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September 2013

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Index: Support Local Business

Dear Residents, This month we have various articles of local interest including ‘The Roads of Forest Row’ and a feature about the world renowned gardener William Robinson of Gravetye Manor, which of course borders on Ashdown Forest.

We also feature a walk from a new book by Local author Deirdre Houston.

Crowborough based charity World in Need gives us the low-down of their important work and how local support has helped.

Please get in touch with any local community news, events, information that you think will be of interest.

Thank you for supporting our many local businesses.

Tally & Chris Ashdown Forest Living To advertise call 01342 300152 info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk

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Architects Cowan Architects

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David Fry

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Blinds/Curtains/ Interiors Penumbra Blinds

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Curtain Craft

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Blinds & Curtains

21

Chez Soi Interiors

21

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The Roads of Forest Row

12,14

Oliver Competition

14

Local Walk

16, 18

World In Need International

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William Robinson

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Electrical Store Allzones

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Local Carpenter/Joiner

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Services Contractors

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Woodlands Sx Housing & Care

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Carpet Cleaning Benjamin Morphew

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James Denman Electrical Services

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Compte Electrical Services 19 Hammerwood Refurb & Maintenance

25

AI Plumbing

31

French Tuition

9

EPH Plumbing & Heating 31

German Tuition

9

Baileybridge Construction 29

Cleaning

Mid Sussex Timber

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Ovenaid

23

John Bloom Plumbing

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Cleaning ad

15

Supreme Ovens

15

Painter & Decorator

21

Computer Computer Studio

19

Ashdown Music Festival

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Food/Drink Wiltshire farm food

13

Templar Property Service 35 MRM Plastering

27

MM Roofing

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Kitchens Kitchens Bespoke

33

Absolutely Kitchens

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Locksmiths

34

The Finishing Touch

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TJN Locksmiths

Forest Row Festival

34

Eucaderm Hair Clinic

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Music

What’s On

36, 38

Health/Wellbeing/ Fitness

Soundhand Studio

Lotte Berk Fitness Studio 11 Healing Craniosacral Therapy 9

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Quinn Electrical Services 37

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Although this publication does not vet advertisers, a number of complaints will mean that businesses will be barred from further advertising.

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Ground Based Guttering 35

Care

Entertainment

Mum’s the Word

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Home Maintenance

Amber Electrical

Blackland Farm

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Levade Systems

Nutley Motor Services Ltd. 25

Children/Education

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Trencher/Mini digger

Leon Miller Electrical

Car Scuffs Sussex

General Building

Services/Products

Sussex Health Care Homes 40

The Phoenix Comic

Local History Notes

Catwick Cattery

HomeCare

Fingers crossed for an Indian Summer...

All the best,

V. Cottingham Landscaping &

Animal Care

Welcome to the September issue.

Family Chiropractic Clinic 17

Garden/Landscape/ Exteriors

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Offices To Rent Horsted Keynes

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Business Park

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Offices to Rent

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Satellite TV & Aerial

Richards Fencing

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Specialist

Sargents Tree Services

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Norsat

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Solicitors

Stone Garden Services

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PR Vince Solicitors

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The Finishing Touch- Forest Row WHERE STYLE IS NOT EXPENSIVE IT IS PRICELESS.

With the growing awareness of organic products, The Finishing Touch Hair and Beauty Salon at Forest Row have an exclusive range of De Lorenzo hair colours that are botanical, natural plant based with certified Organics, herbs, plants, fruit acids, vitamins, vegetable oils and phyto protein complexes, phew! For animal lovers they also do not test on animals or contain ingredients of an animal origin. Aside from the natural line The Finishing Touch also use some of the top brands such as Wella and L’Oreal to suit everyone’s preference to ensure your colour is perfect.

The Finishing Touch is a well established salon and welcomes ladies, gents and children. The elegant salon designed with antique reception desk, guilt large mirrors and rich velvet cerise wall décor, sits in the buzzing area of Forest Row close to shops, restaurants and bars. Parking opposite ensures convenient access to the salon whether having a quick trim or complete restyle. There is also a brand new beauty treatment room

to cater for your beauty needs, waxing to facials with a beautiful line of professional skincare products, look out for its launch.

A variety of top professional hair products are available for purchase to maintain your style at home and continue the care for your hair until your next visit. Moroccan Oil is one of the fastest selling product ranges due its fantastic qualities of strengthening the hair and leave it looking and feeling healthier.

Moroccan Oil treatment, Shampoos and conditioners, styling creams and mousses, frizz and curl control to curl enhancers, there is a product for every requirement. The salon also has an exclusive semi permanent eyebrow kit containing 3 templates in every set so you can select a natural brow, thin or thick according to your need. Simply select the colour and choice of template and brush on your brows. This semipermanent powder will not smudge and is waterproof lasting for up to 24hrs, an easy way to define and shape your ideal brow. The Finishing

Touch is a stockist of Bare Minerals makeup and GHD’s so whether looking for home care products or gifts, The Finishing Touch has a solution to enhance your total look.

The owner and Directors Jayne and Sue have been in the hairdressing industry for many years and have an extensive amount of experience in all areas of cutting styles, chromatics and hair extensions. Their team are all trained to the highest standards to ensure each visit is a special experience and a selection of Mini Treats are available to pamper your hands and nails or relax with a head massage and hair mask treatment.The Finishing Touch is open 6 days a week Monday to Saturday and late hours to suit clients in todays’ busy world of juggling careers, children and social lives.

