Ashdown Forest Living June issue

June 2015

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The Annual Ashurst Raft Race LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY & COMMUNITY NEWS Beer this in Mind Ashdown Forest Plant and Food Festival Call 01342 300152 to advertise The West Hoathly Country Show SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES The History of Gravetye Manor

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Index:

Dear Residents,

This month we have a fantastic article about the history of the beautiful Gravetye Manor, nestled to the north of the forest.

The gardens are particularly of interest as they were the stage of the work of world renowned Victorian gardener William Robinson.

The Annual Ashurst Raft Race returns again this year, find out more about this hugely fun event, see page 6.

With Spring in full swing and the sun shining (fingers crossed) we hope all your home and garden improvements are going to plan. We can help you with our many local businesses offering their services.

Please get in touch if you’re a local community group or charity and you need extra promotion.

Thank you for supporting our local businesses.

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Ashdown Forest Plant and Food Festival 24 Gardening in Spring

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CHILDREN/EDUCATION

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The Annual Ashurst Raft Race returns 1pm Sunday 7th June 2015

The famous Ashurst Raft Race takes place on Sunday 7th June. This traditional fun and ‘sporting’ family day was revived last year and coincided with a blazing hot sunny June day.

Hundreds of happy spectators, many of whom first attended as youngsters, returned with their own children to enjoy a great family day out.

In the early 70’s Ashurst & Blackham Sports Association decided to build a new pavilion built with money borrowed from local families to replace the old wooden cricket pavilion. The raft race event was ‘launched’ to raise funds to repay these loans.

In 2006, the field with pavilion was sold. The cricket team had disbanded through lack of playing members and the successful football team could not alone afford the ground maintenance costs and moved away. For 5 years the gates were locked and

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no sport took place in our twin villages of Ashurst and Blackham.

The ground came back to auction in 2011 and we regained possession of our ground. The purchase price was raised entirely by voluntary contributions from local residents helped by a substantial donation from the Ashurst McDermott Village Hall Trust.

We are once more raising funds, this time towards a traditional oak framed building that will blend in well with our lovely location besides the River Medway.

This new building will provide a games room for our successful Youth Club and also be headquarters for the Junior football teams. Sport England is providing a grant towards this very worthwhile youth project.

We look forward to another great family day out and hope you can join us. Enter your dog into the dog show, meet the donkeys, bounce on the bouncy castle, play beat the goalie. Browse the book and bric a brac stalls, see the model airplanes and classic cars and throw flour bombs at the rafts to speed them on their way! There is £50 to win if you buy the nearest £1 square to where the Willets Farm ice cream ‘cow pats’ in a measured roped off area on the day.

From 1 pm onwards the beer shack and Pimms tent will be open and the BBQ will be serving pulled-pork, hot dogs and burgers. See you there!

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Beer this in Mind surplus for extra money. Later the practise of beer making was dominated by the church, mainly, the Catholic Church.

Gruit was primarily a combination of three herbs: Sweet gale (Myrica gale), Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), and Marsh rosemary (Ledum palustre).

Although other plants were used or sometimes solely one of the above, gruit was primarily made from those three plants. In fact, for at least 60,000 years, ancient and indigenous cultures throughout the world used these herbs as medicine and also as mild inebriants and sexual stimulants. So where did the use hops originate from and how did it come to dominate beer making?

Throughout history there has always been a fine line in the distinction of food or medicine. In fact, historically, more often than not there can be no distinction at all. The administration of herbal medicine in traditional cultures was not always in the form of a tea or infusion. Ancient recipes contained many foraged plants, that when processed in combination had an effect that was more than the sum of its parts. These recipes for decoctions and food were developed over millennia and so did the recipes for fermenting herbs with sugar into an alcoholic beverage. First man discovered fermented honey (mead), and then he learnt to make beer.

Every ancient culture had their own type of beer, which unbelievably, more often than not were considered to be sacred drinks! The source of sugar and the plants are as varied as the drinks themselves.

