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

Nearest Services

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
-
Oddly shaped pieces of metal in the scrub (do not remove!) are remnants of WW2 defences. Perching Hill was used for troop training. On the hill to your left, dark horizontal lines & a flatter strip of land mark an Iron Age/Romano-British field system.

The Pump House - Fulking Parish Council
The Street
Describes the history of the pump house, the ram pump within, and the connection with John Ruskin and Henry Willett.