The Finishing Touch has offered all readers of Forest Row Living Magazine an exclusive offer. Simply mention this article at the time of booking, and with every cut or shampoo and blow dry you will receive a complimentary Moroccan Oil Treatment Mask application with a relaxing massage.

To book an appointment telephone 01342 826005 or email tfthairandbeauty@gmail.com Further information about the services available at The Finishing Touch are on the web page www. finishingtouchsalon.co.uk Written by Sue Harrison Sue is an Independent Consultant

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s it’ r! in e a ow d Y N co n Se

Roberto Gonzalez

Proudly presents: Friday 1st November, Christian Community Church, Forest Row 19:30 An evening featuring some of the finest Chamber works and Chamber Musicians. Programme to include: Mozart Clarinet Quintet and Dvorak Viola Quintet.

Laura van der Heijden

Saturday 2nd November, The Long Room, Michael Hall School, Forest Row 16:00 Enjoy the dazzling techniques of an Award-Winning Guitar Duo followed by the iconic “Trout” Quintet by Schubert. Programme to include: works by De Falla, Lhoyer and Schubert.

Sunday 3rd November, Gala Concert, Michael Hall School Theatre, Forest Row 18:00 Witness the not-to-be missed World Premiere arrangement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for Cello Octet and Solo Violin. Cellophony will be giving us a musical surprise AND Laura van der Heijden will again be taking to the stage. Programme to include: Vivaldi Four Seasons and Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence.

Ticket Prices: Individual ticket prices £11, Gala concert £12.50 (concessions £7 and £8.50) Season Tickets £28 (concessions £18)

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MAKING THE BEST USE OF AN ARCHITECT

By Phillip Mumford, Managing Director, Cowan Architects

So you want to convert the loft, knock down a wall or two, build an extension or construct your ideal home from scratch. Perhaps, you don’t actually know what you want but would like know what’s possible. Whatever your plans, an architect can play an important part even if it’s to say what’s realistic and what’s not.

You can ask your architect to do as little or as much as you like from simply draw up your plans to project managing every detail of the process and the other professionals involved (landscape architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, interior designers, planning consultants, builders and subcontractors to name a few). This might cover advice on materials to be used, to time scales with the contractors and negotiating planning consents, building control and compliance requirements.

Architects and their expertise can also save you time by conducting site visits, meeting with local planners, submitting drawings for planning consent, dealing with tree preservation orders or difficult builders. Plus an architect can help save you money by advising on financial matters, coming up with the best design for your budget and getting competitive building quotes.

enormous amounts of knowledge which might be gold dust.

‘Over the longer term they can make your building energy efficient and so save on running costs,’ says Cowan’s Director of Architecture, Tom Longley. A great design should also increase your property’s market value and saleability, too.

II. Preparation of plans and documents for your approval and/or planning submission.

At Cowan Architects, we can help you navigate the vagaries of obtaining planning consent. A skilled architect can interpret your requirements and present them so that they fit ‘the rules’ as laid down at national and local level. This is especially important if you’re in a conservation area, as many of our clients are, or your property has listed status. Here, the insight of professionals can make the difference between success or failure at the starting gate.

IV. Supervision (Project Management) of the building process.

Following the initial consultation, the architect will produce a fee quote for you. At Cowan Architects, we break this down into work stages as follows: I. Feasibility – putting your thoughts and ideas into sketch proposals so you can visualise and discuss your needs further.

III. Working drawings and tender documents in order to select a reliable value-formoney builder.

This can be priced on a lump sum, stage-by-stage basis, even if only as a guide for the later stages, so that you can set your budget. You do not even need to commit to the whole at the beginning but simply agree to each stage as the work progresses.

All good architects will give you a one-off consultation, and that’s really worthwhile because they may simply say that your dream cannot be done. Or they might give you a dream that you were never aware of. For a couple of hours of their time, you’ll get

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Local History Notes

The Roads of Forest Row

By Vivien Hill

© East Grinstead Museum, reproduced with their kind permission.

An intricate pattern of ancient and modern roads and paths forms the network around which the village of Forest Row has grown. Roads and paths have changed their course, destination and names over the years and intriguing histories hide under the apparent straightforward junction of A and B roads at the village’s centre.

The A22, the London to Lewes road, now appears to the through traveller as a down and up with a village pinch point, but this journey was originally a difficult one. Twenty miles was once considered a reasonable day’s journey on foot or with laden pack animals and waggons. London to the coast involved overnight stops at Croydon and East Grinstead before the last leg to Lewes. Leaving East Grinstead and travelling downhill through Ashurstwood the road then dropped sharply to the marshy area of the Medway valley. Fords existed, possibly bridges, a raised “clapper” bridge for foot travellers is recorded by the ford at Pilstye, by Station Road. Only a few miles into the journey some local help to find a crossing, a smithy for a cast horseshoe or a stop for refreshment may have been welcome. Forest Row may have grown up from cottages providing these needs, for the village is a late, scattered settlement not mentioned until 1338. The buildings south of the Medway would be outside East Grinstead’s tax jurisdiction. The road then climbed over Ashdown Forest and took the smoothest route to Lewes.

