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Originally a deer hunting forest in Norman times, Ashdown Forest is now the largest free public access space in the South East. It is a great place for walking and enjoying spectacular views over the Sussex countryside and is known the world over as the ‘home’ of Winnie-the-Pooh.

The Forest is at the heart of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has national and international protection because of its wildlife. Nearly two thirds of its 6500 acres (2500 hectares) are heathland, amounting to 2.5% of the UK’s extent of this rare habitat. The Forest Centre is the headquarters of the Conservators of Ashdown Forest who are responsible for the managing the Forest.

www.ashdownforest.org

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St. Swithun’s is an open and friendly church in the town of East Grinstead in West Sussex, within the Diocese of Chichester. the building is 18th-century rebuilt in medieval style, with interesting round windows in the clerestory.

There has been a church on the site since the 11th century. It was struck by lightening in 1772 and after re-building it was opened in 1789.

Historical Background
This hill-top site where several tracks met would have been the obvious place to build a church when our area began to be settled in the late tenth century: and one of the most popular saints of that time, St Swithun (Bishop of Winchester, 852-862), was the unsurprising choice for its patron. We can only speculate about the original building and how it developed but pictures from the late eighteenth century show that a church of largely fourteenth and fifteenth century style stood here until 1785 when the collapse of its tower (poorly rebuilt in 1684 after being struck by lightning) made the present building necessary.

A national appeal for funds (a ‘brief’) raised £516 in 1788. Building began the next year but funds ran out when little more than the walls had been constructed. An Act of Parliament was therefore obtained authorising trustees to levy rates and raise loans. By 1793 the church was in use but in 1811 a further Act was necessary to pay off loans of £4000 and to raise as much again to build the tower, a task completed the following year. By the time the final loan repayments were made, in 1876, the church had cost some £30,000.

The local gentry and tradesmen responsible for all this were originally led by Gibbs Crawfurd, M.P., whose house Saint Hill was being built at the same time. It was probably he who secured one of the leading architects of the day, James Wyatt, to design the church, which is still structurally as he planned it, except for the tower, modified by William Inwood, a protégé of Charles Abbot, Speaker of the House of Commons, who settled at Kidbrooke, Forest Row, in 1805 and soon came to the fore in the rebuilding work.

Normally at this date such a church would be in classical style on basilican plan or an open hall without aisles or dividing columns. It would be roofed by a plaster decorated barrel vault. However, here Wyatt combined the requirements of the Church at the time with a respect for the earlier traditional mediaeval church on the site, displaying remarkable sensitivity a generation before the establishment of the Gothic Revival. Thus, for example, his pillars are very like those in the previous church and he provided a small structural chancel.

A programme of restoration in 1874 inaugurated the present appearance of the interior by removing Wyatt’s plastered paneling from the walls, taking down his flat ceiling, converting one bay of the nave into a choir and installing the present seating. In 1876 the present roof was put in. Stained glass began to be inserted in the windows at about the same time. Since then chapels have been formed either side of the choir, east windows have been inserted in them, an organ has been built in the gallery intended for singers and instrumentalists, and numerous furnishings and decorations have been installed.

Source: St. Swithun’s

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A walk along the historic High Street will take you back through 800 years of Sussex heritage, it boasts many historic half timbered buildings and open hall houses in the UK. Some buildings date from the 15th and 16th centuries and there are splendid examples from Georgian and Regency times too.

Other notable buildings in the town include Sackville College, the sandstone almshouse built in 1609 where the Christmas carol “Good King Wenceslas” was written.

On the outskirts of the town is Standen, a country house containing one of the best collections of Arts and Crafts movement furnishings and fabrics.

Local attractions include Ashdown Forest (where the Winnie the Pooh stories are set) and the Bluebell Railway, a preserved heritage line with steam locomotives.

The town is also the site of Queen Victoria Hospital, where famed plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe treated burn victims of World War II and formed the Guinea Pig Club.

‘The above photograph depicts the “aeroplane” without engines, made by members of the 1st East Grinstead Troop of Boy Scouts’

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The Prime Meridian, also known as the International Meridian or Greenwich Meridian, is the meridian (line of longitude) passing through the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich, England — it is the meridian at which longitude is defined to be 0 degrees. The prime meridian, and the opposite 180th meridian (at 180° longitude), which the International Date Line generally follows, separates the eastern and western hemispheres.

Unlike the parallels of latitude, which are defined by the rotational axis of the Earth (the poles being 90° and the Equator, 0°), the prime meridian is arbitrary, and multiple meridians have been used through history as the prime meridians of various mapmaking systems. The Greenwich Meridian was agreed upon as the international standard in October 1884. At the behest of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C., USA, for the International Meridian Conference. France abstained when the vote was taken, and French maps continued to use the Paris Meridian for several decades.

Heading south from the North Pole, the Prime Meridian passes through the following countries:

• The United Kingdom (note London is in both the Western Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere due to the proximity of the Prime Meridian)
• France
• Spain
• Algeria
• Mali
• Burkina Faso
• Togo
• Ghana

and finally joins all other longitude lines in Antarctica at the South Pole.

The zero meridian used by satellite navigation systems (on the WGS84 datum) is 102.5 metres to the east of the line marked at Greenwich.[1] The plane of this geodetic meridian passes through the centre of the Earth, unlike the plane of the astronomical meridian which contains the direction of gravity (indicated by a plumb line) which points opposite to the direction of the zenith, to which astronomical instruments are aligned. The angle between these two meridian planes at the Royal Observatory, the east-west component of vertical deflection, is 5.31″. The WGS84 datum is an average of the various continental drifts. As a result, the astronomical meridian through Airy’s transit instrument drifts toward the east as it is carried by the European portion of the Eurasian tectonic plate, closer to the geodetic meridian, by about one centimetre per year.

The zero meridian used by the Ordnance Survey (OSGB36 datum) is about six metres to the west of the line marked at Greenwich. This was the standard meridian before 1851, and the Ordnance Survey simply continued to use it.

Universal Time is notionally based on the WGS84 meridian. However, the standard international time UTC can be discrepant from the observed time on the meridian by up to about one second, because of changes in the earth’s rotation. Leap seconds are inserted periodically to keep UTC in sync with the earth. One second theoretically corresponds to a variation in longitude of roughly 300 metres either way on the ground at Greenwich.

The Greenwich Meridian is now marked at night by a laser beam emitted from the observatory.

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L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, lived at Saint Hill, to the south of the town, and the manor is the British headquarters of the Church of Scientology.

To the north of the town is the Mormon London England Temple.

Opus Dei and the Rosicrucians both own property in the town.

The strange co-incidence of such a number of religious organisations being headquartered in the town prompted a documentary in 1994, Why East Grinstead?, which was produced for Channel 4 by Zed Productions and directed by Ian Sellar. The documentary didn’t come to any definite conclusions: the explanations ranging from the fact that East Grinstead sat on the convergence of ley lines to the more prosaic idea that the various reglious inquirers had settled there because they liked the views.
One of the most impressive buildings in the town is St. Swithun’s church which has been on its present site since the 11th century. The building was struck by lightning in 1772 and rebuilt to designs by Wyatt. It was opened in 1789. There are also three other Anglican churches (St Barnabas, St Luke and St Mary); West Street Baptist chapel; Our Lady and St Peter Roman Catholic church; Trinity Methodist church; and a United Reformed Church in the town.

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