|
|
THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE ― These Findon Chronicles are created by Valerie Martin and are progressively growing to be the only record of life around Findon, West Sussex, England. Everyday stories about real people. In fact, a potted history of the village.
|
|
THE PARK BROW DEW-POND
O.S. 155 082
Copyright Valerie Martin 2004
One July evening in 2002 I discovered a restored dew-pond that until then I did not know existed. This is the one at the southern end of Park Brow —
|
Looking west |
|
Looking south. Cissbury Ring is in the background. Lychpole Farm is peeping round the corner of the hillside below the Iron Age Fort. The Park Brow dew-pond is rather magnificent. |
Alas, by March 2004 the dew-pond I had described as magnificent had vanished and there was just an indentation in the ground and crops were growing over the site. What a good job I took photographs of another bit of Findon history before it disappeared.
I do not know who re-constructed the dew-pond, nor why it was left uncared for and allowed to disappear forever.
Visiting the site again in May 2010, the dew-pond was still a shadow of it's former self.
click to enlarge
Continue if you would like to read about Two More Dew-ponds.
This is Findon Village — www.findonvillage.com is a continually growing record created by Valerie Martin exclusively for documenting life in Findon.
|
Do let me know of anything you hear about Findon - not too controversial. Please note that opinions expressed in the Findon Chronicles are not necessarily reflective of my own thoughts.... but sometimes they are!
|
Back to Dew-pond
Index