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communications nationwide. Routes were taken over by profit-making trusts, resurfaced, and tolls collected at gates at either end. Originally sharp pikes prevented horses jumping over these gates. Forest Row was turnpiked in 1723, perhaps encouraging the building of Kidbrooke in 1733. Charles Abbot, buying Kidbrooke in 1803, became Speaker of the House of Commons and a fast road to London was necessary so to receive state papers promptly though the road still had its dangers. Wall Hill could take an hour to climb and in 1801 the mail cart was robbed of £12,000 as it toiled up from Lewes, the robbers later being caught and hanged at the scene of the crime.

As a result the road was realigned, a gentler incline allowing horses to pull steadily with less danger of hold-ups. This is the line of the present Brambletye bends, the road now in its recognisable modern form.

The Classis Britannica, the Roman navy, apparently had jurisdiction over the valuable iron-rich Ashdown Forest area. The easiest route for the extracted iron is the line of the present Hartfield Road and this was probably used until the industry died out in the seventeenth century. Many footpaths joining Hartfield Road east of the village lead to known ironworking sites. Small farms worked the rich valley soil north of the road and river but those on the southern slope were curtailed by the Forest boundary.

Hartfield Road was also turnpiked, a parallel path beside it, avoiding the toll, came out past the tollgate.

Stones marking the exit of this parallel road survive

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in the Baptist chapel wall and the lower part of Park Crescent is built on its line. Turnpike improvements widened a short cut to London Road, the present junction with the A22. The original approach, now Lower Road, was bypassed, dwellings and workshops filling the area between the two.

The railway, arriving in the 1860s increased trade and population and some small farms on the south side of the road were sold for building, the many springs providing a water supply. Former lanes to the forest became residential. The north side remained largely undeveloped until piped water was available.

Later, during WWII Hartfield Road was reinforced with concrete and the contours partly levelled out allowing swift movement of tanks from forest training grounds.

Aerial photography undertaken by Ivan Margery between the wars revealed ancient trackways, many of which have since been verified by archaeology.

From the Thames to Cansiron one such track forded the river at Pilstye and crossed the fields to the southwest. Over Lower Road it rose up Anna’s Hill beside Bishops and in front of the village hall to either join the main road or cross it to become Priory Road. There seems never to have been a priory, but a Mr. Prior of the farm near the present Greenfields school. The road has had many names over a proven six hundred years of existence. Nearer the village successive owners of Kidbrooke channelled the Kid into runnels and conduits beside Priory Road and under London Road to join the Medway, draining the marshy area.

Narrow access roads to the small industries on the

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forest such as Post Horn Lane, Chapel Lane and Upper Close still largely follow their original lines and are now filled with housing either built as small speculative ventures or as pre- and post-war housing for the increased population. The once bright red roofs of Upper Close, developed between the wars, gave it the nickname of “Chinatown”. More outlying farms, such as Rystwood, sold with larger plots grew more slowly.

Kidbrooke needed many repairs when bought by Michael Hall School in 1948. Land nearest the village was eventually sold, being laid out as Freshfield Bank, road names all having a connection with past owners of Kidbrooke. The approach roads to the house changed often over time but frequently came out at Highgate, once a separate hamlet.

Widow Tomsett’s land allocation at the forest bank filled with small industries dependent on wood, heather, bracken and stone taken from Ashdown.

Highgate’s many roads and twittens were used by the broom and hoop makers who earned their living here, taking the finished products down to the railway.

The village square gradually was encroached upon by nineteenth century buildings on the western side, the church was built and the Swan frontage extended into the roadway. The village hall replaced the smithy, the seventeenth century buildings to the east were successively pulled down to develop Hillside. A long workshop was constructed at the top of Hartfield Road. For through travellers this pinch point slows them down but they still travel along routes that have been used for hundreds or thousands of years.

We will donate £1 for every Competition entry to the Forest Row village hall roof fund!*

For a chance of winning a pair of tickets, answer this question:

Who wrote the original story on which this musical is based?

To enter our competition email: info@ashdownforestliving. co.uk or write to: Chequer Mead Competition, 33 Morton Road, West Sussex, RH19 4AF. Closing Date: 12th September. * One entry per household.

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& Steam Trains Walk High Weald and Ashdown Forest: 10.4 km / 6.4 miles

A wonderful walk which starts with the easy-walking Sussex Border Path and goes on to explore woodland and summer meadows peppered with orchids. The route passes within waving distance of steam trains (when running) and there’s a lovely pub at the halfway point.

Start: Horsted Keynes Rural Car Park.

Grid ref: TQ 383 281 Total ascent: 598 ft/182 m Parking: Horsted Keynes Rural Car Park beside Horsted Club and post office.

Public transport: Not easy Terrain: Long stretches of hard-surfaced border path plus grassy paths. Some grassy paths between points 4 and 6 are unclear, but the detailed directions should help.

Refreshments: The Sloop Inn in Freshfield, T 01444 831219, or a picnic whilst watching the trains. The Green Man in Horsted Keynes, T 01825 790656.

OS map Explorer 135: Ashdown Forest S TQ 383 282 Exit the car park past Horsted Club.

Turn right along the signed West Sussex Border Path.

Walk straight ahead along Wyatts Lane, following the West Sussex Border Path. Pass a selection of large houses and stay on the signed West Sussex Border Path, ignoring a couple of footpaths which join it.

Walk straight ahead through Sandpits Wood. (Ignore the footpath leading right.) The path emerges from woods to run beside a field. Follow the signed Border Path left and go right at the tarmac driveway, still following the Border Path. Walk up a short, sharp slope. Veer left on the signed grassy bridleway, leaving the Tarmac lane.

