A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



That at Wannock has a carved figure of a woman on it. Several water-mills 

 of ancient date remain in Western Sussex, as at Bosham, Cocking, Stedham, 

 Cowdray, and Iping. 



There are many ancient stone bridges in the western part of the county 

 such as at Stopham, Pulborough, Houghton, Fittleworth, Midhurst, Rogate, 

 Iping, Woolbeding, and Trotton. The last named, a very good example, 

 was built by Baron de Camoys early in the fifteenth century. A very long 

 bridge, of which traces have been found, once existed at Bramber ; as it 

 gave a name to the neighbourhood in Domesday, a Roman origin has been 

 ascribed to it. 



Village- and market-crosses are scarce. The stump of one remains at 

 Alfriston ; and Chichester possesses in its large octagonal market-cross, built 

 by Bishop Story c. 1510, the most important of a series which includes the 

 crosses of Salisbury, Malmesbury, &c. 



MILITARY ARCHITECTURE 



Few counties can show a more numerous and important series of castles 

 and defensive works, proportionately to its area, than Sussex. Beginning 

 with Roman Pevensey and ending with sixteenth-century Camber or Cowdray, 

 we are furnished with examples representative of almost every period. There 



are or were seventeen or 

 if we include the Ypres 

 / Tower, Rye, and the forti- 

 ' fied house of the Bohuns at 

 Ford on the Arun, nine- 

 / teen castles in Sussex ; 

 viz. those at Pevensey, 

 Hastings, Lewes, Bramber, 

 Arundel, and Chichester of 

 the first rank, and Haben 

 Bridge (the castle of the 

 Camoys family on the 

 western Rother), Verdley, 

 Knepp, Amberley, Sedg- 

 wick, Burlow, Scotney, 

 Bodiam, Herstmonceux, 

 Camber, and the half 

 castle, half manor-house, 

 at Cowdray. Little but 

 the sites of some of them 

 is left to us, but sufficient 

 still exists to show the 

 plans and designs of the 

 majority, and these, with the historical details, will be given in the histories 

 of the parishes in which they severally lie. The object of this article is to 



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