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Fulking Village Sign
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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
Castle on the Hill
Iron Age settlers farmed the Devil"s Dyke over 2,000 years ago. The remains of their hill fort can be seen as you walk around the hill.
Devil's Dyke
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
Remains of Bicycle Railway
A curious attraction that allowed visitors a safe ride on the newly-invented bicylce as it went round on a fixed track.
Remains of Cableway - public access
Britains first cable car took visitors across the valley on two cagework cars, each sitting 4 passengers. It took two minutes to get from one side to the other. All you can see today are the remains of the concrete foundations
Remains of Cableway
Britains first cable car took visitors across the valley on two cagework cars, each sitting 4 passengers. It took two minutes to get from one side to the other. All you can see today are the remains of the concrete foundations
Remains of Funicular Railway
This masterpiece of Victorian engineering took visitors to the village of Poynings. You can still see the remains of the station.
The Bomb House
Former WW1 bomb detonator testing facility
Victorian Playground
Devil's Dyke Road
In1895, H J Hubbard bought Devil"s Dyke and turned it into a Victorian Funfair and amusement park.
well house with donkey wheel
The farm has over 1,000 years of stories to tell & was once home to the Knights Templar. The Donkey Wheel is a wooden well-house containing a large, broad wheel which was turned by a donkey or pony, raising drinking water from 150ft below for centuries.
Wolstonbury Hill
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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.

Touristic Information

Devil's Dyke
Devil's Dyke Road
Devil's Dyke - National Trust
Millennium Milepost Pyecombe - Walk Wheel Cycle Trust
This milepost is missing it"s arms, the mileages on this milepost would have been. 1) Crawley 20, London 2) Patcham Youth Hostel 2.5, Brighton 6
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Devil's Dyke Road
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Devil's Dyke Road
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Mill Lane
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Devil's Dyke Road
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Saddlescombe Road
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Mill Lane

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Cobbs Mill
Auditory Delight from the Mill Race (Running Water)
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