63-820: Preston Nomads Cricket Club is a cricket club based in the Village of Fulking in West Sussex , England . Founded in 1927, the club's first XI plays in the Premier League of the Sussex Cricket League which is an accredited ECB Premier League , the highest level of recreational club cricket in England and Wales. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the first XI won the Sussex Premier League six times in eight seasons (2006–13). They are current champions after winning
126-522: A 23% reduction in the size of the originally proposed national park, focussing it more narrowly on the chalk downland and excluding from it a large part of the existing East Hampshire and Sussex Downs AONBs. This proved highly controversial, leading to calls from the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England and others for the inclusion of the so-called western Weald , a region within the two AONBs possessing
189-407: A bare runnel down its floor. In one place tufted hair-grass and hard rush can be found, as though this was a Wealden meadow, not dry chalk country. In hot summer evenings male glowworms shine their blue-green light. In high summer carline thistle and cushions of thyme thrive, whilst other plants wilt, and wall brown butterfly, chalk carpet and black pyrausta moths enjoy the aridity. At
252-576: A consequence of its history , Fulking has no parish church of its own. Ecclesiastically, it remains part of the parish of Edburton, and uses St Andrew's church , Edburton, as its parish church. The church is part of the Downland Benefice , together with the churches in Poynings , Newtimber and Pyecombe . Fulking's old houses ( TQ 247 114 ) are a plum pudding of different types: one or two are made of local greensand, some are timber framed (like
315-574: A few years snowy waxcap and witches hat also reappeared. Hidden up the combe above the Shepherd and Dog is the Fulking springhead ( TQ 247 111 ). It is a cool spot with pretty monkeyflower matting the gill floor. There is fool's water cress and the stream bed has hundreds of tiny caddis cases, just like the Edburton springhead. Tenant Hill is in the very south of the parish, bordering Upper Beeding and
378-527: A geology, ecology and landscape quite different from the chalk hills of the South Downs, within the park boundary to ensure that it remained protected from development. The Secretary of State invited objections and representations on new issues relating to the proposed national park in a consultation that ran from 2 July to 13 August 2007. In the light of the responses received, the Secretary of State decided that it
441-467: A letter to Willet dated Brantwood, 16 June 1887, said ‘I was grieved by your inscription on the fountain, for it made my name far too conspicuous, nor did I feel that the slightest honour was owing to me in the matter’. There are also two associated hand pumps in the village (List Entry Number 1096867 and List Entry Number 1285792). Fulking Stream is a 'chalk stream' and runs into the River Adur . There
504-648: A northward-facing chalk escarpment that rises dramatically above the low-lying vales of the Low Weald. The chalk escarpment reaches the English Channel west of Eastbourne , where it forms the dramatic white cliffs of Beachy Head , the Seven Sisters and Seaford Head. These cliffs were formed after the end of the last ice age , when sea levels rose and the English Channel was formed, resulting in under-cutting of
567-604: A number of boundary revisions, the park incorporates two areas previously designated as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty , the East Hampshire AONB and Sussex Downs AONB . The park also includes the Queen Elizabeth Country Park near Petersfield. The South Downs National Park's chalk downland sets it apart from other national parks in Britain. However, almost a quarter (23%) of the national park consists of
630-518: A quite different and strongly contrasting physiographic region, the western Weald , whose densely wooded hills and vales are based on an older Wealden geology of resistant sandstones and softer clays. The highest point in the national park, Blackdown , at 280 m (919 ft) above sea level, is in fact situated in the Weald, on the Greensand Ridge , whereas the highest point on the chalk escarpment of
693-525: A year; additional meetings may be called to discuss planning applications. Meetings are held at Fulking Village Hall. Fulking civil parish is in Hurstpierpoint and Downs Ward of the non-metropolitan district of Mid Sussex ; the ward returns three councillors to Mid Sussex District Council. The responsibilities of district councils usually include local planning, housing, local highways, building, environmental health, and refuse collection. However,
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#1733084681715756-582: Is a Grade II listed building (List Entry Number 1354830) and the hydraulic ram bears the inscription, ‘He sendeth springs into the valleys which run among the hills | Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness’ (Psalm 104, verse 10 and Psalm 107, verse 8). The drinking fountain is also listed (List Entry Number 1334374), and bears the inscription, ‘To the glory of God | And in honour of John Ruskin | Psalm LXXVIII | That they might set their hope in God, and not forget
819-535: Is a good cluster of white and crack willow veteran trees around the confluence of the Edburton Stream and the Fulking Stream. A huge three span girth pollard crack willow on the waterside ( TQ 275 130 ) is now in a state of collapse. Many of the areas around Fulking reference Perching. Edburton , the historic parish, contained four small manors: Aburton, Paythorne, Perching and Truleigh. Of these, Perching
882-439: Is a remote place: just sheep, pylons, a rusting barn, big modern pastures, and a slim fragment of the old Down pastures where the steepness of the slopes halted the plough. The site has many old Down pasture species, including spring sedge , orchids and devil's-bit . The area used to have heath snail , too. Fulking Hill ( TQ 250 105 ) is the peak immediately west of Devil's Dyke . It also known as Fulking Tenantry Down as it
