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Dist:0.3km<br/>The area around Lower Barn is very marshy. It was once part of a 'Hammer Pond' for Shipley forge.
©Peter Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>Although the roof (including timbers) has been replaced the brick walls and wooden columns at the front are original. A hay rack at the back is in its final stages of collapse but one third remains almost intact.
©Andy Potter
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©Dave Spicer
Dist:0.5km<br/>Bridleway 1882 has recently been improved with better drainage and a good wearing surface.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.5km<br/>The bridge is in there somewhere! It takes an ancient Greenway (called here Pennbridge Lane OS 6" 1879) running from Sullington, by the South Downs, to its outlier at Broadbridge Heath to the west of Horsham. The stream is the 'Hammer Stream'and runs into 'Hammer Pond', down to 'Hammer Farm'. The full extent of the pond can be seen on the 1879 OS 6" map for Shipley. There is an account of Shipley Forge in 'Wealden Iron' by Ernest Straker G Bell and sons 1931, and a modern reprint David & Charles 1969 ISBN 7153 4470 6.
©Peter Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>Footpath to lower Barn or Palace Land Farm on the right
©Dave Spicer
Dist:0.7km<br/>The house beyond is Oaklands.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.7km<br/>Not much use now, but how did it get like this?
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.8km<br/>More new deer fencing being erected
©Dave Spicer
Dist:0.8km<br/>Horses arrive at the Countryman Inn from the farmland to the rear.
©Matt Fisher esq
Dist:0.8km<br/>At the junction of Countryman Lane and Smithers Hill Lane. For more information see the Countryman Inn website http://www.countrymanshipley.co.uk/.
©Andy Potter
Dist:0.8km<br/>Footpath to Hazelbrook Farm to the photographers right
©Dave Spicer
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©Dave Spicer
Dist:0.9km<br/>On the distant gate West Sussex County Council had pinned a notice warning that the bridleway was impassable for walkers in winter. They had added words to the effect that since they were strapped for cash, they would only do something about this if enough people complained - their priorities would be complaint driven. Weald Clay bridleways are a problem - they become waterlogged and extremely muddy and slippery in winter, and rock hard, rutted and pocked in summer. In between there are brief periods of pleasant plasticity.
©Robin Webster
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©Dave Spicer

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