The origins of beer and ale are rooted in very ancient cultures, as far back and even further than the Ancient Egyptians. The difference between our ancestors beers and the modern beers we drink today is the herbs which are added to give beer its bitter taste. Ancient beers were known in Europe as gruit. Gruits did not contain hops. Amazingly enough as history goes, hops is a very modern addition to the beer making process. In fact, it only gained dominance in about 1750 AD. The beers of old were mainly made by women and the herbal plants were foraged and gathered locally.

Beer and foraging were as intertwined as spring and blossoms. Before the industrial revolution, beer making was a small scale, cottage practise.

Households would make their own and sell a small

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Hops was already known and used in herbal medicine for its sedative and antibacterial properties. In fact it was believed, that if you couldn’t sleep at night, placing hops under your pillow would assist in combating insomnia. It had been used before in making beer but the original gruit herbs were preferred by brewers. In about 1530 in Germany the Reformed Protestant Church was appalled by the behaviour of Catholic clergy and their self-indulgence: in food, drink, and lavish life style. The thing with gruit was, the more you drank the more wild you became. So the Protestants pushed for a law to come into effect that all beer be made with only hops. With hopped beer, the more you drank the sleepier and impotent you became.

Much easier to control the masses hey? Helped by merchants and competing royals, eager to break the Catholic Churches monopoly of the beer market, the Protestant Church was able to change the law and so changed the face of beer making forever.

So in true foragers style I have been researching and reviving some of these old gruit recipes and having a go at literally tasting history. I can tell you that the gruit beers are nothing like I have experienced before with a wonderful herbal, bitterness and a complexity of flavour. The beauty of it is that every batch is different and the variations endless.

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NEW, A MUST-VISIT!

A Community presents: The West Hoathly Country Show This inaugural country show takes place on Saturday 6th June, 10am-5.30pm. Here one of the organisers explains how it has come to fruition: When thinking about our summer fundraising event, West Hoathly School Association (PTA) wanted to try something other than the traditional school summer fête. In conjunction with Dan Mans from the Seasoned Sausage Company, who is a member of Young Farmers and frequents shows with his catering trailer, we came up with the idea of a country show.

The ethos behind the show is to provide the local community with an affordable, educational and fun day out, whilst raising funds for the village school and some local charities who helped with the show.

Many families are unable to afford to go to the larger and more established country shows, so we aim to offer an alternative. Therefore entry to the show and parking are FREE, but donations on entry are welcome to help our fundraising efforts.

Being situated in the heart of a village provides a unique opportunity for the school to build strong links with the local community. This country show would not have been possible without the involvement of and collaboration between the school association and a very supportive village community.

On Friday 5th June, the night before the show, the Cat and Fox pubs will jointly be opening the bar in the beer tent from 7pm to 11pm and Mitch Feral and Moveable Feast will be playing from 8pm. Again, entry is free but donations are welcome to cover the band costs.

On Saturday 6th June, there is a full timetable of events in the main arena, including a fun dog show, tug of war, welly-wanging, fly fishing demonstration,

bird of prey displays, etc. Live music will be playing all day in the beer tent or if you prefer a quieter drink, the cream tea tent will have an array of sweet delights. There will be traditional and rural craft demonstrations to watch around the show ground, including the Woodland Centres’ amazing chainsaw carving demonstrations and you can bid for the finished products.

The Young Farmers will be holding their very popular terrier racing and you can have a go at ferret racing or handling a ferret at the Gem Ferret Care Group stall. You can also walk with llamas from the Llama Park and if you’re thinking about keeping chickens at home, you can buy one at the show!

If you fancy a bit of shopping, there will be over 70 stalls to browse, including country clothing and shooting accessories, art and crafts, food and drink, jewellery, health and skin products, games and much more.

For something a little different, the Pericles Theatre Company, who are performing at the Brighton Fringe Festival, will be putting on their “Tale of the Pig” production in the village hall. The Friends of West Hoathly Churchyard will also be conducting guided tours of the churchyard.

