East Sussex

  • Kipling’s Haunted Eden

    Chris Lawson UK

    Deep in the drowsy folds of the Sussex Weald, where the fields breathe mist and the hedgerows hum with age-old secrets, lies Bateman’s – Rudyard Kipling’s sanctuary and sorrow-song. At first glance, it’s a storybook setting. A Jacobean manor house of golden stone, its mullioned windows peering out over rose gardens and lazy meadows, the…

  • Back into History

    John Minter UK

    There is an old song that sings about “Faraway places with strange sounding names”, and many have, and will continue to be explored on this site. Sometimes, however, one doesn’t have to go far to discover a little jewel of a destination. Rye, in East Sussex, is one such. Now nearly two miles from the…