Infobox UK place official name Ditchling country England region South East England static image Image ... shire county East Sussex Ditchling is a village and civil parish in the Lewes district Lewes District ... Park the order confirming the establishment of the park was signed in Ditchling. ref cite web ... to the south and Lodge Hill to the north. Ditchling Beacon , one of the highest points on the South Downs, overlooks the village. Ditchling Common , north of the village, is the source of the eastern ... The history of Ditchling starts properly in History of Anglo Saxon England Saxon times Citation needed ..., but Ditchling is first recorded in 765 as Dicelinga in a grant by King Alduuf of land bordering that of Ditchling ... by William de Warenne. The Domesday book mentions a church and a mill in Ditchling and the population ... in Ditchling was an important centre for Baptists from the wider area, whose records and memorandum .... In January 2007, Ditchling featured in a five piece BBC Documentary entitled Storyville A Very English Village . This was filmed, produced and directed by a Ditchling resident, but the series itself came under criticism from local residents. Ditchling has a number of establishments to offer ... Horse and the cafe eatery Ditchling Tea Rooms previously known as Dolly s Pantry . It has a two ... Sites of Special Scientific Interest within the parish of Ditchling. Ditchling Common is of biological ...?sssi id 1002188 title Natural England SSSI Ditchling Common accessdate 5 October 2008 publisher ... in the west, passing through many parishes including Ditchling, to Lewes in the East. This site ..., the sculptor and letter cutter, came to Ditchling in 1907 with his apprentice Joseph Cribb and was soon ... in Ditchling, Ditchling St Margaret s Church of England Primary School . This is a voluntary controlled ... Meeting House of 1740 is used by Unitarians. seealso List of places of worship in Lewes district Ditchling ... Volume 7. Parishes Ditchling last Salzman first L. F. ed year 1940 work Victoria County History of Sussex ... more details
Infobox SSSI image Image Ditchling Common.JPG 220px Taken in the winter showing the profusion of ferns name Ditchling Common aos East Sussex interest Biological gridref gbmappingsmall TQ335183 latitude 50.949 longitude 0.099 area convert 63.6 ha abbr on notifydate Start date 1966 enref 1002188 Ditchling Common once the King s land as part of the Saxon Manor, is now a Country Park designated as such in 1974 north of Ditchling and lies between Haywards Heath and Lewes to the east of Burgess Hill in West Sussex . It covers an area of convert 188 acre km2 and can be found at map reference TQ337181. The common is very popular with walkers and particularly dog walkers, partially due to its proximity to the southeastern outskirts of Burgess Hill. There is a sizeable car park, although this becomes difficult to use in poor weather. The country park trail is a mile long 0.5 km and passes through oak trees, grassland and an area of scrub. There are some willow trees in the scrubland, a lake and a stream. Birdlife in the park includes stonechat s, linnet s, woodpecker s, chiffchaff s, blackcap s and tit s. Visible at the northern end of the common is Jacob s Post . The post marks the spot where the body of an itinerent peddlar, Jacob Harris, was displayed after he was hanged in 1734 for the murder of Richard Miles. Image Ditchling Common Pond.jpg thumb left A view of the lake in January. The trail is marked by purple arrows on posts and takes about 40 minutes to complete. In wet weather stout footwear is recommended as the Weald Clay Weald clay in the area gets very waterlogged. The lake is well used by local fishermen who fish for carp , perch and Rutilus roach . To fish here, an Environment Agency rod licence and a permit is needed. References div class references small cite paper title SSSI Citation &mdash Ditchling Common publisher Natural England url http www.english nature.org.uk citation citation photo 1002188.pdf format PDF accessdate 2008 10 26 div SSSI East Sussex ... more details
Infobox mountain name Ditchling Beacon photo D Beacon N from Summit .jpg photo caption Northward view from the summit of Ditchling Beacon, looking towards Hassocks and Burgess Hill . 27 October 2006. elevation m 248 elevation ref prominence m 213 prominence ref parent peak Leith Hill listing Marilyn hill Marilyn location South Downs , England coordinates coord 50 54 02 N 0 06 25 W region GB scale 25000 grid ref UK TQ331130 topo Ordnance Survey OS Landranger 198 Image D Beacon S along Road .jpg thumb right View from just south of the summit, looking towards the eastern side of Brighton . The road is named Ditchling Road at this point Image D Beacon NE from Summit .jpg thumb right View from the summit towards the north east Image D Beacon West to Wolstonbury .jpg thumb left Westward view from part way up Ditchling Beacon north face , showing Wolstonbury Hill. Ditchling Down is in the foreground Ditchling Beacon is the third highest point on the South Downs in south east England , behind Butser ... just south of the East Sussex village of Ditchling and to the north east of the city of Brighton , it is the highest point in the county of East Sussex. A road runs from Ditchling up and across the northern ... of Ditchling village and takes the name Ditchling Road once the summit is reached and the descent ... owned sites on the South Downs was introduced. From this point, Ditchling Road descends through open ... centre to Ditchling Beacon, via Ditchling Road, since 2002. Route 79, often operated using ... slopes towards Brighton, Ditchling and other nearby villages such as Westmeston and Clayton, Sussex ... Lane. From here, access can be gained to several paths and bridleways leading up to Ditchling ... of plants can be found on Ditchling Beacon, especially during the summer. Flowers and herbs suited ... Ditchling Down, a large open area near the base of the northern face, close to the Beacon Road car ... placestovisit306 All About Sussex Ditchling Beacon http www.sussexwt.org.uk reserves ditchling.htm ... more details