For children, there will be a bouncy castle, slide, and inflatable archery, the East Grinstead Model Engineers railway, lots of games stalls, animals to see, a trail competition in the show programme with prizes, face painting, tug of war, welly wanging, best child handler class in the dog show, ice-cream and sweet stalls, etc.

For more information, please visit the show website: westhoathlycountryshow.moonfruit.com. Follow us on Twitter: @westhoathlyshow, and find us on Facebook.

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The History of Gravetye Manor Local Iron Master Richard Infield built Gravetye Manor in 1598 for his bride, Katherine Compton.

The initials ‘R’ and ‘K’ may be seen in the stone over the main entrance door from the formal garden, and the portraits of Richard and Katherine are carved in oak over the fireplace in one of the bedrooms. His father had bought Gravetye land about 1570, a year before he died and Richard inherited the estate when he was only three. The Infields were a prosperous family who lived in this part of Sussex, not only did they have considerable landholdings, they were also wealthy ironmasters. Building Gravetye meant they were able to emphasise their rank in society and their new-found wealth which the flourishing iron industry had brought them. They designed a house with a plan in a new style very different from the

timber framed houses of their predecessors.

The front porch was later added

by Richards son-in-law Henry Faulkener, a barrister, some 40 or so years later. The original house does not seem to have been altered from that time up until the late 19th century when it was bought by the distinguished gardener William Robinson in 1884. He demolished the North East service wing and built a large new guest wing and servant’s rooms to replace it. He also made some significant alterations in the adjacent parts of the main block including re-sitting the main staircase. The house is an important example of a double pile house, i.e. a house built two rooms deep for a member of the gentry rather than a single range dwelling favoured by the yeoman at this date.

This fine house was built on

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a steep south facing slope overlooking some of Richard Infield’s iron workings. There is still a 16th century house known as the Old Moat within a moat some 200m to the west. This moat is no doubt the position of the earliest dwelling for the landholding.

Gravetye lands are only referred to as a manor from about 1600 onwards and this is more or less a courtesy title - there are no manor court rolls.

Over the centuries the prevailing atmosphere has been one of peace at Gravetye, though it has to be said that at one time the manor was used as a smugglers’ hideout and store. The Gravetye furnace also supplied 12-pounder guns to Woolwich until 1769, but otherwise the tranquillity of the estate seems to have been undisturbed.

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one of the greatest gardeners of all time, lived at Gravetye until he died in 1935 - he was by then well into his nineties. It was at Gravetye that he realised many of his ideas for the creation of the English natural garden, the style of which is now admired and copied all over the world, but of which Robinson in the nineteenth century was a pioneer. He had worked in many formal gardens in England and France but in his planning, planting and landscaping he sought always to enhance the natural beauty of the gardens and woods. The variety and charm of the arrangements of trees and shrubs and the layout of the different types of garden at Gravetye is still his creation and memorial. Even when very old and partly crippled he would go out in his wheelchair and scatter bulbs and seeds from a bag on his lap; the garden room he built at the end of the formal garden provided him with a shelter from which he could watch his beloved flowers and trees from a fresh viewpoint.

Robinson’s simple good taste, unusual in one who might be described as late Victorian, extended to his improvements in the Manor. He panelled the interior of the house in wood from the estate and enriched the rooms with chimney-pieces and fireplace furnishings entirely in keeping.

The two-storey wing he built was at right angles to the original house and was partly for staff and partly for guests. It included a new entrance facing east towards the drive. A servant’s hall in the angle between the new and old was largely below ground level. There are essentially 6 bays to the east added by him with a porch for the new entrance. In 1885

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The quality of the alterations carried out by William Robinson and by others, in more recent years, has disguised some of the evidence of the layout and the extent of the original house. However some clues exist in features such as early doorways, whilst important evidence remains in the basement and roof space. There are several photographs taken

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in the late 19th century but unfortunately none show the areas in the north east corner which was subsequently altered. Fortunately large-scale maps show the previous extent of the house.

