East Grinstead

When war was declared in August 1914, there were only 750,000 men in the British Army. Lord Kitchener, Britain’s War Minister, decided that the the British Army needed another 500,000 men. By the end of August over 300,000 men had answered the call in army recruitment centres in Britain’s main towns and cities.
The first recruitment […]

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Anne Tree, Thomas Dunngate and John Forman were burned as Martyrs on 18 July 1556 because they would not renounce the Protestant Faith.
It should be remembered that the inscribed slabs in the churchyard of St. Swithun’s are only a memorial and that the ashes of the martyrs do not […]

The High Street contains the longest continuous run of 14th-century timber-framed buildings in England.
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 […]