THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — These Chronicles are created by Valerie Martin and contains scenes from her home village of Findon, West Sussex, U.K.

c. 1635   An etching from early Stuart days by Wencelas Hollar.  

South Downs and Wiston House — looking west.  St. Mary's Church can be seen on the far right.

The site of Chanctonbury Ring on the summit is almost bare.... it is, of course....prior to tree planting in 1760 by Charles Goring.

 

CHANCTONBURY RING PORTFOLIO — FROM THE EAST

Copyright Valerie Martin 2004

(In Chronological order as near as I can get)

I make no apologies for including Chanctonbury Ring on my Findon website.   The area does not come within the Findon Parish boundaries — but I can see it clearly from the village and that is why I have taken the liberty of adopting it.

Chanctonbury Ring in the far distance..... with the ruins of Bramber Castle in the foreground.   This etching by an unknown hand is 1823.  

Here are a series of views of Chanctonbury Ring from various angles... hopefully in chronological order.... or as near as I can get them!     I have given dates and data as well as I a able.   All giving a fascinating portrayal of the area over the decades.....

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Chanctonbury Ring (on far left in the distance) from Dyke Hill around 1846 with an extensive view of the weald.   I can't quite read the sign outside the house but I think it reads Dyke House.

 

Chanctonbury Ring from Henfield in 1984.

 

pre 1907 — Chanctonbury Ring towering above Wiston House

 

Pre 1908.  Photograph taken from Great Barn Farm of Malthouse Cottage (now Malthouse Cottages) at the top end of Chanctonbury Ring Road.

 

Date of photograph not determined.   Malthouse Cottage again in the foreground.  Looking west.

 

Chanctonbury Ring  and Malthouse Cottage  c.1919.

 

Chanctonbury Ring with the Malthouse Cottages in the foreground......at the top end of Chanctonbury Ring Road.    

 

Chanctonbury Ring...... photograph with Malthouse Cottage in the foreground.  At some date before 1924.

 

..... and here's a slightly different view pre 1924.

 

1925

 

Malthouse Cottage scene below Chanctonbury Ring from the 1920s.   Lovely horses.

 

Date unknown.

 

c. 1925 — Chanctonbury Ring above Malthouse Cottage

 

c. 1930

 

Pre 1937 Malthouse Cottage

 

Pre war.....The Dyke Hills with Chanctobury Ring in the far distance.

 

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...and Malthouse Cottage with a female figure in the field next to the very neatly built haystack. This one is dated pre 1947.

 

Entrance to Malthouse Cottage.

 

Malthouse Cottage, pre 1957

 

Chanctonbury Ring in the distance.   In the  foreground is the long gone railway line. This is the track between Steyning and Bramber, near Bramber Castle.

 

A game in progress at the Steyning Cricket Pitch with Chanctonbury Ring in the extreme far distance on the skyline, c.1930

 

Chanctonbury Ring from the Steyning Cricket Pitch c.1960.  Looking west across the roped off cricket square and field in the foreground, towards the wooded slope of Peppercombe rising behind the little hut.   If you can't see the Ring — Chanctonbury Ring is on the skyline in the far distance.

 

A very similar view to the above but taken from a slightly different angle.   Date unsure.

 

Chanctonbury Ring in the distance — from Fulking.

 

 

Continue if you would like to see the Chanctonbury Ring Portfolio — From Wiston Pond.

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