Heighton Street

Door in Firle

View WNW towards Mount Caburn

This was taken from the permissive path that links the Old Coach Road to Charleston Farmhouse.

Barn and tank at Charleston Farm

Firle Village Hall

Built as a reading room by public subscription to honour the Gage family, owners of much of the village and land around.

Firle Stores

The shop, as well as many of the houses in the village, is owned by the estate - had it been in private hands it could very easily have been converted to residential use

Beanstalk at Firle

Cottage on the old coach road near to Firle village, welcome stop for weary walkers providing teas at weekends in summer in secluded garden to rear

Firle Place staircase

Firle Place features in the list compiled by Simon Jenkins of the top hundred houses - some of the finest artwork and furniture - in a superb parkland below the scarp slopes of the South Downs.

Firle from the Bostal seats

Firle Bostal offers free parking and seats to enjoy this panorama which includes Firle village, the busy A27, railway and the wooded landscape of the High Weald.

Downtown Firle

The lane between the Post Office and the two cottages is The Dock.

The Dock, Firle

Although the map may suggest otherwise The Dock does not provide a route for traffic between the village and Firle Place.

St Peter, Firle - tomb of Sir Edward Gage

There are three alabaster tomb chests of members of the Gage family in the Gage Chapel, all made in 1595. This is the tomb of Sir Edward Gage (d.1569) and his wife standing in the north-east corner of the chapel.

St Peter, Firle - tomb of John Gage

There are three alabaster tomb chests of members of the Gage family in the Gage Chapel, all made in 1595. This is the tomb of John Gage (d.1598) and his two wives standing in the north-west corner of the chapel. All three were commissioned by John Gage himself.

Descent from Firle Beacon

The path passes through Firle Plantation in the foreground towards Firle itself. The high ground in the centre of the horizon is The Caburn, a chalky outlier separated from the main strike of the South Downs by the River Ouse and its tributary Glynde Reach.

South Downs escarpment near Firle Beacon

Taken from the steep descent from Firle Beacon looking east along the escarpment and across the Low Weald.

Bovines at Charleston Farm

Charleston Farm is to be distinguished from the nearby Charleston Farmhouse which was frequented pre-War by the members of the Bloomsbury Set whose interests were unlikely to have included farming. The downland spur of Round Hill rises in the background.

Tilton House

Once the home of the noted economist J Maynard Keynes who was closely associated with Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant of the Bloomsbury set next door at Charleston Farm. Seen here from the bridleway that climbs up Tilton Bostal to join the South Downs Way.