The Bluebell Railway, a standard gauge passenger line, has survived a some-what chequered battle for preservation. Back in 1882, the original Lewes and East Grinstead Railway Line was opened to much celebration, aiming to provide ‘four passenger trains each way daily … with through connections at East Grinstead to London, and stop at Sheffield Bridges, Newick and West Hoathly’ (according to the Schedule of the 1877 and 1878 Act). Why were such rural spots chosen for stations by this private company? Perhaps because the promoters included not only the Earl of Sheffield of Sheffield Park but also the wellheeled residents of Newick Park and Reeden. A line extension to East Grinstead is to open in 2013.

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public footpath towards Butchers Barn. This tarmac path continues for some time. Pass Keepers Cottage and soon head left to leave the tarmac path, cross the stile marked by a yellow arrow and to follow the foot-path through the meadow.

3 TQ 397 263 At the signpost, walk left. In the top (east) corner of the field, there’s an unsigned gap in the hedge. Go right, through this gap, cutting through to the foot-path. Walk away from the stile, (without crossing it), following the Border Path along the fence. At the corner of the field, cross the stile and follow the yellow arrow right.

Follow the path through the coppiced woods and then along the fence. Look out for some wonderful fox-glove displays. Follow the signed footpath ahead.

You may hear the odd toot! Pass a house and again, at the signpost, walk straight ahead along the path.

Pass Kingswood Cottage.

It’s always a pleasure to come across a wildflower meadow when you’re out walking. Once, such meadows were associated with clearings in woods but, as humans began to clear land for farming, these grasslands became more widespread and were commonly used for grazing and harvesting hay. In recent years, traditional hay meadows and pastures have suffered from extremes: either being ‘left-alone’ or intensively managed with many grasslands having been treated and re-sown.

4 TQ 395 253 Cross Ketche’s Lane and follow the footpath opposite. There’s a broken sign here and a rough fork, but the path you want immediately curves to the right and wends its way through the woods. Emerge into an open field. Walk straight ahead as signed by the arrow. The path is unclear.

Head for the right side of the circular thicket where you may spot a hide, pond and, most importantly, a signpost sticking up out of the ferns. Keep walking diagonally right through the long grass. Reach a post in the hedge and see the Bluebell Railway signal post in the distance. There’s a copse on your right hiding another wooden waymarker. Walk ahead along the

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track between field and copse. As you approach the track, veer right along the path to pass through a tunnel beneath the railway.

There are several types of grassland, each characterised by its soil type: neutral, acidic or chalk. This soil type affects which plants will grow, which in turn affects the wildlife the land supports, such as butterflies.

This particular meadow is a ‘neutral grassland’ associated with clay and silty soils. Look out for the common spotted orchid, abundant here in summer months. Neutral grassland tends to attract butterflies such as common blue and meadow brown. (The following walks all pass through chalk grassland: A Downland Meander to Cissbury Ring; Coast, Wilderness and Forest; Wolstonbury: A Significant Hill; Ditchling Beacon in both Downland Doddle and Windmills, Wildlife, Flint and Farming).

5 TQ 391 247 Go through a gate and walk straight ahead along an unclear grassy path. Head right across a stream and through a gate. Follow the Sussex Border Path straight ahead. Cross the footbridge. Head for the farm buildings. Go across the gated footbridge and walk straight ahead to cross the stile. Head diagonally left across one last field.

6 TQ 385 244 Walk left to visit The Sloop pub.

To continue on, walk right along the road. Look for the stile beside the metal gate. Cross this and climb across a second and a third stile on your left. Keep walk-ing left to go straight up the field to the railway bridge.

Cross the bridge, following the signed footpath straight ahead between two fences. At the next sign, walk left across the footbridge. Head up diagonally left across the field following the signpost. Pass another signpost

at the corner of the hedged property. Keep following the signed footpath until you reach the road.

This is a good vantage point for the Bluebell Railway. There are hammer ponds and forge sites near the Bluebell. Iron was made in the Weald from pre-Roman times until the beginning of the 19th century.

7 TQ 386 255 Head right very briefly along the road. After Town Place, walk left through the kissing gate and follow the footpath. At the end of the field, go through another couple of kissing gates, passing Bluebell Vine-yard Estates on your right. Walk on through the woods, along the side of a meadow. Enter some more woods. Turn left when you hit the footpath at the signpost.

for the Sussex Border Path leading left to retrace your earlier footsteps back to Horsted Keynes.

Sussex Walks is a collection of 20 circular walks, between 3.5 and 12 miles (5 and 19km) in length that explore the length and breadth of the county of Sussex. Written by local author Deirdre Huston, the walks feature Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps, easy-to-follow directions, and information on local history, wildlife, refreshments and terrain. We are offering Readers the book with a 20% Discount, enter code: ASHDOWN1 on the website: www.v-outdoor.co.uk

8 TQ 390 265 Reach Freshfield Lane, opposite Latchetts. Walk right. Look

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World In Need International

By Hilary Mackelden

Nestled on the edge of Ashdown Forest, Crowborough is a pleasant place to bring up a family and give them the best possible start in life.

With its pretty housing estates and green open spaces, it seems a world away from the shanty towns and slums of Africa and India.

But these places are inextricably linked to Crowborough, because it is in our leafy town that you’ll find the Head Office of World In Need International, a Christian charity dedicated to ensuring some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people on earth fulfil their potential, and that a child living in a one roomed shack in Kenya or on the streets of Delhi has the opportunity to live the life they deserve.

