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Whats inside this month

Welcome to the March issue.

It’s been a long winter and I’m sure we can all say we are looking forward to the beginning of spring this month.

We bring you a ‘grow your own’ feature to help with your fruit and veg plans this year.

There are various NGS gardens opening to the public, we have featured three.

Forest Row: Hugo’s Memorial

Monthly Recipe

Tunbridge Wells is the major town of the area and is rich in history, we have the first of a two part feature here.

We hope you all get an opportunity to go out and enjoy the countryside this month, especially as the weather warms up.

If you are a local charity or community group that needs help with promotion, please drop us a line.

Walk from Standen to Kingscote Bluebell Railway

Sowing the Seed

Thank you for supporting our local businesses. We really hope you have a lovely start to spring.

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Royal Tunbridge Wells

In the Wealden tradition, the evidential history of the Tunbridge Wells area reaches back to the iron age, when people carved out an existence ploughing the land and mining the iron-ore from the rich rocky sandstone outcrops. Such landscape typifies the beauty of the Weald forest ridge area in which we live– one of England’s finest.

Mid-20th century excavations by James Money at High Rocks (Tunbridge Wells) uncovered the remains of a defensive hill-fort thought to have been occupied in Roman Britain. The Wealden iron industry of 16th century fame continued into the late eighteenth century – the landscape today is still awash with evidence of the forges.

Returning to London on horseback, Lord North drank from the Chalybeate Spring to quench his thirst - chalybeate means iron-rich; the iron taste is evident in the water, it dyes everything orange too.

The history of the ‘wells of Tunbridge’ (old spelling for Tonbridge) began when, at the beginning of the 17th century, one very enthusiastic nobleman, Dudley, 3rd Baron North lauded its ‘magical’ qualities in a raving recommendation.

A courtier to James I, Lord North had spent several days ‘recuperating’ at the Abergavenny Estate, Eridge, which happened to include gluttonous merriment of much rich food and wine.

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He noticed the reddish-brown hue waters of the spring foaming slightly from the ground and took his chances.

Feeling greatly refreshed and instantly ‘clearing his head’ he continued on his journey to the London court.

Since that moment of inception, the wells continued to be known (second only to the Spa town of Bath), as the great place of English ‘water healing’ and drew the infirm, diseased and the curious.

Thirty years after its discovery, the first buildings were erected: two small cottages, one for ladies and the other for gentlemen, set up as a coffee and pipe-smoking rest stop.

Its rooted and unequivocal connection to royalty occurred when Charles I’s physician, sent his wife, Henrietta Maria, to the springs to “re-establish her health” after the birth of Prince Charles in 1630. She remained there for a full

six weeks. Soon after this prestigious visit, the area was renamed Queen Mary’s Wells – it didn’t stick and other names followed afterwards, including Frant Wells.

Well into the 17th century the area came to have access to an assembly-room, a bowling green, in nearby Rusthall.

At Southborough there was a bowling green, a coffeehouse, and a great number of lodgings. The advantages and diversions of the area increased but the distance to such nearby towns was inconvenient, especially in inclement weather when the route of escape to shelter, all became too much.

The terrain of the (now) town is fairly hilly and was not conducive to widescale building. However, ‘Mount Sion’ the first to be built upon, as houses were transported and rebuilt on the hill. A chapel was soon established so people could attend religious duties, and shortly followed by taking in the various amusements at thereabouts.

The connection to royalty continued with the appearance of a Danish princess and later Queen Anne brought her 9-year-old son Prince William, Duke of Gloucester. The prince fell on a slippery slope, so, the queen provided money to pave the walks.

Henrietta Maria painted by Sir Peter Lely after the restoration of her son Charles II to the throne.

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In 1739, Frederick, Prince of Wales and his wife, Princess Augusta of SaxeGotha, appeared in the now established spa town. The second daughter of King George II visited in 1762 and the Duke of York and the Duke of Gloucester in 1765 who were welcomed with a triple discharge of eighteen pieces of cannon.

An eighteenth-century guide book described it thus: “The place itself is now in a very flourishing state, with a great number of good houses for lodgings, and all necessary accommodations for company; its customs are settled, its pleasure regulated, its markets and all other conveniences fixed, and the whole very properly adapted to the nature of a place, which is at once designed to give health and pleasure to all its visitants.”

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Answers on page 26 1. What did the Romans call Scotland?

