Herstmonceux Castle

Herstmonceux Castle (c. 1440) housed Britain’s Royal Greenwich Observatory, formerly located at Greenwich, between 1948 and 1990. The University of Sussex was opened at Falmer near Brighton in 1961. Hops are grown in the county, but not so extensively as in the past, and cattle…

…the site of the well-known castle of Herstmonceux, completed about 1444 by Sir Roger de Fiennes as a fortified manor surrounded by a moat. It is one of the finest early brick buildings in England. The parish also contains All Saints Church, which dates from the late 12th century. Herstmonceux…