KINGLEY VALE - Profile
Whitebeam Tree
Whitebeam Flower
Rock Hard Seat
Stoughton
Some of our 'hounds' are missing!
Judas Tree
The Long Climb
Nearly at the top
On top at last!
Some likely 'Devils' on the Humps!
View down Kingley Vale
The Tansley Stone
All the different 'Greens'
View up Kingley Vale
CHANTRY POST & BLACKPATCH HILL - Route 07/06/10
CHANTRY POST & BLACKPATCH HILL - Profile
The old Marley Tiles Sandpit at Sullington
Follow the White Brick Road!
Disused pit on Harrow Hill
Climbing Harrow Hill
Site of Lower Barpham below our lunchstop on the 15th March
A nice crop of Elderberry Flowers
Being 'sheepish'
Myrtle Grove Farm
Blackpatch Hill
A Walk Around Chichester Harbour - Route 21/06/10
A Walk Around Chichester Harbour - Profile
Salterns Lock
Spraying Potatoes
Escallonia Hedge
Flax or Linseed
Waving Goodbye to the leader
Dog Rose with Cardinal Beetle
What's that Tune?
Goldfinch on Oilseed Rape
Church Farm at Bosham Hoe
Chichester Cathedral
Queen of the stump
Probably Peacock Butterfly Caterpillars
Recently made Otter Footprints
Fishbourne Village
Scotch Thistle
Passing Dell Quay
Coming Ashore
Cleaning Up The 'Lucky' Leader
