with the long arm being the more modern portion of the building, and the shorter the ancient nucleus from which the other developed. Over the low heavy lintelled door in the centre of the old part is chiselled the date 1607, but experts agree that the beams and stonework are really much older than this. It has a splendid park with fine old timber and a lake which lay close to an avenue about 200 hundred yards from the building.

Oak on the estate probably since the Norman Conquest. It had a girth of 23 feet.

Elm had been struck by lightening and cut down but had been 64 feet high.

West Sussex
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