Summary Information Description A view of Ditchling Common lake in January. Source I created this work entirely by myself. Date Jan 06 Author span style color blue User Paste Paste User talk Paste sup Talk sup span other versions Licensing self cc by sa 3.0 GFDL ... more details
Lodge Hill may refer to Lodge Hill, Bristol Lodge Hill a residential area of Bristol, England Lodge Hill Cemetery, Birmingham Lodge Hill a cemetery and crematorium in Selly Oak, Birmingham, England Lodge Hill, Ditchling, East Sussex Lodge Hill a hill in Ditchling, East Sussex, England disambig ... more details
Summary Wolstonbury at Sunset across the weald of Sussex from Lodge Hill Ditchling Licensing self GFDL with disclaimers cc by 2.5 migration relicense ... more details
Summary Wolstonbury at sunset viewed across the weald from Lodge hill Ditchling. This line of sight also closely follows a visible ley line. Licensing self GFDL with disclaimers cc by 2.5 migration relicense ... more details
The Mott Baronetcy , of Ditchling in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom . It was created on 25 June 1930 for the noted engineer Basil Mott . Mott Baronets, of Ditchling 1930 Sir Basil Mott, 1st Baronet 1859 1938 Sir Adrian Spear Mott, 2nd Baronet 1889 1964 Sir John Harmar Mott, 3rd Baronet b. 1922 References Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David editors . Debrett s Peerage and Baronetage 1990 edition . New York St Martin s Press, 1990. rayment b Category Baronetcies Mott ... more details
unsourced date March 2009 H F and A P Squire jointly produced a number of cricket books from 1949 to 1957. They specialised in Sussex , their native county. Their best work was Pre Victorian Sussex Cricket 1951 published by Ditchling Press , which was used by Timothy J McCann as an important source for his historical researches into Sussex s cricket history. DEFAULTSORT Squire Category Cricket historians and writers england cricketbio stub ... more details
Dr R W D Turner Royal College of Physicians FRCP , FRCPE , was a physician, cardiologist and author. He was born in Purley, London Purley 1909, a grandson of James Wainwright Sir James Wainwright , and died in Ditchling 1992. Richard Turner served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps RAMC and then as Chief Physician of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh where he collaborated with Andrew Logan to carry out the first Mitral valve replacement Mitral Valve Replacement in the UK. He founded the Turner Dumbrell Trust, a conservation charity in Ditchling and was married to the daughter of Henry Meulen . Books Turner, Richard Wainwright Duke. Auscultation of the Heart . 1963, 1964, 1968, 1972,1984 Turner, Richard Wainwright Duke. Electrocardiography 1963, 1964 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Turner, Richard Wainright Duke ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Turner, Richard Wainright Duke Category Royal Army Medical Corps officers Category People from Purley, London Category British cardiologists Category 1909 births Category 1992 deaths UK med bio stub UK army bio stub ... more details
Notability date December 2009 unreferenced date July 2010 Herbert Joseph Cribb was born in Hammersmith, London, in 1892, and became Eric Gill s assistant at the age of 14. The following year he started an official five year apprenticeship with Gill. He became a well known sculptor in his own right, after Gill left Ditchling for Wales in 1924. Cribb is best known for his many church sculptures in south east England, including carving the 14 Stations of the Cross at St Matthew s, Westminster . When Eric Gill moved to Ditchling in 1907, Cribb went with him as his apprentice. Later they worked together at The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic on Ditchling Common . When Gill left the Guild in 1924, Cribb took over the stone carver s workshop and continued working there until his death. Cribb s brother Lawrence went with Gill to Wales and then to Buckinghamshire as his primary assistant. Cribb and Gill continued to work together, for example on the monumental sculpture Mankind that is now in the Tate . Cribb was a sculptor of Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commonwealth war graves , which Gill s brother Max Gill had drawn up, prior to their being copied by French artists and machines, making over 50 originals for the many regimental badges represented. Though Cribb died in 1967, the Guild itself survived until 1989. Category English sculptors Category 1967 deaths ... more details
Image Echatfield.jpg thumb 200px Lord Chatfield. Baron Chatfield , of Ditchling in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It was created in 1937 for the naval commander Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield Sir Ernle Chatfield . The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, in 2007. Barons Chatfield 1937 Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield 1873&ndash 1967 Ernle David Lewis Chatfield, 2nd Baron Chatfield 1917&ndash 2007 References Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David editors . Debrett s Peerage and Baronetage 1990 edition . New York St Martin s Press, 1990. rayment Category Baronies Chatfield Category Extinct baronies Chatfield pl Baron Chatfield ... more details