The proportions of the full symmetrical facade with its distinctive gables topped with finials indicate the skill with which the house was sited and planned.

It is clearly visible from the roadway across the valley. The numerous and substantial brick chimney stacks, a major feature in all new buildings of this period, are duly impressive. The fine stonework and architectural details are similar to other buildings in the neighbourhood such as Wakehurst Place erected in 1590 by Sir Edward Culpeper.

The layout on the ground floor originally had the hall with opposing doorways (one external), at one end still very much in the mediaeval tradition. Most interestingly there is a low dais at the other end, also a mediaeval feature, although one outdated by this time. The Infields were clearly traditionalists in this respect. The small room next to the hall was a little parlour. It may have had a door from the hall in addition to the present one but any evidence is hidden by the panelling. The fire surrounds and the panelling to both these rooms are not original and were doubtless introduced by Robinson.

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Thanks. car park (summer Walk out of the rear past a seat onto siteand is revisited every fiveturn yearsleft andonto the a ride. Remain on aheathland grass path in about 50m Mike Yates, Ashdown Forest Ranger emerging birch scrub is removed before it takes this descending ride, ignoring another that bears off overgently and either shades out the heather or changes right, for about of 400m. the composition the soil. There is a brief pause this month before the bracken grows, so we are busy repairing carright parksare andlinear rides. The ponies are On both left and quarries, on the golf with coursescrub but areand soontrees. to be moved now filled Such to Black Bog and we have sheep out at Kidds Hill and quarries dot the Forest landscape and Ardennes. The next round of funding for the forest provided stone forwith roads.

Typical heathland is being planned Natural England with a more birds suchmix as of nightjar, tree pipit intensive grazing,stonechat, bracken scraping and the removal of bracken cuttings.

This is proving and woodlark usually breed in this area andto be a major changein in particular our methods working but we the ride edges areofone of the are required theForest government the forest best places onbythe (indeedtoinget Sussex) into favourable condition by 2020. Meanwhile our to see, in May, the yellow flowers of the education barn is benefitting from some much small spiny shrub, petty whin. days miles/3km get longer and our seasonal tasks change 1.75

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ASHDOWN FOREST FOOD & PLANT FESTIVAL

The Ashdown Forest Living publication is proud to support the Ashdown Forest Food & Plant Festival 2015, by Perryhill Orchards & Nursery in association with AFTA (Ashdown Forest Tourist Association).

breakfasts, lunches, hot snacks, sandwiches made to order, cream teas, cakes and coffees. A BBQ will be on the go as well so make sure you don’t have a big breakfast before you come!

Building on the success of previous Food & Plant festivals, we are pleased to announce this year’s festival will be held on Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th June at Perryhill Orchards and Perryhill Nursery in Hartfield (TN7 4JJ), from 9.30am – 5pm.

As always there will be free tasting available on the 30 draught ciders and perries in the farm shop, as well as a selection of apple juices.

This free event brings together and celebrates local food, plants and plant based products from around the Ashdown Forest. There will be free samples of local produce from beer, chutney, cheese, cider to juices, sweets, wines and more. With so many fantastic local producers it gives them a chance to showcase their products and for the rest of us to try something we might otherwise not buy!

There will be something for everyone of all ages.

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by Peter Bayless, winner of BBC’s MasterChef, who will be at Perryhill Orchards on both days, doing 3 x 1 hour cookery demonstrations each day. Incidentally he is currently working with us for food experience meals once a month too (tickets available through the farm shop). He will be signing copies of his book while he is with us this weekend.

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Informative tours and demonstrations will be held around the nursery. May & Watts Garden Design will be on hand to talk to as well as Peter Chapman who presents Meridian Radio’s “Gardeners Question Time”.