11. How was New York known prior to 1664?

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13. What was the old name for a Snickers bar before it changed in 1990?

3. Since 1977, where has snooker's World Championship taken place?

4. Which nuts are used in marzipan?

14. Which legendary surrealist artist is famous for painting melting clocks?

5. What is the chemical formula for Table Salt?

15. What is the smallest planet in our solar system?

6. What was Britney Spears’ first single called?

16. Which comedian was the second permanent host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks after Mark Lamarr?

7. Who is the only musician ever to have been awarded the Nobel prize for literature?

17. In what US State is the city Nashville?

8. Which city is further east, Edinburgh or Carlisle?

18. Which of the following empires had no written language: Incan, Aztec, Egyptian, Roman?

9. Which two of Henry VIII’s wives were executed?

19. What country has the most islands in the world?

10. How many children did Queen Victoria have?

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Crowborough charity hits new record for Covid Emergency Fund World in Need (WIN) is a passionate team of local part-time paid staff and volunteers who serve the needs of 13 centres in 10 countries in Africa and Asia.

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“We’re overwhelmed by public response to the needs of our centres, who are all in desperate situations as a result of covid,” says CEO Rob Holmes. “We impact the lives of thousands of children and families in the most desperate of situations every month and it’s absolutely amazing and all down to the good hearts of local people, that in just a few months we’ve already raised over £45,000. And the number keeps rising. We really can’t thank donors enough, and we’re very optimistic about hitting targets and helping even more communities in need.”

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Nearly 2 years down the line, we have good news and bad about the progress of Hugo’s memorial.

To start with the good news - we officially have planning permission! It's been a long and expensive journey to get there, but we finally have it.

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The original skate park building firm who quoted £30K (which we managed to raise) are no longer able to be involved. This has been a huge blow at the 11th hour, to put it lightly.

The company who we are now speaking to have crunched the numbers, and are saying that in order to build the design we have, it'll be more like £50K. Which leaves us £20K short. And trying to set about raising a sum of money like that during a global pandemic/recession, is no mean feat.

We are exploring potential grants (lottery, etc.), but have already had a couple of applications declined as certain grants are now being allocated to Covid-related efforts.

The company we are speaking to have said that they could build a pretty small extension for the £30K that we have, but it would be disappointing (for everyone concerned) for it not to be the very best extension that it can be. The more expensive quote includes full repairs and resurfacing of the existing park, which would mean a clean, fresh slate and an exciting new space to enjoy.

It's a tough one. We are down, but not defeated. We’re determined to build Hugo's memorial, but also to extend and expand this wonderful amenity in our village, that will benefit so many people for generations to come.

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Time 3 hours • Distance 6 miles (9.6 km) • Map Explorer 135 • Dog friendly Standen car park, grid ref: TQ391356 1. Leave the car park and walk up the hill towards the house. At the top turn left and walk along the path with the Kitchen Garden on your left and Goose Green on the right. Continue ahead on the mettled and grass path through the rhododendrons, and woodland until you reach a second wooden gate (do not turn into Hollybush Wood) into a field.

2. Go through the gate and bear left to follow the path along the edge of a small wood, with a barbed wire fence to your left. Ignore the first stile and continue downhill. Go through the metal gate at the edge of the wood, turn left and follow the path downhill towards the reservoir. Go over a stile. At the next finger post turn right to follow the High Weald Landscape Trail. Continue along the right-hand edge of the field to a metal gate in the bottom corner.

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3. Here the High Weald Landscape Trail joins the Sussex Border Path. Go through a gate and turn right and continue along this path, with the reservoir and chain-link fence on your left until you meet a tarred lane.

4. This is the old road which was submerged by the water, and blocked by a padlocked double iron gate. Turn right at this gate uphill for a few hundred yards, as it turns left and levels off. Turn right at the junction with the road

(Please take care here as visibility is poor).

5. Walk 50 yards uphill to the finger post opposite the entrance to Stone Hill House, cross the road.

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2 4 WALK FROM STANDEN TO KINGSCOTE BLUEBELL RAILWAY CONTINUED Cross the bridge and turn left in front of a pylon to follow a track to a finger post at the entrance of a wood. You are still following the High Weald Landscape Trail. Follow the path through the woods, cross the stile and climb a steep bank to cross the Bluebell railway line.

Go down the steep bank on the other side and cross a waymarked stile into a wood.