Adur rises at DitchlingDitchling Common , in East Sussex , from where it crosses into West ... Settlements Slinfold Shipley, West Sussex Shipley West Grinstead Ditchling Twineham Wineham Shermanbury ... more details
being advertised for up to one hundred pounds each. Importantly, Eric Gill left Ditchling in 1924 ... http www.ditchling museum.com Ditchling Museum DEFAULTSORT Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 About the Yorkshire Priest former archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York John Cardinal O Connor Other persons John O Connor Father John O Connor 1870 1952 , a Roman Catholic parish priest in Bradford , Yorkshire , was the basis of G. K. Chesterton s fictional detective Father Brown . O Connor was instrumental in Chesterton s conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1922. He also received the poet and painter David Jones poet David Jones into the Church in 1921, and was associated with Eric Gill and The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic , at Ditchling . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Oconnor, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1870 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1952 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Oconnor, John Category 1870 births Category 1952 deaths Category English Roman Catholic priests RC clergy stub UK Christian clergy stub es John O Connor sacerdote ... more details
Alfred Darling 1862 1931 began to manufacture film equipment at his engineering works at 25 Ditchling Rise, Brighton after carrying out repairs for Esm Collings . His clients included George Albert Smith film pioneer George Albert Smith and James Williamson film pioneer James Williamson . In 1897 he took out a patent, jointly with Alfred Wrench, for a camera with a variable shutter and a claw pull down mechanism. In 1899, on a commission from Charles Urban , he produced the Biokam, a film making system for amateurs using 17.5mm film. His 35mm film equipment was widely used during the early years of cinema development. References Reflist No footnotes date July 2010 External links http www.victorian cinema.net darling.htm Alfred Darling at http www.victorian cinema.net Who s Who of Victorian Cinema http www.terramedia.co.uk brighton brighton chronology.htm History of film industry in Brighton Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Darling, Alfred ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1862 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1931 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Darling, Alfred Category People from Brighton Category 1862 births Category 1931 deaths ... more details
Hollingdean is a part of the city of Brighton & Hove . Hollingdean is in effect the older part of Hollingbury south of the park. It is bounded by Ditchling Road to the west, the Round Hill, Brighton Round Hill area to the south, and Lewes Road and Moulsecoomb to the east. A mainly residential area, mostly a Council house council estate , with late 19th and early 20th century terraced houses towards the Fiveways, and some railway land, light industry, and warehousing. The only public building of historic interest in Hollingdean is small Jewish Cemetery. The site of Brighton s old abattoir slaughterhouse is now being used for light industry and a controversial waste disposal facility. Notes, references, and links http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi england southern counties 5096570.stm BBC story about waste disposal http www.guardian.co.uk comment story 0,,1527242,00.html Polly Toynbee on Sure Start in Hollingdean http www.safeinthecity.net neighbourhoods hollingdean.html Brighton and Hove Crime Reduction Partnership on Hollingdean Neighbourhood http www.hollingdeannews.wordpress.com Local newsletter Hollingdean News Timothy Carder 1990 . The Encyclopedia of Brighton. East Sussex County Libraries. ISBN 0 86147 315 9 coord 50 50 38 N 0 07 50 W type landmark region GB display title Brighton and Hove Category Districts of Brighton and Hove ... more details
orphan date May 2010 Guy Seymour Warre Malet 1900 1973 , was an English landscape and figure engraver, printmaker, watercolourist and oil painter. He spent a large portion of his life on the island of Sark and many of his images are of the Channel Islands . ref http algarvenet.com antiques detail.asp?ID 198&GID 14 ref Malet studied at the London and New Art School under Eastman and John Hassall illustrator John Hassall , and at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art under Iain MacNab. He exhibited at the Royal Academy , the Royal Society of British Artists , the Society of Wood Engravers and the New English Art Club . Malet lived in London, Seaford in Sussex and finally in Ditchling . ref http www.retrosixty.co.uk stock 0766.html ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Malet, Guy Seymour Warre ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Malet, Guy Seymour Warre Category English painters Category 1900 births Category 1973 deaths UK painter stub ... more details
from the ridgeway sections on the tops of the downs, especially on Ditchling Beacon . The Way ... Chanctonbury Ring Image D Beacon NE from Summit .jpg View from the summit of Ditchling Beacon ... more details
of Ditchling Road on which to built a larger college. Ditchling Road, which ran across Ditchling Beacon to Ditchling village and then on to Cuckfield and eventually London, became a Turnpike trust ... was built to link Ditchling and A23 road London Roads and which formed the northern edge of Brighton ... web title Heritage Gateway Listed Buildings Online Brighton Business Centre, Ditchling Road, Brighton ... face to Ditchling Road has eight bays and a carriage arch at the north end. The first four bays have ... more details
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