Firle village and Firle Place Estate from the South Downs. A patchwork of fields and woodland copse spreads northwards across the Weald to places like Ashdown Forest and Crowborough, East Sussex, England.
Commentary.
Up where the skies are wide
and oxygen nears its 20%.
Views are 360°
and it feels one can see forever.
Firle village becomes toy-town,
a village that housed the workers and servants
of the 300-acre Firle Place Estate, for hundreds of years.
St. Peter’s Parish Church.
The Ram Inn.
General Store and Post-Office,
dating back to 1780.
Largely Flint-built and/or tile-hung dwellings.
Unchanged.
Unspoiled.
19th. Century pictures show lanes
with horses and carts.
21st. Century images look remarkably similar,
barring the ubiquitous car for transport,
mainly in “The Street.”
Firle village and Firle Place Estate from the South Downs. A patchwork of fields and woodland copse spreads northwards across the Weald to places like Ashdown Forest and Crowborough, East Sussex, England.
Commentary.
Up where the skies are wide
and oxygen nears its 20%.
Views are 360°
and it feels one can see forever.
Firle village becomes toy-town,
a village that housed the workers and servants
of the 300-acre Firle Place Estate, for hundreds of years.
St. Peter’s Parish Church.
The Ram Inn.
General Store and Post-Office,
dating back to 1780.
Largely Flint-built and/or tile-hung dwellings.
Unchanged.
Unspoiled.
19th. Century pictures show lanes
with horses and carts.
21st. Century images look remarkably similar,
barring the ubiquitous car for transport,
mainly in “The Street.”