Category Archives: Devil’s Dyke

3000 years in 3 hours

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Saddlescombe in the Bronze Age
Saddlescombe Farm, Sunday 8th February 2015, 10:00am — 1:00pm, all tickets £3.00, children and dogs on leads welcome, slightly challenging walk, advance booking not needed.

This walk starts at Devil’s Dyke and gives you an opportunity to discover an ancient downland farm and its surroundings. Saddlescombe Farm has seen over 1000 years of history and still retains many of its old buildings, including the donkey well and 17th century barn. The surrounding downland holds even greater allure with over 3000 years of stories to tell. There will a break at the Hiker’s Rest tearoom at Saddlescombe before the return walk to Devil’s Dyke.

More information: Graham Wellfare, 01273 857712, graham.wellfare@nationaltrust.org.uk

The BBC to film Mayfield — update

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Mayfield on The One Show
Look out for the story on LAMBS’ battle against Mayfield Market Towns to be broadcast on The One Show tomorrow evening from 7:00pm.

The One Show was filming in the locality yesterday looking at Mayfields’ proposals and the wall of opposition from local people. Andy Kershaw and the film crew began at The Royal Oak in Wineham just after breakfast where they spoke to leafleting volunteers before moving to Twineham to interview a local land owner. By lunchtime they were up on Devil’s Dyke talking to LAMBS and the CPRE and then on to Haywards Heath for comments from Mid Sussex District Council and a spokesman from Mayfields.

Fungal Foray

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The Devil's Dyke fungi hunt - part 1
Join mycologist Martin Allinson for a day of recording as many species of fungi as possible across Newtimber Hill on Friday 3rd October from 9:45am to 3:00pm. Wear suitable clothing and bring lunch. Tea and cake will be served upon return to Saddlescombe. Supervised children are welcome. Booking essential. Slightly more information here.

A barren, flat land

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SDNPA Discovery Map filtered by viewpoints
If you click the image above you will be taken to the SDNPA’s “Discovery Map” of the National Park set to display all the viewpoints. As you will immediately discover, there are no viewpoints in the National Park. Obviously, that’s because the South Downs, like the Netherlands, is completely flat. Apart from the hyperbolically named Alice Holt Forest, there are no woods either. There are no art galleries, no gardens and no vineyards. If you are consulting this map in order to “Find out what the National Park has to offer!”, the answer from the Midhurst box-tickers is clear: very little.

GJMG

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?

Rave on (and on)

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Rave on and on
The Argus reports:

Sussex Police stopped two raves overnight on Friday into Saturday morning and a further two Saturday night into Sunday morning. This crackdown comes just weeks after Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne called for a review into how the police force deals with raves after they failed to stop a 2000 strong event at Devil’s Dyke. ..

Officers were called around 10:00pm on Saturday to Wivelsfield near Burgess Hill as the rave was being set up and people were arriving. ..

At 12:40am on Sunday morning another rave was stopped at Stanmer Park in Brighton where 50 people had attended with more people attending the location. Police attended, seized the sound equipment and arrested three men. ..

On Saturday night at around 10:00pm police were alerted to a large rave being set up in Falmer. Officers attended and arrested six men. ..

A further small rave was also broken up in Rogate, near Petersfield, at 3:00am where approximately 60 people were in attendance. No arrests were made.