World In Need was started in 1991

by Crowborough based couple, Ron and Nancy George. They saw the way that Saddam Hussein treated the Kurdish people in Northern Iraq, persecuting them,

keeping them down, even killing them. Ron and Nancy set up World In Need to try to redress the balance and give the Kurdish people hope. Throughout the last twenty two years, the charity has maintained a presence in that area. Through the days of the nofly zones, the war and its dreadful aftermath, they have never abandoned the Kurdish people.

From this beginning, World In Need grew and established bases in some twenty one other countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Kenya, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Nigeria, to name just a few. In each place, the strategy was the same: to enable local people to help themselves and their community, using aid to further education and development and start to build a future where aid will no longer be needed. It’s a tall order, but not an impossible one.

The small team at Head Office

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could not do it alone, of course, and the people of Crowborough and the surrounding areas have shown themselves to be caring, compassionate and willing to share with those who have so little. Individuals sponsor children who are then able to go to school and study for careers that will lift them and their whole community out of the grinding poverty that presently keeps them down. Local businesses support World In Need in any way they can – sponsoring events, encouraging staff to take part in fundraising activities such as the London 10k run, the Dragon Boat Race at Bewl Water and sponsored walks on Ashdown Forest. Local cafe Baskervilles displays works of art created by people World In Need has helped; these paintings are then sold to raise money for the artists and their families, and the projects in their countries.

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Guides, Scouts and Sunday schools have helped and the children have proven themselves enthusiastic and imaginative in their fund raising efforts.

One successful, on-going fundraiser is Rags to Riches.

Bring your old unwanted clothes, sheets, handbags, belts and shoes to Head Office in Mill Crescent (behind the old CCA hall) and World In Need will recycle them, raising money at the same time.

From parachute jumps to stage plays, quiz nights to coffee mornings, World In Need supporters have raised funds which have been used to help those who needed it most. But of course, many people still live in abject poverty, denied chances and robbed of hope. While that is the case World In Need will be there, and they welcome any and all offers of support.

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You can find out more about what they do and how you can help by visiting their website (www. worldinneed.co.uk) or phone Head office on 01892 669834.

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Apricot Bread Pudding Recipe Serves: 4 adults Preparation time: 15 mins Cooking time: 35 mins

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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

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Some Unique Days you might want to celebrate this September with your kids!

International Literacy Day (8th) International Literacy Day has been celebrated on 8th September since 1966. Its aim is to highlight the importance of Literacy to individuals, communities and societies.

Roald Dahl’s Birthday (13th) Roald Dahl, the famous children’s author was born on 13 September 1916.

Talk Like a Pirate Day (19th) Talking like a pirate is fun! Spend the day talking like a pirate with your class… could you take part in some pirate themed lessons on September 19th each year?

World Car Free Day (22nd) Every September 22, people from around the world get together in the streets to remind the world that we don’t have to accept our car-dominated society.

European Day of Languages (26th) The European Day of Languages aims to show people across Europe how important languages are, and what fun can be had learning them.

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Here’s a delicious version of bread and butter pudding, which is quick and easy to make. It’s an ideal way to use up slightly stale bread.

1. Grease a 1 litre baking dish with ½ teaspoon of the low-fat spread.

Spread the bread with the rest of the spread, then cut each slice into triangles. Arrange them in the dish with the chopped apricots.

2. Beat together the eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Stir in the sugar, allowing a few minutes for it to dissolve. Pour over the bread. Cover and leave to soak for at least 20 minutes.

3. Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas mark 4. Uncover the pudding and bake for about 35-40 minutes, until set and golden brown.

Tip 1: If you like, prepare the pudding in advance and keep in the fridge so that it can soak for several hours before baking.

Tip 2: Use ordinary white bread instead of fruit bread and add a handful of sultanas and dried cherries or cranberries to the pudding.

Notes: This recipe has been taken from the Change4Life ‘Supermeals for under a fiver’ cookbook

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The garden at Gravetye Manor, on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, is an inspirational example of an historic garden resurgent. For fifty years Gravetye was home of William Robinson (1838-1935) one of the most remarkable gardeners and most prolific of garden writers of all time. Born in Ireland and a garden boy from the age of ten, Robinson came to work in the Royal Botanical Society’s garden in the Inner Circle of Regent’s Park in 1861. He used his position to travel the length and breadth of the British Isles exploring gardens, nurseries and the natural landscape and revelling in the simple charms of English cottage gardens.

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horticultural correspondent for the Chronicle, The Times and The Field at the Paris Exhibition. In 1868 came his Gleanings from French Gardens, then Parks, Promenades and Gardens of Paris in 1869 and in 1870, three more books including that for which he is most renowned, The Wild Garden.

Despite this prodigious output, in 1870 he crossed America, revelling especially in the gigantic forests of the western mountains. On the voyage back to England he determined to publish his own magazine, The Garden, and for the next fifty years The Garden and later Gardening Illustrated, provided what his friend Gertrude Jekyll described as his pulpit from which he preached his messages in favour

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of naturalistic planting, vehemently against bedding out and encouraging English gardeners to adopt French intensive gardening methods to provide cheaper food for poor people. These two immensely successful magazines brought Robinson a wide circle of friends and he drew on that circle to produce his magnum opus, The English Flower Garden, in 1883.

