Tag: Betty Turner
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Like most villages, the church has always been the focal point of Maresfield. A wooden church is believed to have stood on the same site in Saxon times. The late Revd Algernon Charles Dudley Ryder (Rector 1902-1941) was always adamant that the little window on the south side of the nave was of Saxon origin.…
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Queen Victoria visited Maresfield in 1845 whilst staying in Brighton. A fine avenue of oak trees was planted from Batts Farm to the “Manor House” to commemorate the visit and mark her approach route to “The Cross”. The same year the Queen and Prince Albert stayed in the neighbouring parish at “Buxted Place” as guests…
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Betty Turner, 1991 Village life has never stood still. Villages have been built and re-built countless times as part of the evolution of the rural landscape. This surely must be true of Maresfield, when the long-awaited Bypass opened in November, 1989. The wheel has indeed turned full circle in the 160 years since Sir John…
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Betty Turner, 1991 I arrived at Maresfield on 18th March, 1941 in an army vanette as my father was attached to the newly-opened D.C.R.E. office in Maresfield Park. He had managed to rent a large house and garden that had been part of the stabling block of the Manor House of Count Münster, who had…