Ashdown Forest Living December Issue

December 2011

Nutley Windmill History of Ashdown Forest Pooh People Š Mark Bowler, www.OneGlassEye.co.uk.

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Dear Residents,

Welcome to the December issue of the Ashdown Forest Living.

This month we are publishing the second part of a History of Ashdown Forest as promised.

Nutley Windmill, a gem at the heart of Ashdown Forest, is the only Open Trestle Post Mill that is still in working order in the country... We are giving it’s just deserts with a 2 page feature about it’s past and a look to it’s future.

As it is Christmas time we’ve a feature about who the real Good King Wenceslas was - the famous carol was translated/written in nearby East Grinstead by John Mason Neale.

This area’s favourite fictional son, Winnie-the-Pooh, is loved the world over. We have an insight into some of the people that surrounded him as a young teddy, full of lots of photos!

Thank you for all your positive feedback about the publication and it’s place in the Ashdown Forest area. We are here to be of service.

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Finally we would like to wish you a lovely Christmas, and all the best for 2012.

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Contents The History of Ashdown Forest, Part II

6,8

December Recipe

10

Nutley Windmill

12,14

Good King Wenceslas

16

Pooh People

18,20

Miss Moneywise

22

Quiz, Quotes

24

Crowborough to Host Olympic Torch Relay 26 The English Language: Shakespeare

26

What’s On

28

Rangers Report

30

Index

30

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he conflict between the rights of the King and his courtiers and those of the common people who lived in the area caused many problems, mainly for the latter. The ordinary forest dweller had certain rights. A survey carried out in 1273 shows 208 families living on the edge of Ashdown Forest. They could graze their pigs and cattle and take dead wood and furze for fuel and repairs. They could not carry a bow and any dogs they owned had to have their claws removed so they could not harm game.

The punishment for poaching was severe, imprisonment and a ban on being allowed back on the forest when released.

After the Restoration, during the reign of Charles II, various plans were proposed for the improvement of the forest, but the intervening years had seen so many diverse users and uses of the land, it proved impossible to reconcile them all. A compromise was sought and, in 1693, 6400 acres were awarded to the Commoners together with rights similar to those they had enjoyed previously. The remaining 14,000 acres were available for re-enclosure and improvement. In spite of this, however, the

In 1496 the first water-powered blast furnace in England was built at Newbridge near Coleman’s Hatch. The iron industry, largely neglected since the Romans left, was soon to expand rapidly. By 1600 there were over seventy furnaces in the Weald, the majority on the forest. For more than a hundred years the Weald had a virtual monopoly of the gun-casting industry. This only came to an end when the coal fired furnaces appeared and the charcoal fuelled ones in the Weald could not compete.

Richard Sackville was appointed Master Forester in 1561. He was the grandfather of Thomas Sackville, Second Earl of Dorset, who left £1,000 in his will to build Sackville College in East Grinstead as an almshouse for “twenty-one men and ten women”. The Sackvilles looked after Ashdown Forest well, but the onset of the Civil War changed that.

The forest was given to the Parliamentary Army and the pale fell into disrepair. The deer were hunted nearly to extinction.

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next hundred years saw repeated attempts by successive Lords of the Manor to restrict the rights of the Commoners and by the Commoners to destroy the enclosures.

By the mid 1800s transportation to Australia was not an uncommon sentence for this crime. The Enclosure Acts at about the same period meant that many of the commoners rights disappeared and some had to find work as hedgers or ditchers because they could no longer graze their animals on the forest.

In 1885 the Ashdown Forest Act was passed which established a Board of Conservators to oversee the forest and preserve it in its natural state. This Act was stregthened in 1937 further empowering the Conservators to enforce the by-laws.

East Sussex County Council bought the forest from the Earl de la Warr in 1988 and a trust was formed to take legal ownership. It was designated a Special Protection Area some twelve years later and fencing and grazing were brought into small parts on the south and west. It is now also a Special Area of Conservation and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. To ensure that the habitats are not harmed by too big a footfall of visitors, local planning authorities now have to take the distance from the forest into account when deciding on large developments in their areas.

Ashdown Forest is now a major attraction in the area. Walkers come for the open terrain, interspersed with stands of Scots Pines, which gives spectacular views over the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Bird watchers come to try to catch a glimpse of a Dartford warbler, or a night-jar or woodlark.

Botanists search for the rare marsh gentians.

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Dogs are exercised, horses are ridden, for which their riders need a permit. Hunting is now banned and the deer are back in large numbers once more.