Throughout these frantically busybyears, with travels to southern Europe, North Africa and Madeira, Robinson lived above the offices of The Garden in Covent Garden but in his mid-forties he decided that it was time to take to the country. In 1884, at the age of 46, he acquired Gravetye Manor with its estate of 360 acres (150ha). The elegant 16th century manor house had come down the social scale to become a shabby farmhouse, surrounded by gloomy evergreens and spiky rockeries.

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hundreds of thousands of bulbs in the meadows below the house, thousands of trees, especially his beloved North American conifers, in the woodlands and developed flower, fruit and vegetable gardens around the house. Successes and failures were eloquently chronicled and illustrated in his Garden Beautiful (1907) and Gravetye Manor (1910).

On his death Robinson left most of his estate to the nation. The woodlands were transferred to the Forestry Commission but the gardens around the house suffered during and after World War II until the lease on the house was acquired by Peter Herbert in 1958.

Mr Herbert converted the house into a Country House Hotel and, from 1958 until his retirement in 2004, brought the garden back to life in a truly Robinsonian manner. A brief hiatus followed the retirement but the hotel and its gardens now have enthusiastic new owners and in summer 2010 Tom Coward came from the late Christopher Lloyd’s garden at Great Dixter to become head gardener. Tom is rapidly injecting his own enthusiastic flair into Robinson’s legacy so the garden is once more on a rapid upward trajectory.

The long and gradual accumulation of perennial weeds which beset most large gardens is being

tackled by clearing borders and using bulbs and large patches of annuals to allow bindweed to be attacked in spring and through the summer while maintaining the colourful display so necessary to please hotel visitors. Now the borders are sufficiently clean to begin introducing permanent planting once more.

The little South Garden below the main terrace is the most sheltered garden compartment, with palms, Amicia zygomeris and other marginally hardy plants exhibiting the luxuriance that Robinson advocated in his Subtropical Garden of 1870. In the Long Border below the huge terrace wall, clusters of bamboo canes have marked the worst bindweed spots so that permanent denizens of the border can be safely replanted in weed-free areas.

The walled kitchen garden, elliptical in shape to fit into the topography, once more displays a splendid array of vegetables, fruits and flowers, continuing a 140 year tradition of supplying the house with fresh produce and cut flowers. Below the walled garden a splendidly restored peach house and elegant Foster and Pearson frames, smart in their newly painted black and white trim, housed new plants in spring 2013.

Of course a key feature of Gravetye’s garden must be its wild garden. The south-facing meadow below the house, on acid greensand, has sheets of daffodils and pale blue Puschkinia libanotica in spring followed by native wild flowers in summer. In the orchard west of the main terrace new fruit trees have been underplanted with Narcissus obvallaris, fritillaries and other spring bulbs. To the north, above the house, on a ridge of acid clay, is an area of unusual shrubs and trees underplanted with a succession of flowers from scillas and fritillaries in spring to montbretias and Robinson’s much-loved ‘starworts’ (Michaelmas daisies) in autumn.

Gravetye has obviously taken on a new lease of life.

Even the fastidious William Robinson would have approved.

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The Conservators now own six Exmoor Ponies which complement our stock of 300 Hebridean sheep, and 9 Galloway cattle. The 1.75 miles/3km Exmoor pony also known as the Celtic pony is a native breed and populated Exmoor before humans. With their thick winter coats they are able to endure harshcross winters.the Theyroad are sturdy and make into Ridge From Linton’s car park (with care) Tuesday 1st Oct – The Swan, Forest Row. excellent for children ride as well used as work car park ponies (summer only).to Walk out as ofbeing the rear past a seatEnglish onto Food, 35 seats available. To book horses .They are grazing safely on the forest away from the roads. call:on 01342 822318. aWe grass path and in about 50m turn left onto a ride.

Remain also have a bullock called Twinkle who will become a large this gently ride, ignoring another that bears off 7th Oct – Tarana, Lingfield. Indian Monday Galloway bulldescending in time. & Thai food, 200 seats available. To book right, for about 400m.

So now we have got over the heat wave and the summer holidays call: 01342 832222. are here the Forest is busy . The Forest Centre ‘s Pop Up Café open Tuesday 15th Oct – Mediterranean Cuisine On both left andduring right the areholidays linear quarries, only at weekends is very popular. We also Bistro & Pizzeria, East Grinstead, 35 seats have filled the Ashdown Forest Holiday Club which is supervised by two now with scrub and trees.

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quarries dot the Forest landscape and history and archaeology of the Forest. provided stone for roads. Typical heathland Rangers areas outnightjar, on the Forest controlling birds such stonechat, treeinvasive pipit weeds, pulling Rawort and spraying Gautheria Japanese Knot weed. 4 and woodlark usually breed inand this area and bridges have been recently replaced thanks to the dry weather the ride edges in particular are one of the and we have built new reveted causeway at Elisons pond. We have best on the in Sussex) nowplaces completed rideForest repairs(indeed and bracken mowing is in full swing. toSussex see, the in May, the yellow flowers of the cuckoo tagged on Ashdown Forest has been tracked to small shrub, pettythe whin.

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Local History Notes

Katherine Lewkenor

By Dorothy Hatswell

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any of you may have spent Sunday evenings as I recently did watching the BBC’s adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novel, ‘The White Queen’ based on the life of the queen consort Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV. I have only just discovered that there is a connection between the Queen and East Grinstead!

