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visit Herstmonceux Castle Herstmonceux Castle grounds and gardens - including a gift shop, tea room, nature trail, children's play area, special events and visitor centre with an exhibition of the history of the Castle. The castle & grounds are a Grade I listed building. Guided tours of the Castle are "subject to availability". Open April to October, 10am to 6pm (last admission 5pm). Check for precise dates. The Castle can also be booked for conferences, functions and weddings - tel. 834444/fax 834499 or email.

visit the Observatory Science Centre The Observatory Science Centre is housed in the Equatorial Group of domes on the Castle grounds (also known as Herstmonceux Park) and is open to the public (tel. 832731/fax 832741 or email). "Hands-on science among the domes and telescopes of the former Royal Greenwich Observatory.... With more than seventy exciting exhibits". The Centre includes an outdoor science playground. Especially suitable for families. Open 7 days a week from February to March and from April to November, 10am to 5pm (last admission one our before closing). Check for precise dates. Free parking. CLICK HERE to see the 2008 Observatory Science Centre programme of events. The Equatorial Group of domes is a Grade II listed building.

visit All Saints Church   All Saints (Church of England) is about two miles east of Herstmonceux village centre, approached from the north through Flowers Green. The Church "stands on a gentle slope that looks south and west for miles across the Pevensey levels.... The church, most of it, preceded the castle by well over a hundred years. The oldest parts are the 12th century west tower [perhaps the only Sussex church tower which forms part of the west end of the nave] and the west wall. of the nave.... The rest of the church consists of a 13th/14th century nave, chancel and north and south aisles with a 15th century north [Dacre] chapel of red Flemish bricks added by the builders of the Castle.... It is not a church with which egalitarians may easily empathise. We may all be equal in the pews nowadays but there is no concession to egalitarianism in the memorials here" (James Antony Syms, East Sussex Country Churches [Seaford: S.B. Publications, 1994], p. 58). "On 3 July 1944 an enemy bomb demolished three and damaged ten of the windows, the roof and the shingles of the spire" (Revd Rosslyn Bruce and others, All Saints Church Herstmonceux, 1985 ed., p. 12). The Domesday Book mentions a church in the Manor of Herste, but it's not visible in All Saints. The church has the 12th most senior churchyard yew in Sussex. In 1998 the diameter was reckoned as 243cm at the base (1835: 218cm). photo: www.herstmonceux-village.org

visit the Windmill Hill Windmill after restoration before restoration The Windmill Hill Windmill, on the A271 at Windmill Hill, has been fully restored. For the Windmill Hill Windmill Trust's website, CLICK HERE. For a history of the Windmill Hill post mill, CLICK HERE. In 2008, the windmill will be open to the public from 2:30 to 5pm on the following dates: March – Easter Weekend Friday 21st, Sun 23rd and Mon 24th April - Sun 6th and 20th May - Sun 4th & Mon 5th Bank Holiday National Mills Weekend Sat & Sun 10th & 11th May Sun 18th Sun 25th & Mon 26th Bank Holiday June - Sun 1st, 14th and 22nd July - Sun 6th & 20th August - Sun 3rd,17th & 24th, Mon 25th Bank Holiday September – Sun 7th,14th Heritage Open Day, Sun 21st October - Sun 5th & 19th admission is by donation - parking available for appointments at other times and for group visits, please telephone 01323 833033

. for these and other sites of interest in the Parish, see the Herstmonceux Parish history and environment webpage

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where to stay in Herstmonceux Parish scroll down to see "where to stay" click on underlined words to visit other webpages or to send an email message the code for all phone/fax numbers is +44 (0)1323
bed and breakfast Bader Hall, Herstmonceux Castle  tel. 834400/fax 833166 - rooms available during summer holidays Bachelors  Cowbeech Hill  tel. 832215 Church Farm Cottage  Cowbeech  tel. 833215/mobile 07737 877444 - email Conquerors  Cowbeech Hill  tel. 832446/fax 831578 - email Courtlands Farm  Cowbeech Road, Foul Mile  tel. 01435 830360 - email The Horseshoe Inn  Windmill Hill  tel. 833265/833714 - email The Mill  Cowbeech  tel. 833952/fax 833750 - email The Old Farm  Trolliloes, Cowbeech  tel. 831544 Sandhurst  Church Road  tel./fax 833088 - email Stoneacre Lodge  New Road  tel. 833971 - email The Sundial  Gardner Street  tel. 832217/fax 832909 - email Windesworth  Carter's Corner  tel. 847178/fax 440696
self-catering holiday cottages Beechcroft  Cowbeech  email Tree Tops  Oaklea, Chilsham Lane, Stunts Green  tel. 832951; mobile 07733 184133 - email
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