In addition to the visitors, the forest is the location chosen for many scientific surveys on butterflies and reptiles and ecologists monitor the numerous streams. All of this makes Ashdown Forest one of the best resources for recreational use and scientific study in the South East. Under the vigilant eye of the Conservators its survival is assured for the next thousand years at least.

By Dorothy Hatswell

The Ashdown Bird Group

was set up in 1989 by then Forest Superintendent, John Nicholls, Ranger Chris Marrable, and Roy Harman. Its aim was to monitor the forest’s birds: in particular, those which are heathland specialities – Nightjar, Stonechat, Dartford Warbler, etc.

As well as routine monitoring, particular note is taken of a few selected species each year. In 2011, concentration has been put on Woodlarks, Redstarts and Tree Pipits.

Another aspect of the Group’s work involves leading walks on the Forest. On the spring walk this year, visitors were very pleased to see a perched Turtle Dove close by.

Details of any interesting or unusual sightings are always welcome. To get in touch visit: www.ashdown-forest.co.uk.

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Nutley

W indmill

In the middle of Ashdown Forest stands a grand old lady, she’s been there for nearly two hundred years through rain and storms.

She is called Marlpits Windmill, Nutley and she was already elderly by that time, having been born three hundred years earlier, in the time of Henry VIII. I find it mind boggling that she was an acorn in about 1450, which was only two hundred years after windmills were brought or invented in this Country and Europe.

In this Country there are three types of Windmills: Post: with the whole body of the mill turning to face the wind by Man power, and is the original type.

Tower: has brick or stone walls and only the top (the Cap) turns to face the wind. Local examples are at Polegate or Stone Cross.

Marlpits Windmill, Nutley is the earliest design of mill, an Open Trestle Post mill. The body, called the buck, is erected on top of an oak post which is supported by a timber trestle. The buck is pushed round to face the wind by a long tail pole at the rear and pushed to wind by the miller.

There are only five of these designs left in this Country one in Kent, three in Cambridgeshire, with Nutley being the only one capable of working.

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Smock: similar to the tower mills but is built of timber and is shaped like the old labour’s smock. Local examples are at West Blatchington or Chailey.

Locally there are later designs of Post Mills, at Cross in Hand, Argos Hill, Windmill Hill and Clayton Jill. In these the trestle is surrounded with a building called a Roundhouse and is usually turned to wind by a fantail at the back, often on the tailpole.

Nutley came to here in several moves, starting from Kent with the final move from Crowborough. This is quite a common practice and at the mill we have a copy of a print showing one being pulled by 86 oxen in 1797 in Brighton, this windmill no longer exists.

Nutley arrived about 1835 and she worked until about 1908. For the next sixty years she rested but had maintenance carried out on her by the owner Lady Castle-Stewart to prevent her falling down. In 1968 a group of enthusiasts got together and after getting the owners permission planned the restoration. The Uckfield & District Preservation Society was formed to raise funds, Lady Castle-Stewart agreed to pay pound for pound towards the funds. Over the next four years Nutley was restored back to working order, that is to say workable order.

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© Justin Brice

we erected each open day.

When it rained the helpers got wet and there was no items to sell.

In 1994 we had a grant from British Telecom and were able to have electricity connected. We were able the provide a shop in the Victorian Barn, we had used as a workshop. This was a great improvement but the shop had to be taken down when being used as the workshop.

This meant we could not have permanent displays for visitors.

We also had no toilet facilities.

Latterly we have erected a camping toilet tent and chemical toilet, but this is still not satisfactory. Not having a toilet has prevented a number of new helpers coming forward. weight - 50 kilograms. Just enough to confirm she can still grind wheat. There are very few machines with parts nearly 500 years old that are still capable of working.

From when it was restored in 1972 we have opened the mill to the public from four days to twelve days a year, plus most Wednesdays. So next year we will have been opening her for forty years.

Over these forty years, apart from the maintenance work necessary to keep her well, we have been improving the facilities for visitors and helpers.

Originally we only had a shed

We have therefore decided to build a new Visitor Centre and toilets. We are erecting it between the existing Barn and the entrance, and although it is not very large we will be using all available space.

Early November we received planning permission and we started excavations for the foundations.

building ready for the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the windmill. It is quite a tight schedule to get all the work done and it will require a great effort by our team of volunteers.

We are starting to fundraise for the project, we have enough to get moving but will need to raise more to finish all our hopes. We are looking for more volunteers both for the work and for the future running of the mill open days.

Although the season of open days are over for this year, we still welcome visitors on our Wednesdays working day. So why not come and see our progress and perhaps help, 11.00 -3.00pm. The first open day next year is on the last Sunday in March.