Meridian Radio will be on site with us for the duration of the weekend taking your requests. Seeing some of the stall holders & staff (hands up I admit I might have had a wiggle) dancing to their favourite tracks makes it an entertaining event in itself.

We will be holding a collection for “Hospice in the Weald”. We raised over £200 last time and hope to beat that figure this time round for a very worthy charity.

A fantastic day out for everybody in and around the Ashdown Forest area.

Ample free parking available. Dogs on leads welcome. Enjoy!

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Pleasure Ride on Ashdown Forest on 20th September The ride will start and finish at Blackhill Car Park, Black Hill Road, Crowborough, TN6 1XE, on the B2188. The course offers beautiful scenery and is almost entirely off-road over heathland and woodland. The Forest Paths will be clearly marked and road crossings will be marshalled. There will be no jumps.

Refreshments will be available, if required, part way round the course. A prepaid voucher will be issued at registration.

There will be two course lengths.

The shorter course will be approximately 10 miles long and the longer course, which will take riders to the northern reaches of the Forest, will be approximately 12 miles long. Riders will leave between 9:30am and 12am, individually or in groups, and will start as near to their requested time as possible.

Entry Fee in advance. AFRA members £15. Permit holders non AFRA £20. Non Permit holders £25. Children under 14 half price and must be accompanied by an adult. Entries on the day will incur an additional charge of £5. Refreshments (prepaid with entry) £3.

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Events at the Ashdown Forest Centre this Summer Sunday 26th July Archaeology Walk Join us to hunt for clues to discover how people have used these woods in the past and shaped how it looks today. We hope to explore pillow mounds, ancient routeways and boundary markers. A short circular walk approximately 2.5 miles suitable for families with children over 7 years.

Ridge Car Park, Colemans Hatch Road, Ashdown Forest. This is opposite Lintons car park.

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27th - 29th July Holiday Play Scheme A chance to discover the wild side of Ashdown Forest with woodland skills, fun outdoors games, trails and trails, den building, woodland cooking, stories and lots more. £75 per child.

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The Nutley Bowling Club Is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. We are a small club situated in a very secluded area behind private properties and sign-posted, on the south side of the village on the A22 road. The ground is rented from the owners of the ground, the Nutley War Memorial Trust. All the work on the playing green, the grounds and the buildings are undertaken by a group of volunteers from the club. We have no support from the local authority but have in the past been helped by a small lottery grant. In the beginning the club was based in another part of Nutley but moved to its current location about 70 years ago. In the 1990s the club purchased a second-hand wooden ex-school classroom from Ashurst Wood for £750 and over the following years the ground was prepared for its erection after obtaining planning approval. Since then other improvements have been made to the ground and our facilities. We are looking forward to our main celebration this year, a match to be played in ‘Windsor Great Park’ within sight of the castle on 21st June against the Royal Household. We are certain that this event will be remembered for many years.

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Gardening in Spring To achieve a great display of climbing and rambling roses it is worth taking a little time to tie in the new shoots regularly during the growing season so they don’t hang down with the weight of the blooms.

If you only have a small area to garden consider a climbing patio rose, planted in a container with a good obelisk to climb up they are easy to train and look after and will be full of colour throughout the summer.

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Roses will grow in just about any soil but it does need to be well drained. When planting enrich the soil with well rotted garden compost or manure. In the early years make sure the roses are well watered until they establish their long root system. If your roses are in pots then during dry spells you may need to water them every day – they don’t like to dry out.

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SATURDAY 6TH JUNE Hartfield Singers Summer Concert. A programme of Mozart, Bach and Handel. Tickets £12 (to include buffet) are available from Robert Jackson 01342 823081 or email info@hartfieldsingers.co.uk. At 7:30pm, St. Mary’s Church, Hartfield.

SUNDAY 7TH JUNE Penshurst Choral Society Summer Concert.

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Vivaldi; Gloria conducted by Anthony Zerpa Falcon. Tickets £12.50 on the door.

1930, St John the Baptist Church, Penshurst, TN11 8BL. www.penshurstchoralsociety.co.uk.

