Wealden Walks

Pelhams, Parks and Poachers

8 Miles

4.5 Hours

Start: Laughton Post Office situated at the junction of the B2124, Church Lane and Shortgate Lane, BN8 6PG

The buckle badge of the Pelham family can be seen at many locations on this walk around Laughton and Halland. The walk takes in two of the family’s many mansions, various hunting parks (the poachers ...

The Village in the Middle

6.5 Miles

3.5 Hours

Start: Laughton Post Office situated at the junction of the B2124, Church Lane and Shortgate Lane, BN8 6PG

The buckle badge of the Pelham family can be seen at many locations on this walk around Laughton and Halland. The family gradually appropriated huge areas of land for their two mansions and their associated ...

The Tower in the Marsh

4.5 Miles

2.5 Hours

Start: Laughton Shop and Post Office situated at the junction of the B2124, Church Lane and Shortgate Lane, BN8 6PG

The buckle badge of the Pelham family can be seen at many locations on this walk around Laughton. However, at Laughton church, the Pelham coat of arms is shared with that of another family, the ...

The Lords and the yeoman

8 Miles

4.5 Hours

Start: Eridge Green car park, off Eridge Road (A26), Eridge Green, TN3 9JU.

The Neville/Abergavenny family dominates the history of the northern end of Rotherfield parish. Each house in the estate village of Eridge carries the family coat of arms, whilst surrounding the family home of Eridge Castle ...

The butcher, the baker and the clothing maker

3.5 Miles

2 Hours

Start: Old Heathfield Church, School Hill, Old Heathfield, TN21 9AH.

In 1260, the Diocese of Chichester made a survey of its huge estates across Sussex. By good fortune, this dating (and the document’s survival) are perfect material to illustrate the evolution of the woodland pasture ...

Hogges, Pig Iron and Pygmies

5 Miles

3 Hours

Start: Buxted Church, Buxted Park, off A272, Buxted, TN22 4AY

“Master Hogge and his son John. They did cast the first can-non.” This (dreadful) couplet commemorates the technological breakthrough made by Ralph Hogg in 1543 when he cast the first one-piece iron cannons to be ...

The Moving Village

3 Miles

3 Hours

Start: Buxted Church, Buxted Park, off A272, Buxted TN22 4AY

Starting this walk today at Buxted Church, it is immediately apparent that the building stands in isolation in Buxted Park. However, such isolation is far from glorious but represents the final phase of one man’s ...

Art for Art’s Sake

2.5 Miles

1.5 Hours

Start: Chiddingly Church, Church Lane, Chiddingly, BN8 6HE

The visit to Chiddingly by the famous artist Pablo Picasso in 1950 is the inspiration for this short walk around the Chiddingly area, including some classical church sculpture, a famous artist’s house and the pub ...