W. Brian Pike, Hon.Chairman, Friends of Nutley Windmill. 01435 873367.

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Good King Wenceslas The Real Story In 1853 the ubiquitous carol, Good King Wenceslas, was written/translated in East Grinstead, Capital of the High Weald, by English Hymn writer John Mason Neale.

But who was the real Good King Wenceslas?

Saint Wenceslas was a king of Bohemia, an area that is now part of present day Czech Republic.

The young Wencelas was influenced & educated by his paternal grandmother Ludmila, a devout Christian.

Wencelsas’s father died when he was thirteen and, as the oldest male, he was made King. His mother, Drahomira, ruled until he was eighteen during which time she had Ludmila murdered and purportedly returned the country to a more pagan way of life.

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Wenceslas enlivened a dedicated Christian way of life when he came to the throne aged 18, building, for instance, the Rotunda of St Vitus in Prague Castle.

He has variously been depicted providing shelter to orphans, buying children out of slavery and giving alms to the poor.

Legend says that he banished his mother and her pagan followers from his castle – although letting her back later.

claims a huge army of knights sleep inside Blaník, a mountain in the Czech Republic and will awake under the command of St. Wenceslas to bring aid to the Czech people when they face their darkest hour of need.

Immortalised into the English language on the border of Ashdown Forest, whether the carol story is factual or not, he is certainly remembered by history as a saintly, compassionate ruler.

After four fruitful years of his rule, when Wenceslas was 22, his brother Boleslav plotted with other nobles to kill him.

He invited Wenceslas to celebrate a saint’s day with him, but on the way to the Church, he was attacked and stabbed to death by Boleslav’s supporters.

His brother was then enthrowned and unsurprisingly became known as Boleslaus I, the Cruel.

It is alleged that being remorseful of what he had done, he promised to devote his son to religion and educate him as a clergyman.

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POOH People

by Shirley Harrison

Shirley Harrison, author of The Life and Times of the Real Winnie-the-Pooh, gives us an insight into the book character which is loved the world over.

There can be no teddy bear in the world like Ashdown Forest’s very own Winnie-the-Pooh, whose paw has been lovingly clasped by so many people, famous and not so famous. I talked to many of them while researching my book, gathering a personal record of the impact Christopher Robin’s childhood companion had on all who knew him.

Christopher Robin and playmate ©Dr Juilia Ryde

Mrs Daphne Milne I met Mrs Milne at home in Hartfield. Her husband died in 1956 and she was selling the Tudor farmhouse where Pooh and Christopher Robin grew up.

Mrs Milne was elegant and charming as we chatted beside the inglenook fireplace.

“We had no idea, as we sat making Pooh and Piglet voices, that those terribly English toys would amuse people so faraway,” she told me. “I suppose my husband’s dream characters had the faults and foibles of all people whether they live in wigwams or igloos.”

The Hunny Tea at Cotchford Farm in 2009.

In 2009 I invited some of those who remembered the Milne days, to a nostalgic “Hunny Tea” at Cotchford Farm, as guests of today’s owners, Alistair and Harriet Johns.

Pete Tasker Pete arrived proudly clutching the Pooh look-alike teddy that Mr Milne gave his dad, George, Pete Task er when he was born. George Tasker devoted his life to the creation of the gardens at Cotchford and won prizes at the annual flower show. “He was forbidden by Mrs Milne to give those blooms to the church!” Pete told me.

“Dad was very loyal and every payday, he donned his Sunday best to wait, politely, by the kitchen door.”

Dawn’s granny kept the bakery (today Pooh Corner) in Hartfield. She told how, with Nanny holding the reins, Christopher Robin often rode his donkey down to buy bullseyes. “Mrs Milne was rather aloof” she observed. “She looked immaculate, with blue-rinsed hair, walking through the village in the middle of the street. We thought she didn’t want to speak to any of us.”

George Tasker devoted his life to the creation of the gardens

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Hannah Rooth

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Tommy Mitchell The Mitchell brothers ran the nearby garage. Tommy recalls, “Dad drove the family around locally and was friendly with Burnside, their chauffeur, who ferried them from Chelsea.

Tommy said that Burnside taught Mr Milne to drive but he was a menace!�

Tommy Mitchell whose father drove the Milnes around Š Angus Beaton

Hannah Rooth (nee Symons) and Rosemary Foster (nee Weaver) Hannah played Eeyore and Rosemary was Pooh in a pageant attended by the Duchess of York in 1929. Hannah lived on the nearby chicken farm and was a constant playmate for Christopher Robin. Her saddest memory was of the day that Roo was lost for ever in the orchard.