MONDAY 8TH JUNE How real is Downton Abbey? A talk by Bob Cairns.

At 7pm, Luxford Day Centre, Uckfield.

THURSDAY 11TH JUNE Ashdown Forest Decorative and Fine Arts Society.

Discovering women artists 1600-1900. A talk by Mr. Bernard Allan BA (Hons] MA about female artists who may have been famous in their day, but who have been lost or forgotten over time. AFDFAS members free of charge, guests £5. At 2.30pm, Nutley War Memorial Hall, High Street, Nutley, TN22 3NE. THURSDAY 11TH JUNE Sweet Charity Musical. Tells the story of dance hall hostess Charity Hope Valentine who finds herself falling in love, time and time again, with the wrong man. Will she find her one true love finally? Featuring well-known songs such as Big Spender, Rhythm Of Life and I Love To Cry At Weddings this musical is filled with uplifting songs, dances and comedy for the whole family. Adults £12, Children £9, Group and School Rates available. At 7:30pm, Chequer Mead Theatre, East Grinstead.

FRIDAY 12TH JUNE LIGHT- whats your colour? The 6th popular interactive panel talk hosted by AwakenToHeal. Listen to and question a panel of 6 speakers from all walks of life. Share your ideas. 8 - 10pm. Community centre, Hartfield Rd, Forest Row. Enquiries: Amanda Edwards on 07703561616. www.awakentoheal.com.

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friendly stallholders offering unusual and interesting crafts, local organic produce, clothing, plants and more. Puppet shows, taster therapy sessions and a delicious barbeque by an outdoor theatre.11am - 4pm, Kidbrooke Park, Priory Road, Forest Row. SATURDAY 13TH JUNE High Hurstwood Village Fete. Visitors can look forward to a fabulous day out with something for everyone. We have a huge amount of activities in the school tent for the children. New for this year we have the High Hurstwood Halt miniature railway. You could win some fabulous prizes in our silent auction, champagne draw and grand prize draw. Whilst the children are having fun you can browse for bargains on the stalls. As well as all of this we have some fabulous food on offer to suit all tastes and palates. At 1pm, High Hurstwood Village.

SATURDAY 13TH JUNE Hartfield & District Horticultural Society Open Gardens and Garden Trail Weekend. 13th and 14th June, from 2 to 6pm. Tickets £4 for the weekend, no charge for children. All participating gardens are within the village centre and in walking distance.

Tickets on sale during the weekend by the village War Memorial. Plants and refreshments will be available at some gardens. Visit our website: www. hartfieldhortionline.co.uk. At 2pm, Hatfield Village.

SUNDAY 14TH JUNE Fletching Garden Trail. The private gardens of Fletching open their gates once more for this 23rd annual event. Winner of ‘Best kept village in all Sussex’, picturesque Fletching often features in ‘Days Out’ guides of national newspapers due to its award-winning features, from the beautiful medieval church, Tudor-fronted houses and The Griffin and Rose & Crown gastropubs. The Fletching Garden Trail, held only for one day each year, offers visitors much yearned-for access to immaculately kept herbaceous borders, stunning views across National Trust land, and homemade lunches under ancient oak trees.

Enjoy Clinton Lodge, ice creams, alpacas, activities for children, local artists, raffles, crafts, plant stalls and more. Fletching, Nr. Uckfield, East Sussex. Gardens open from 11am to 4pm. Tickets £6, children go free. Lunches, cakes and refreshments available. Free parking all day. All proceeds benefit Fletching Church of England Primary School.

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THURSDAY 18TH JUNE

SUNDAY 21ST JUNE

Uckfield Music Club. Jane Lindsay, Cello, a selected artist of the Countess of Munster Trust and Alison Rhind, one of the foremost collaborative pianists of her generation. They will be playing Beethoven, Schumann, Janacek and Saint Saens. at 7:30pm, St Margaret’s Church, Buxted Park.