The connection is made through Katherine Lewkenor and her two husbands for whom there is a brass memorial in St Swithun’s Church, East Grinstead.

It was originally fixed to a marble memorial in the previous church building which collapsed in 1785.

The marble was destroyed but the brass figures and inscription were rescued from the ruins and fixed to the wall in the present church when it was first built.

The inscription beneath the three figures is in English, but difficult to read. The free, modern translation is: ‘Under this marble monument lies Dame Katherine Grey, daughter of Thomas, Lord Scales. She married first Sir Thomas Grey and secondly Richard Lewkenor esq.

Katherine Grey

In the year she died, Katherine and her husband Richard Lewkenor “gave certain Alms-Houses adjoining East Grinstead Common for the use of poor Persons, Anno Domini 1505.”

Although Katherine is described here as the daughter of Thomas de Scales, a Norfolk landowner, in his will he leaves his estates to his only daughter, Elizabeth de Scales. The presumption is that, while acknowledging Katherine as a daughter, because she was illegitimate she couldn’t directly inherit Richard Woodville

Lord Thomas de Scales

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of Brambletye. She was one of the ladies to Elizabeth, wife of blessed memory to Edward IV and afterward to Queen Elizabeth, wife unto our sovereign lord King Henry VII which passed out of this transitory world the 6th day of June 1505 and the same Katherine and Richard her husband founded, endowed adorned this present church of East Grinstead to the laud and honour with diverse ornaments and an almshouse for three persons whose souls may have on them thy mercyful compassion.’

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his wealth. However, he had arranged a good marriage for her to Sir Thomas Grey. It was after his death in battle, that she married Richard Lewkenor Esq. of Brambletye, whose family were well respected in Sussex. They often filled the role of High Sheriff for the county. This position was held by Richard on four different occasions and he also became MP for East Grinstead in 1472, a position he obtained for several years. Incidentally during the reign of Richard III, he was called upon to “summon men of Kent and Sussex to besiege Bodiam Castle, seized by the rebels” which belonged to his father.

Going back to Katherine, her half sister, the legitimate Elizabeth de Scales had married into the Howard family (a powerful Norfolk dynasty) before being widowed.

Elizabeth subsequently married Anthony Woodville. Anthony’s sister, yet another Elizabeth (soon to become the Queen consort) had married Sir John Grey, a relative of Katherine’s first husband! He’d died fighting on the side of Henry VI against Edward IV at the second battle of St. Albans in 1461 – see our simple family tree to help guide you through...

Woodvilles rapidly changed their allegiance from Henry to Edward, from the House of Lancaster to the House of York. The York’s white rose was now in the ascendent, as were the fortunes of the Woodvilles.

Along with many other members of the extended Woodville family, Katherine Lewkenor was invited to the court where she served Elizabeth Woodville, who was now Queen of England, the consort of Edward IV. Even after Elizabeth’s death in 1492, Katherine remained at court. She became a lady in waiting to Elizabeth’s daughter, (yet another) Elizabeth of York, now married to Henry VII. It was this marriage which finally united the warring houses of Lancaster and York into the Tudor dynasty, symbolised by the Tudor Rose which incorporated both the white and red roses.

Katherine finally returned to Sussex and spent her last days at Brambletye, her second husband’s seat. She died in 1505 and was interred in St Swithuns Church, where the memorial mentioned earlier was erected. In her will she asked to be buried in “the chauncell of the north yle in the parisshe church of Estgrensted”.

She also requested that a brass figure depicting herself in a winding sheet or shroud, be placed between figures of her two husbands. The stipulation of being shown in a shroud for some reason was not carried out.

Katherine is shown wearing early Tudor costume.

Through her daughter, Elizabeth Woodville is the ancestor of every English monarch since Henry VII. And Katherine Lewkenor, who faithfully served her, was a very illustrious former resident of this area.

It was during these turbulent days of the English throne that Elizabeth Grey (nee Woodville) took it upon herself to ask for an audience with Edward IV, to plead for her late husband’s lands to be returned to her two sons. Edward fell in love with her and, in spite of the fact they were on opposite sides of the battle for the throne of England, secretly married her.

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What’s On: September

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Friday 30th August to Sunday 1st September

all levels of rider and horse or pony. New this year, is the leading rein course for younger riders and dog walk course. All riders, horses and dogs are invited to wear something red on the day! At St Helena Farm, Plumpton Green, BN7 3DH. For further details please contact Debbie Medlicott, medlicott@btinternet.com, 01825 790397 or 07801 103527.

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Until 2nd September Nymans Explorer Trail: Wind in the Willows. After some holiday fun this summer? Come take our Wind in the Willows themed trail through the garden and enjoy a visit to our exhibition of illustrations by E H Shephard. Explorers on the trail will receive a map to help them hunt down and join in the adventures of Badger, Ratty, Toad and Mole. Tel: 01444 405250.

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Sunday 8th September Cats Protection Car Boot Sale, 10am - 1pm. Set up starts from 8am. Our cafe will be open for food and drinks, cost: £10 per car or £12 per small van. National Cat Centre, Chelwood Gate, RH17 7TT. tel: 01825 741330 email: ncac@cats.org.uk.

Sunday 8th September

Dave Brooker Photography Exhibition: Bewl Water (jointly with Nick Ryan from Tonbridge Camera Club), open daily from 9am.

