Southern Transit, a company based at the Upper Beeding butterfly sanctuary, is introducing a new bus service between Shoreham and Horsham that will run every weekend over the period 26th July to 7th September this year. There’s a stop in Small Dole, buses run every couple of hours, and the usual fare concessions apply. Click the map above to download a timetable [PDF].
Update: The Argus reports here.
A talk by Nick Steer to the Henfield History Group on Tuesday 10th June at 8:00pm in the Free Church Hall, Henfield.
Henfield Library, from Monday May 12th to Friday May 16th, 10:00am–5:00pm each day. Click the banner to see more.
Saturday 10th May 7:30am–1:00pm, starting at Bramber Castle. Turn up; pay; walk, run or ride. Maps and marshals provided. Click the screengrab above for more details.
The LAMBS website has another interesting article, this one on the implications of the Mayfield development for the regional hydrology:
“Every time it rains there would be massive floods which could wipe out Shoreham,” says Frank Preston who worked on the river for 30 years, as a Flood Defence Agent for Southern Water Authority. “The extra impervious run-off from houses and roads, that sort of thing, would just overpower the river.”
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John Donaldson, former Operations Manager for the Environment Agency, with 35 years of experience in the water industry, says he was “horrified” when he heard of the plan. “The impact of the drainage system and surface water run-off will be a nightmare,” he says. “We can hardly manage the run-off that we’ve got at the present time. There’d be even greater flooding without doubt – to land, to property, to road systems and transport – everything. The upland catchment already has enough water in the meadows and fields – we cannot take any more water.”
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[Peter Haworth Booth:] “The implications of Mayfield are enormous. I think a lot of houses just won’t be habitable. I don’t know what the quantities of water are but the speed of the run-off is going to cause mega problems from here down to Bramber.”
Read the rest at the LAMBS website.
Dr. Phil Atkinson of the British Trust for Ornithology is giving a talk entitled “Follow that cuckoo and other stories” in the Garden Room at The Henfield Hall at 7:30pm on Friday 28th February. The talk will cover the use of such things as geolocators and satellite tracking which have enabled us to learn much more about the movements of certain species of migrating bird once they have left our shores.
[Free for members of Henfield Birdwatch, £3.00 on the door for nonmembers.]
