2013
TQ4730 : View from Kings Standing Clump, Ashdown Forest
taken 11 years ago, near to Poundgate, East Sussex, England
View from Kings Standing Clump, Ashdown Forest
Ashdown Forest is a former medieval hunting forest, and is the highest ridge of the High Weald. At ten square miles it is the largest open access area in the South East. Ashdown Forest was purchased by East Sussex County Council from the De La Warr family in 1988. It is now managed by a Board of Conservators. Nearly two thirds of it is heathland. One of the characteristics of the Forest are isolated clumps of trees. Kings Standing Clump is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. There is evidence of Iron Age and Roman occupation of the site, Kings Standing takes its name from the practice from Tudor times onwards of hunting deer from standings. Rather than pursuing deer, hunters stood on elevated structures past which the seer were driven from nearby enclosures and shot at from close range.
In about 1825, the clump was planted with Scots pines by the De La Warr family, but many of the trees were destroyed by the local commoners.
This is the view from the edge of Kings Standing Clump looks towards the extensive woods on either side of the B2188 to Groombridge.
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