Fracktured Future - A talk by Ian R Crane. Come along and join us for a fact filled afternoon to discover everything you need to know about fracking. Bring along sandwiches, scones and cakes for high tea at 5pm. Ian R Crane is an ex-oilfield executive who now lectures, writes and broadcasts on the geo-political issues. 3:30pm - 7pm. The Village Hall, The Square, Forest Row, Rh18 5ES, Call: Sarah Charlton on 01342 825598.

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Hartfield Fete and Flower & Dog Show - 12 Noon Town Croft Hartfield. Free entry to the Croft and Flower Tent but schedules lucky programmes and raffle tickets sold in advance. Come and join us for a fun-packed day with all the fun of the fair with many stalls, side shows and attractions for adults with professional entertainment and races laid on for children. The dog show and famous doggy dash are always popular. Scrumptious teas served with the usual Hartfield hospitality. In the evening a Family Barn Dance begins at 7.30pm with food served from 6.30pm. Tickets including food available from the Anchor Pub, Hartfield Stores and Perryhill Orchard.

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A fundraising day in aid of Evelina Children’s Hospital, St Thomas’s London.There will be a display of both 5 inch and 7 1/4 inch gauge engines with trains rides available all day on Riley’s railway. The Lavender lines very own standard gauge steam engine Austin 1 will be in steam providing steam train rides all day and 10% of all profits made on the day will go towards St Thomas hospital. Stalls, Stands, Steam engines, Refreshment’s and Snacks.

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Sunday 8th September Heart of Sussex Sponsored Horse Ride in aid of The British Heart Foundation. A very popular sponsored ride at St Helena Farm in Plumpton Green. The course will be 10 miles, over beautiful Sussex countryside, with optional cross country jumps and suitable for 36 • September 2013 • Ashdown Forest Living

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What’s On: September

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Village Market: Our 6th successful year of this friendly local produce and crafts market. Do come along and try tempting cakes, cheese, meat, savouries, pickles and lots more. Bring and buy garden produce stall. Cafe with hot snacks. Tombola.

Chelwood Gate Village Hall & Marquees, Beaconsfield Road, 10am – 2pm.

Voices for Hospices, Mozart Concert in aid of St. Peter & St. James Hospice. The Parikian Orchestra and Chorus, Conductor – Levon Parikian. Ave Verum, Overture to Magic Flute, Clarinet Concerto – Soloist Stuart Eminson. Requiem: Soprano - Elizabeth Roberts, Contralto – Rachel Acworth, Tenor – Thomas Elwin, Bass – David Hadden. Tickets £12 on sale at St. Peter & St. James Shop, 94 High Street, Uckfield, Five Ash Down Post Office. Or from Mrs. Waddington, Hadlow Lodge, Hadlow Down, TN22 4HT, with s.a.e. and cheque payable to St. Peter & St. James Hospice. At 7:30pm, St. Margaret the Queen, Buxted Park, TN22 4AY.

Saturday 21st September NSPCC Hobbies and Crafts Fair, 10.30am-4pm at Clair Hall, Haywards Heath. A variety of hand made articles to buy plus short demonstrations. Teas, coffee and cakes plus raffle. There may be stalls to hire, call Sue Spooner on 01444 831602.

Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September Literary links to Groombridge Place celebrated.

Come and celebrate 200 Years of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’.Watch costumed interpreters perform the roles of some of our countries favourite literary characters around the Gardens and Enchanted Forest of Groombridge Place. The interpreters from ‘Past Pleasures’ will use authentic costumes, storytelling, voice projection, singing and dancing skills to allow visitors to experience life in a bygone age. For more information visit www.groombridgeplace.com.

Saturday 28th September Open Day at Tinkers Park including: The Great Bush Narrow Gauge Railway, Miniature passenger carrying railway, Traction Engine Rides, Working Exhibits, Organ Museum, Historic vehicles, Light Refreshments, Veteran and Vintage Cars, Traction Engines, Steam Rollers, Fair Organs, Vintage Stationary Engines, Historic Commercial Vehicles.

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Healthy walks are starting in Chelwood Gate A new free healthy walk will start in Chelwood Gate in September. The first walk takes place on Saturday 7 September 2013, 11.00-12.00am, setting off from the Cats Protection Visitor Centre. The walk will run every first Saturday of the month. The walks are free and last no longer than an hour. There is no need to book, just turn up.

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Nutley Windmill Viewings Wednesday is the regular working day and Friends of Nutley Windmill are happy to show visitors around the mill for about 11 – 3pm. Just north of Nutley Village, there is a steep right turn off the A22 onto Crowborough Road, in about a mile on the Forest there is a car park signed FRIENDS. Park there, at the rear there is a ride, walk down this to the left in about 5 minutes, there is a path to the left, a sign is nailed to a tree, follow this path for about for 5 minutes to the Windmill, postcode: TN22 3HY. For further information pop into the Friends of Nutley Windmill Charity Shop, Post Office Square, High Street, Uckfield. 01825 766958.

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01444 401228

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Kingsmead Care Centre Longfield Manor Rapkyns Care Home Upper Mead

01403 265335 01403 786832 01403 265096 01273 492870

01403 242278

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To find out more about our homes and the services we offer, contact: Corrine Wallace Head of Operational Care Services

01403 217338 corrine.wallace@sussexhealthcare.co.uk

www.sussexhealthcare.co.uk

Clemsfold House Forest Lodge Horncastle Care Centre Horncastle House

01403 790312 01825 712514 01342 813910 01342 810219

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