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New season of meetings starts in March.
Programme here
Big Event coming soon
History of Horsted Keynes Weekend
8th and 9th February. Details
History Round up for 2024.
Sue Ray, Events Organiser
We have welcomed a variety of speakers and enjoyed their very individual presentations.
Our final speaker of the season was Simon Stevens talking about the Stiance project he undertook, over several years with pupils of Newick school. If you have not heard this talk make sure to attend next time you see it advertised. Amazing. No longer will the Weald and High Weald be dismissed as, with a shrug of the shoulders, ‘just a field in the weald’. My Thanks to a particular resident of Fletching who has been so kind in sharing his knowledge with me. Cyril, you don’t know what you started.
Here, in Horsted Keynes, a ground breaking discovery last summer, 2024, has led to much excitement and we are hoping, eventually, to host a community dig. If you thought local history began with Normans, possibly the Saxons or maybe The Romans think again. Think Neolithic possibly Mesolithic, ….. who knows maybe Palaeolithic?
Right here under our feet.
DPHS have been very fortunate to compile an interesting programme for 2025 including many aspects to commemorate 1945 – with some very local interest. This will be the year when we highlight the 80th yr of the end of WW11. However, we had already begun to think of this momentous time when Gilly Halcrow spoke about the bravery of the Shetland fishermen who ferried Norwegian resistance fighters between their two countries.



Watchout for more updates. However, we restart our Speakers programme 2025 on Tuesday 25th March on Uckfield Workhouse



New projects:
1. Collingford Lane-the Research group are gathering information on the older properties and holdings in the lane.
2. The Parish in 2025- setting up a photographic record of the villages as they are now as a reference point for future Historians. This has become especially pertinent with the current enthusiasm for demolishing existing housing to build mansions of questionable taste.
If you are interested in joining these projects let us know at [email protected]

Tye Family. Newly received, very extensive work by John F Howes on this large family based on West Hoathly and also Horsted Keynes and Fletching.

Ling Family Page, New Information about Richard Bertram Ling Of Richard Bertam House, Lewes Road.

Danehill Burial Ground Project

More than 130 families,from Lords and Ladies to farm labourers, have now been researched, many in enormous detail, by Mat Weller and Elizabeth Broadbridge. The reports paint a fascinating picture. Click here.

Danehill Parish Historical Society was founded in 1972 with our first president being Dame Margery Corbett Ashby DBE (pictured in 1923).

The objectives of the society are to promote interest in, and the study of local history in particular, or any other historical matter of interest, bringing together local residents or other people to share and enjoy a range of social and informal activities.
                                                                                                       
The Society is a member of:-

• British Association for Local History
• Friends of The East Sussex Record Office
• The Sussex Archaeological Society
  

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Danehill Recruits who joined the Royal Sussex Regiment, 1914