Spithurst
Spithurst is a Village in the county of East Sussex.
Spithurst postcode: BN8 5EE
There are great places to visit near Spithurst.
Spithurst History
There are some historic monuments around Spithurst:
- Medieval settlement site in Buxted Park
- Oval barrow on Cliffe Hill 200m south of Bridgwick Pit
- Bowl barrow 700m north west of Lewes Prison: the northerly barrow of a group of three round barrows
- Priory of St Pancras
- Saxonbury Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Bowl barrow south of The Beeches: part of Plumpton Plain round barrow cemetery
- Icehouse 190m east of Firle Place
- Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon barrow cemeteries south of Juggs Road
- Bowl barrow 300m north west of Mount Harry
- Medieval farmstead at Buckham Hill, immediately north and south east of Princes
- Motte and bailey castle, fishpond and associated earthworks, SW of Isfield Church
- Medieval settlement site on eastern side of Saxon Down
- Causewayed enclosure on Offham Hill
- Three barrows on Offham Hill
- Anglo-Saxon cemetery 275m north of Comps Farm
- The Calvary (mound)
- Cross dyke and adjacent saucer barrow 850m south east of Ditchling Cross: part of Plumpton Plain round barrow cemetery
- Oldlands furnace
- Bowl barrow 700m south east of Ditchling Cross: part of Plumpton Plain round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 550m south east of Ditchling Cross: part of Plumpton Plain round barrow cemetery
- A saucer barrow and a bowl barrow 600m north west of Lewes Prison: the southerly pair of a group of three round barrows
- Two bowl barrows 190m south east of Blackcap
- Castle Hill earthwork
- Two bowl barrows 600m south east of Ditchling Cross: part of Plumpton Plain round barrow cemetery
- Isfield pound
- Motte and bailey castle 240m east of Dean's Mill
- Hillfort known as Ranscombe Camp
- Bowl Barrow South of Coombe Plantation
- Lewes Castle
- Round barrow on Cliffe Hill
- Saucer barrow 170m SW of Ditchling Cross, Plumpton Plain
- Linear earthwork S of village
- Bowl barrow north west of Warningore Bostall: part of Plumpton Plain round barrow cemetery
- Cross dyke 730m south east of Ditchling Cross
- Post-Medieval Pondbay and Overspill Channel, Wapsbourne Farm.
- Bowl barrow south of Newmarket Bottom
- A platform barrow and two bowl barrows forming a linear barrow group SSE of Offham Hill
- Oval barrow 775m south of Plumpton Place on Plumpton Plain
- Medieval moated site and Tudor ruins, Laughton Place
- Bowl barrow 200m east of Plumpton Bostall (top end)
- Bowl barrow and four hlaews on the summit of Saxon Down
- Platform barrow and saucer barrow 350m ESE of Blackcap
- Bowl barrow east of Lewes Racecourse
- Barrow field north-west of Offham Hill
- Three round barrows E of Caburn Bottom
- Bowl barrow 530m south east of Ditchling Cross: part of Plumpton Plain round barrow cemetery
- Medieval enclosure W of Newmarket Plantation
- Bowl barrow south of Coombe Plantation
- Bowl barrow 180m south west of Glyndebourne Pit
- Earthworks and lynchets on Buckland Bank and Buckland Hole
- Stock enclosure at Bible Bottom, 1.1km ENE of Lewes Golf Course Club House
- Bowl barrow 300m SSW of Glyndebourne Pit
- Four Barrows South of Coombe Plantation, Offham
- Part of Plumpton Plain round barrow cemetery and an Anglo-Saxon barrow field south east of Warningore Bostall
- Medieval ringwork at Clay Hill
- Bowl barrow on Saxon Down, 240m north west of Glyndebourne Pit
- Medieval earthworks at Balmer
- Bowl barrow 640m SSW of Saxondown Farm: part of a round barrow cemetery
- Bowl barrow 670m south west of Saxondown Farm: part of a round barrow cemetery
- Two round barrows 2/3 mile (1070m) W of Glyndebourne
- Hendall Furnace, 390m north-west of Hendall Manor Farmhouse
- Chapel of St James' Hospital
- Bowl barrow south west of The Beeches: part of Plumpton Plain round barrow cemetery
- Lewes Town Wall, section called The Green Wall
- A cross-ridge dyke and part of an adjoining cross-ridge dyke meeting at Juggs Road near Falmer Bottom
- Dovecote 160m north west of Coombe Place
- Hillfort, bowl barrow and associated remains on The Caburn
- Icehouse 140m west of Coombe Place
