This is the only bottle-shaped, brick-built kiln to survive in Sussex. It last functioned in 1912, and the brickworks are now largely buried under the road which bypasses the village. The kiln was restored in 1980 after first being completely dismantled.

 

Piddinghoe church has one of the only three Norman round towers in Sussex (the others being at St.Michael's,, Lewes, and at Southease). In his poem 'Sussex', Kipling described the weathervane as a 'begilded dolphin'.  His eyesight was notoriously bad: it's a salmon trout.

 

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In a garden by the Lewes-Newhaven road

 

 

 

 

 

 

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