Saddlescombe

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d) SADDLESCOMBE: This small hamlet, just a farm and a few cottages around a pond, lies in Newtimber parish just to the east of the Devil’s Dyke. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book as ‘Salescome’, and from the fourteenth century until the sixteenth the manor was a preceptory of the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller. The present farmhouse dates mainly from the 1700s, but nearby is a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century weather-boarded well-house enclosing a donkey-wheel and a 150-foot shaft; the well was in use until around 1910. In October 1926 the manorial estate of Saddlescombe was acquired for £10,215 by Brighton Corporation. {1,45,305}

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