The ladies who as children played the animals in the Pageant

Cotchford Farm has hardly changed since the Milne days and though people in Hartfield never felt they “belonged�, those who worked for them, shared the magic they created and remember them with warmth.

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CROWBOROUGH TO HOST Olympic Torch Relay One of only two towns in Wealden to do so!

If Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense, could have Christmas fun then so can we all

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History: in Ancient Greece the torch and relay was an important part of the celebratory festivals surrounding the Olympic Games.

A sacred flame burned continually on the alter of the goddess, Hera and a sanctified truce was announced for the duration of the games.

This was heralded in by the lighted torch being carried throughout the lands.

Today a traditional ceremony for the lighting of the flame is followed at every Games. Lit from the sun’s rays at the Temple of Hera in Olympia (the home of the Ancient Games) it travels on a short relay around Greece before being handed over to the new Host City at another ceremony in the Panathenaiko stadium in Athens.

The Olympic Torch Relay route has been planned so that the Flame will come within an hour of 95 percent of people in the UK. It will be visiting Crowborough and Pevensey Bay, Wealden, on Tuesday 17th July 2012.

The aim of the Torch Relay is to help shine a light on the whole of the UK – from dynamic urban areas to places of outstanding natural beauty.

The towns and cities that the relay visits are sure to have plenty of media & TV coverage!

Wealden council is looking for volunteers to supervise parking, engage the community, help with crowd control and much more.

If you’d like to involved please email active@ wealden.gov.uk or telephone 01323 443 555

The English Language:

Shakespeare

More than eighty spellings of Shakespeare’s name have been found, among these Shagspeare, Shakestaffe and Shakepere which was the spelling insisted on by earlier editions of the Oxford English Dictionary.

‘Shakespeare,’ is factually now the official spelling (Google Search/Microsoft spell checker agree so therefore it is so… ).

Curiously this is the one spelling he never used himself. In his own will he even spelt his name differently in 2 places: Shakspere once and Shakspeare in another.

According to calculations one tenth of the seventeen thousand or so words Shakespeare used in his writing were original. Meaning they had never been used before! He lived in a time which many would think of as the Golden Age of the English Language when it flourished with new words. Here are just some he gave us: excellent, fretful, submerged, countless, gloomy, majestic. His use of language helped shape modern English.

There are also expressions such as: “with bated breath” (Merchant of Venice) and “a foregone conclusion” (Othello) which people often draw on to express themselves.

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What’s On:

December 2011

For non-profit community, charity groups this page is free of charge to use: email: info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk.

Wednesday 30th November

Saturday 10th December

Christmas Gift Fair: One-stop shopping for all your gift needs.10am - 3pm. For the 17th year, Friends of East Sussex Hospices (FESH) is holding its one day Christmas Gift Fair in The Norfolk Pavilion at the South of England Showground, Ardingly. Doors open at 10am.

Mansion Market. An atmospheric Christmas Market in and around a beautiful 18th century mansion with over 70 stalls offering hand-made dolls, pottery, leather/metal /woodwork, etc. Puppet Shows, Musicians and an all-day Cafe. Free admission and parking. Kidbrooke Park, Priory Road, Forest Row.11am- 4pm

Thursday 1st December Crowborough’s main Christmas Event in the Town Centre from 5 - 7p.m. The evening will start with Father Christmas visiting the Town Centre on his way to the Grotto in the Town Hall. There will be entertainment for the whole family as well as fairground rides, stilt walkers, magicians, jugglers and ice maidens who will be on hand to provide street entertainment. Live music will be provided at the Piazza and the land train will be transporting youngsters to Santa’s grotto.

The countdown to the Christmas lights switch on will be at 7.00 p.m. For more info: 01892 652907, email: info@crowboroughtowncouncil.gov.uk Friday 2nd December & Saturday 3rd December Hadlow Down Variety Club is proud to present its pantomime Aladdin. Performances will take place in Hadlow Down Village Hall at 7.30 pm, on Friday at 2.30 pm & 7:30 pm. Box Office: 01825 830857 or 01825 830231.

Saturday 3rd December Forest Row School Christmas Fayre. Christmas is coming, so join us for our Christmas Fayre. Our festive event brings you home-made sweets and goodies, jewellery, beauty products, gifts and beautiful hand-made crafts.

Mulled wine and mince pies, Christmas puds, tombola, raffle, Santa’s magical grotto and much more besides!

11am – 2pm. Entry Adults £1 Children free.

Sunday 11th December British Heart Foundation – Santa in the Park, Victoria Park, Haywards Heath. There will be hundreds of Santas running or walking to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. Santa Fun Run registration begins at 9.30 am. Santa warm up at 10.00 Start time 10.15.

