Next Meeting
. The Wall Hill Mail Coach Robbery. Jim French. A super talk on an infamous local event. Click here for details and for other 2024 events. Sport Archive This is a new page following receiving an old photo from Graeme Baxter. Click here Burial Ground The Standing family has just been updated following the receipt of new information. Click here Nick Turner. Nick has published articles in the Horsted Keynes Parish Magazine. He has kindly allowed us to use these fascinating reminiscences about post war rural life on our site. The April article on sheep shearing and local dialect is here. |
Danehill Burial Ground Project
More than 130 families,from Lords and Ladies to farm labourers, have now been researched, many in enormous detail, by Mat Weller and Elizabeth Broadbridge. The reports paint a fascinating picture. Click here.
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Danehill Parish Historical Society was founded in 1972 with our first president being Dame Margery Corbett Ashby DBE (pictured in 1923).
The objectives of the society are to promote interest in, and the study of local history in particular, or any other historical matter of interest, bringing together local residents or other people to share and enjoy a range of social and informal activities.
The Society is a member of:-
The objectives of the society are to promote interest in, and the study of local history in particular, or any other historical matter of interest, bringing together local residents or other people to share and enjoy a range of social and informal activities.
The Society is a member of:-
- British Association for Local History
- Friends of The East Sussex Record Office
- The Sussex Archaeological Society
Danehill Recruits who joined the Royal Sussex Regiment, 1914