In today’s video, I make the ascent over the Southdowns in search of a Triangulation Station, or Trig Point, as they are often called. I am above Sompting, in West Sussex, heading north towards Steyning to see the winter scenery and wide open farm land. I am charged with excitement for the year ahead. PLEASE […]
I have whizzed out to Warnham, close to Horsham in West Sussex, to see how wet the land is. It is wet. I have not gone very far and merely traipsed around the local fields to take advantage of the lovely blue sky and Sussex landscape. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded […]
The lovely Julia and I are in the quaint village of Rusper, just north of Horsham. We take a walk around the church and then along the high street. I used to live in Horsham as a younger man, but never visited this nearby village. Today I am delighted to see all the old timber […]
Who knew there was a Motte and Bailey Castle in Horsham in West Sussex. Not me, and I lived in Horsham as a boy. The lovely Julia and I pop along to a piece of wasteland in the North East of the town to discover the old Norman defence, where soon after the invasion of […]
I am back in the rural village of Duncton for the last time in this mini series, putting the community and its heritage under the microscope. John Robbins takes me on a journey following the course of the downland spring water; the reason for the village to have been settled by the Neolithic people and […]
I have gone to look at the place I was brought up and the wonderful fields and footpaths I use to play on. Horsham was in the 1970s a small and growing commuter town in West Sussex. Roll forward 50 years and, like much of this country and Sussex in particular, the drive to gobble […]