Santa Fun Walk registration begins at 10.45 warm up 11.20 Start time 11.30. Santas must register prior event at www.bhf.org.uk/haywardsheathsantajog.

Monday 12th December Sussex Family History Group, Uckfield Branch: Victorian Christmas Show – Timespan. Refreshments available.

Meet 7pm for 7.30pm start at Luxford Day Centre, Library Way, High St, Uckfield.

Monday 12th December ‘Singing for fun’ Christmas concert in aid of St. Peter & St. James Hospice. All Saints Church, Crowborough, at 7:30pm.

Thursday, 15th December 2011 - Sunday, 18th December

The Christmas Carol Service will be held at All Saints Church, Chapel Green, Crowborough at 7.30 p.m. All are welcome to attend. Call: 01892 652907

Every day Christmas Tree Festival. From 10am to 6pm (except Saturday 1-3). Holy Trinity Church will be hosting its 9th Christmas Tree Festival. 20 trees all decorated by the entrants will be on show. All can vote for their favourites. Awards will be given at the back of the Church after the Parish Carol service at 6pm on the Sunday, with mince pies! Holy Trinity Church, Forest Row. Email: bobrowgb@aol.com

Thursday 8th December

Saturday 17th December to Friday 30th December

Wednesday 7th December

‘Moths & Butterflies of Rural Rye’ by Colin Payne at 2:30pm. An Invitation to all National Trust Members living in Sussex to join our afternoon and evening lectures at Clair Hall, Haywards Heath For further details call: 01444 482055 Saturday 10th December Forest Row Lifeboat Choir & Guests: Christmas Carol Concert in aid of RNLI, Freshfield Hall, Forest Row, 7.30pm. Tickets £8 to include glass of mulled wine and light supper from Bishop’s Forest Row or phone 01825 712562 28 • December 2011 • Ashdown Forest Living

Pantomime: Snow White (at various times) Chequer Mead Theatre, De La Warr Road, East Grinstead. Call: 01342 302000 Saturday 17th December Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime. Cost: Adults £6.50; Family (2 adults+3 children) £30 at 2.30 p.m.

Weald Hall, Civic Centre, Uckfield. Call: 01825 747791 Until Saturday 31st December Nature Stripped Bare, The Ashdown Forest Centre. The Ridge Road, Wych Cross, Forest Row, RH18 5JP

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Ranger’s

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Being a ranger is a demanding job so you have to be physically fit. There are four rangers on the 1.75 forest,miles/3km each one responsible for his own chase.

Our duties include patrolling the forest and the From Linton’s park and crossreporting the road suspicious (with care) into Ridge car parks, litter car picking car park (summer only).

Walk out of the rear vehicles.

Removing fly tipping, searching for past lost a seat onto adogs, grassherding path and in about turnoffleft onto a ride. Remain on sheep and50m cattle the roads. this gentlyinjured descending ride, ignoring another that Shooting deer. We work with ESFR putting outbears off right, forest for firesabout and 400m. the police. Anyone injured on the forest who needs a paramedic will often get a lift On left and right quarries, cannot drive in aboth rangers truck as are thelinear ambulances © Dave Brooker www.mappingideas.co.uk now filledthe with scrub andcasualty trees. Such far over forest.

If the cannot be moved quarries the in Forest landscape and The forest we havedot to call the air ambulance. and updated and there are meetings with other provided stoneare for walked roads. Typical boundaries everyheathland year and this is a public bodies. All rangers are mobile and we have birds such as nightjar, pipit 800 properties considerable task asstonechat, there aretree some new radios fitted in our vehicles thanks to Pat Arnold and woodlark usually breed in this area and on the forest. When we have done that there are and the Friends of Ashdown Forest. So if you need the ride and edgesvegetation in particularsurveys, are one roadside of the wildlife trees and to report an incident, such as an accident or sheep best places on the Forest (indeed in Sussex) the conservation of the heathland. Issuing wood on the road or fly tipping you can phone to see, inchecking May, the yellow the permits, riding flowers badges.ofMaintaining 01342 823583 or 822846 in the evenings and small spiny shrub, petty whin. footpaths, bridges, car parks and rides. Then there weekends and we will be there! is the administrative work. Hours are spent using digital havea to be kept The ridemaps bearsand left,gps. thenRecords right through break in the quarries Mike Yates, Ashdown Forest Ranger and continues descending for 400m to a metalled drive (Sandy Lane) . On Support the left isLocal a bowling green and ahead are the Business cricket pitch and pavilion ofCleaning/ Coleman’s Ironing Hatch Cricket Counsellor Club.

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