Travel and tourism services in Fulking CP, Hurstpierpoint and Downs Ward

Touristic Attraction

• Bronze Age Bowl Barrow
  This mound is a Bronze Age barrow, called a bowl barrow because of its shape. Typically placed in prominent positions, as this one is, barrows mark the burial site of an important person. The grass-covered crater on the top of this one is probably the res
• Fulking Isolation Hosptial (Fulking Grange) Ruins
  The site was in use from around 1902 to September 1940 when it was requisitioned for military use, before falling into ruin. When highly infectious diseases (eg. smallpox & tuberculosis) were rife, victims were isolated from others in remote housing
• Medievel Village of Perching
  Now a Scheduled Monument
• Motte and Bailey
  This Scheduled Monument is the motte of Edburton motte and bailey castle. Walk around the circular ditch surrounding the motte. The castle is believed to date from after the Norman Conquest (1066) & is ideally placed for commanding access along the Downs.
• Perching Hill
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