Brilliant production. Absolutely fantastic, authoritative and accurate account of the village and its surrounds. As I was born in the George & Dragon in 1950 and spent the next 18 years of my life there it was fantastic to see all my old haunts from a very different perspective thanks to the brilliantly produced drone shots. Thank you. Not bad for a Yank!
Thank you. Very interesting and informative.. I’m very local to there and found out loads from your excellent production. Particularly enjoyed the photography from above. Thank you. 😊
A very interesting and exhaustive discourse on a village known to me (I don't recall visiting it) - but then I'm merely a peasant living to the east of the county...... Thank you!
One thing you missed at the church was the grave of author and artist Mervyn Peake who wrote the Gormenghast trilogy. Very nostalgic to see the views of the beautiful countryside that I remember from maybe forty years ago.
@@SussexYank Very easy to miss if you don't know it is there, as I didn't at the time. I was just wandering around as I like to do in old graveyards and was surprised to see a name I recognized.
That was very interesting, thankyou! Presumably, as the estuaries of rivers like the Arun, the Adur and the Ouse were once wide expanses of water reaching far inland to the castles at their head, back in Alfred’s day that spit of land at Burpham would have been a very noticeable promontory jutting out into the water?
It surely seems that way. It's clear that the Adur was an estuary back in the day, and so it seems that the Arun must have been as well. You'd get some pushback on that from older writers. A significant scholar of the late 19th and early 20th century, A. Hadrian Allcroft, was of the opinion that the Arun's flow is greater now than even back in Roman times. Problem is, there's not a lot of archaeology to confirm or contradict this.
@@SussexYank Yes, it’s flow now must be much faster as it has been embanked, and is no longer wide, meandering and constantly changing course. My understanding is that the castles at Arundel, Bramber and Lewes guarded the head of their respective estuaries, an indicator of the importance of seaborne trade in medieval and earlier times.
This is exactly right, and is the reason Arundel and Bramber castles are where they are, at least part of the reason they were there was to built to defend the spot where ships would load and unload or pass by on their way to and from the sea. The only reason these rivers now run in the channels they do is due to them being controlled by embankments. The Arun in particular is well known for its tendency to break its banks and flood after heavy rain, even as far up river as Pulborough. There are records of barge traffic on the Arun as far as Pallingham Quay upriver from Pulborough well into the 19th century.
