Stonegate Walk, London
18 October 2008: Stonegate Walk
A 9½ mile circular walk from Stonegate, through the Sussex Weald, with a pub lunch at the Rose and Crown in Burwash.
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At 9.6 miles, this walk is a good introduction to the Weald, whose relative quietness is one of its attractions. Passing over gentle hills and into tranquil valleys, through classic English wood and pastureland, its attractions include the unspoiled village of Burwash for lunch, and passing Bateman's, the one time rural retreat of Rudyard Kipling.
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There will be a pub lunch at the Rose and Crown in Burwash, which serves a range of food from soups and sandwiches to main meals such as sausages and mash and a long list of chalkboard specials.
Burwash dates back to Norman times. The Church of St. Bartholomew was built in 1090 although the tower is all that remains of the original Norman structure. The church houses the rare 16th century Geneva Bible discovered in 1954 among a collection of old books in the church vestry. During the late 17th and 18th centuries Burwash along with many other villages in the area was a haven for smuggling, a capital crime for which several villagers were executed. Originally the Revenue had been insistent that the smugglers may not be buried in consecrated ground; although a compromise was reached whereby their headstones were carved with the skull and cross bones. Several such headstones are to be found in the churchyard; although some are fairly weathered the marking is still quite distinguishable.
There is also a memorial plaque in the church to John Kipling (Rudyard's son) who was reported missing, believed killed at the age of 18, in his first battle (the Battle of Loos) on the Western Front in 1915.
Bateman's House (former home of Rudyard Kipling) is now owned by the National Trust. Kipling lived at Bateman's from 1902 until his death in 1936. His wife, Carrie, who died in 1939, left Bateman's to the National Trust, as a memorial to her husband.
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