Frant Festival of the Guitar. John Etheridge and Clive Carroll, the UK’s greatest jazz guitarists.

‘John Etheridge is one of the best in the world’ (Pat Metheny). Clive Carroll has been described in the music press as ‘an incredible acoustic talent’.

Tickets £13 by tel. 01892 750665 or online @ www. wegottickets.com. At 8pm (doors open 7:30pm), Frant Church, High Street, TN3 9DX.

FRIDAY 19TH JUNE Frant Festival of the Guitar. Craig Ogden, one of the most exciting guitarists of his generation. ‘A worthy successor to Julian Bream’ (BBC Music Magazine).

Tickets £13, by tel. 01892 750665 or online @ www. wegottickets.com. At 8pm (doors open 7:30 pm), Frant Church, High Street, Frant,TN3 9DX. SATURDAY 20TH JUNE West Hoathly and Sharpthorne Garden and Art Trail. Visit 15 GARDENS in these beautiful villages; see the stunning views from the churchyard; look for sculptures, pottery, etchings, and paintings. Lunch on soup and cake at Hoathly Hill from 1pm.Trail Tickets £5, accompanied children under 12 free. Regret no dogs. Teas, plants sales, 2-6pm, last admission at 5pm, West Hoathly and Sharpthorne.

SATURDAY 20TH JUNE Scaynes Hill Flower Show and Plant Sale. Exhibits, plant sale, teas and raffle. At 2pm till 4pm, Scaynes Hill Millennium Village Centre, Scaynes Hill, West Sussex.

SATURDAY 20TH JUNE Frant Festival of the Guitar. Gary Ryan. Gary has performed to international acclaim for over 20 years.

‘Jewel-like precision, such fluency and musicality’ (The Daily Telegraph). Tickets £13 tel: 01892 750665 or online @ www.wegottickets.com. At 8 pm (doors open at 7:30 pm), Frant Church, High Street, Frant, TN3 9DX.

THURSDAY 25TH JUNE Groombridge Open Air Theatre Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. From 25 - 27th June and 2 - 4th July in the garden of Birchden, picnic on the grass before the performance. Bar available, 7:45pm.

Gardens open from 6:30pm, Birchden, Groombridge, TN3 9NH. SATURDAY 27TH JUNE Songs of Life. Introducing music therapy through songs, film and words to celebrate music therapy week. Caroline Long and Brenda Waite, mezzosopranos with Peter Long, piano. Tickets £15 from musicfforme@gmail.com, 07794 404916. At 4pm, Hammerwood Park, Hammerwood, East Grinstead, RH19 3QE. SATURDAY 27TH JUNE Groombridge Horticultural Society Summer show.

Come and join us for afternoon tea whilst viewing the show entries - everyone welcome. At 2:30 pm, Groombridge Village Hall.

SATURDAY 27TH JUNE Nutley Village Day. Free entry. Fun for all the family including may pole dancing, Punch and Judy, Spiritus, fun dog show, dance displays, pony rides, alpacas v vehicles, raffle, craft stalls and BBQ and much more.

Further information at www.nutleyvillageday.org.uk.

At 1pm, Fords Green (alongside the A22) in Nutley.

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RSPCA South Godstone Car Boot Sale. Cake stall and hot and cold drinks. Free parking with disabled parking area. Sellers, all cars £10, vans £15. Trailers additional £3. Pay on entry. No need to book your pitch! Open for set up from 9am. Gates open to buyers at 10am - 2 pm, RSPCA South Godstone Animal Centre, Eastbourne Road, South Godstone, RH9 8JB.

Music for a Summer Evening with the ESK Wind Ensemble. Professional Musicians play Masterworks

by Mozart, Finzi, Britten, Milhaud and others. Tickets are £12 which include wine and nibbles (children free). Available at the door or from the Churchwarden on 01892660159. All proceeds to go towards the New Church Hall. At 7:30pm, St John’s Church, Crowborough, TN6 1RJ.

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