7. Follow the path through the wood to emerge onto a tarred lane. Turn right (ignoring the path to the right) for about 500yd (450m) to a large wooden gate and stile.

Mill Place The name Mill Place was first noted in 1547. It was part of Lewes Priory’s manor of Imberhorne from the early 12th century but later became independent of it. A water powered iron furnace was working here in the 16th and 17th centuries. The core of the building dates from the late 14th century, with 16th century and Victorian additions. It is grade II listed.

8. Go through the gate or over the stile and continue straight ahead along the lane. Just past Brookbank and Holly Tree Cottages on the right. The lane swings around to the left and you can see the railway line again.

Where the lane joins from the left continue straight ahead. The lane goes under the overhead lines, between hedgerows and through a wood. The wood on your right opens out onto a large field, with two large white houses in the bottom right-hand corner. Continue for about 100yd (90m) downhill and look for a gap in the righthand hedge with a finger post. Go through the gap and follow around the edge of the field towards the houses, keeping the woodland on your left.

9. At the end of the field turn left onto a track and follow uphill, through a metal gate onto Vowels Lane. Kingscote Station, part of the Bluebell railway line, is immediately to your right.

10. After visiting Kingscote Station, retrace your steps. Go left down the private road. just before the large white house (Bluebell Cottage) go right along the right-hand

field edge. At the lane, turn left. Where the path forks, go straight ahead (signs to Mill Place Farm) passed Brooksbank cottage and Holly Tree cottage on your left. Before the gate turn left down the lane to Mill Place Farm.

11. Go under the railway bridge and continue ahead along the track through the farm buildings and past a pond on your left.

Continue until you reach a brick bridge. Go over the bridge and follow the track around to your right past another pond on your left. Keep ahead following the fence and hedge on your left and a stream on your right. Continue up the sunken track around the left-hand edge of the field, following the line of finger posts, to the top of the field. Continue past the rocks on the right and retrace your steps to the road. Take care here. Turn right and go downhill to rejoin the lane on the left which takes you back to the Sussex Border Path along the northern perimeter of Weir Wood reservoir.

Follow the border path past two memorial benches until you reach the metal gate in the corner of the field where you joined the path originally. Cross the stile and head up the hill following the High Weald Landscape Trail, under the power lines, keeping the hedgerow and fence to your right. Go through the metal gate at the top of the field through the bracken, continuing to keep the fence and hedgerow on your right.

At the fingerpost, continue uphill and follow the sunken path along the edge of the wood. After emerging from the wood, there is a gate on your right you can use this to retrace your path to Standen, Goose Green and the house, or continue up the hill, following the right-hand edge of the field, to the top corner.

12. Go through the metal gate at the top of the field, and follow the path right between the woodland and barbed-wire fence (on your left) until you reach the main drive to Standen. At the drive turn right, past Standen cottages and continue to the main entrance to Standen and the car park.

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Nestled in a hidden valley, Ightham Mote, is at the centre of a sequence of water features of medieval origin. The intimate scale, through mist or with the sun glittering on the moat, creates a fairy-tale picture of England past and present, for all to enjoy and relax in.

Open twice for NGS: daffodils in spring and late summer/early autumn colour.

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by William Pye. Gardens of interest include a small shady glade, small knot garden, canal garden and orchard planted with crinums, and folly garden enclosing a classical temple.

Stonewall Park Chiddingstone Hoath, nr Edenbridge Even from the driveway you can see a vast number of self-seeded daffodils, leading down to a romantic woodland garden in historic setting, featuring species such as rhododendrons, magnolias, azaleas and bluebells. See them in full flower on our May opening day. There is also a range of interesting trees, sandstone outcrops, wandering paths and lakes.

Sunday 14th March 2pm - 5pm Sunday 2nd May 2pm – 5pm Online pre-booking only. Home-made teas in the conservatory. Adult: £6, Child: free

Postcode: TN22 3ST, online pre-booking only.

Sunday 25th April 2pm - 5:30pm Monday 7th June 2pm - 5:30pm Refreshments: Home-made teas.

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GIVE YOUR GARDEN AN EXTRA BOOST Produced locally in Sussex, KPS make organic fine compost and blended top soil from recycled green waste MADE TO BRITISH STANDARDS SOLD IN CUBIC METER BAGS OR LOOSE LOADS DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR

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