945-412: Is a wet wood of mainly outgrown ash coppice stools and is currently suffering from the ash die back disease. The woodland is too wet for many fungi, but scarlet elf cup , elastic saddle and willow shield have been found here. The Perching bostal ( TQ 241 111 ) is so deep in parts that it looks like a quarry, with bare blocks of chalk forming its walls. Water gushing down it during storms forms
1008-466: Is a white sedimentary rock, notably homogeneous and fine-grained, and very permeable. It consists of minute calcite plates ( coccoliths ) shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores . The strata include numerous layers of flint nodules , which have been widely exploited as a material for manufacture of stone tools as well as a building material for dwellings. Similar areas in Britain include
1071-478: Is at the top of the scarp slope. There is a rare Downland medieval hamlet, whose strip-cultivated open field survived until Victorian times. This is probably a result of the medieval expansion of the Perching Manor in Fulking and probably due to the presence of an underground water course in the coombe, indicated by a well about sixty metres to the west of the monument. Perching Hill's west slope ( TQ 241 105 )
1134-407: Is given the definition "pretending not to be in when the carol singers come round." South Downs National Park The South Downs National Park is England's newest national park , designated on 31 March 2010. The park, covering an area of 1,627 square kilometres (628 sq mi) in southern England, stretches for 140 kilometres (87 mi) from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in
1197-868: Is in Hampshire, 807 km (312 sq mi) in West Sussex and 237 km (92 sq mi) in East Sussex. Among the district council areas, Chichester District has the largest area at 544 km (210 sq mi), followed by East Hampshire District with 279 km (108 sq mi), Winchester with 265 km (102 sq mi), Lewes District with 159 km (61 sq mi) and Arun 102 km (39 sq mi). 93 km (36 sq mi) are in Horsham District and 60 km (23 sq mi) in Wealden District. Apart from
1260-551: Is in the Arundel and South Downs constituency . Fulking is the home of the Preston Nomads Cricket Club . The club was founded in 1927 Preston, Brighton . When it was founded, the club did not have its own ground; hence the ‘Nomads’ element of the name. It played on whatever council-run pitches were available. in 1937, Spenta (Spen) Cama, one of the founding members of the club, bought some fields in Fulking which formed
1323-614: Is no longer a working farm. Where the light soils of 'the sands', the Lower Greensand , are ploughed, plants like bugloss , sticky mouse ear , thale cress , and field pansy grow, and the glossy ant spider , (which pretends to be an ant) loves it. However, despite the productivity of the soil, the line of old farms have mainly been bought by people wishing to enjoy the traditional farmsteads and large gardens. On this fertile outcrop only South Tottington Sands and Poynings Grange are still working farms. Perching Hovel Wood ( TQ 239 119 )
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#17330846817151386-582: Is one of the three surviving Down pasture commons on the Brighton Downs. It had at least four prehistoric barrows, but only two are now visible above ground. One of them marks the southern end of the eastern boundary of the common and the other sits by the South Downs Way above the Fulking Hill western bostal. That is a fine example, still with its flowery turf. On the western side of its dip slope, there
1449-423: Is the remains of a late Nineteenth Century water supply system. A hydraulic ram , housed in small building near the Shepherd and Dog public house, pumped water from Fulking Hill to a reservoir at the western end of the village street, where a drinking fountain and water trough were provided. The water was then fed by gravity to two further reservoirs, supplying two hand pumps along the street. The building housing
1512-643: The Council for the Preservation of Rural England , led by campaigners including the geographer Vaughan Cornish , submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister urging the case for national parks, including a national park on part of the South Downs. When however, towards the end of World War II , John Dower was asked to report on how a system of national parks in England and Wales might be established, his 1945 report, National Parks in England and Wales , did not identify
1575-542: The East Hampshire AONB in 1962 and the Sussex Downs AONB in 1966. These were later to form the basis of the South Downs National Park. In September 1999 the government, following a review of national parks policy, declared support for a South Downs National Park, and announced a consultation on its creation. In January 2003 the then Countryside Agency (now Natural England ) made an Order to designate
1638-462: The Brighton Downland. To its west side is an area known as Paythorne Down ( TQ 239 095 ). The site is over a third of a mile long and has very little scrub except some gorse and thorn at the northern end, and there is strong lynchetting at the southern end, where there was a Roman peasant farm. At the northern end, at the base of the gorsey slope, there was a medieval peasant farm. The site has
1701-558: The Downs during the 19th and 20th centuries. By contrast, the park includes a number of towns situated in the western Weald , including Petersfield , Liss , Midhurst and Petworth , and the two historic Sussex towns of Arundel and Lewes . The total population living within the national park is approximately 108,000. Of these 42,000 live in Hampshire, 40,000 in West Sussex and 25,000 in East Sussex. East Hampshire District Council area and Chichester District each have around 30,000 residents in
1764-630: The Fulking Stream meets the Poynings Stream at Fullingmill Bridge ( TQ 243 125 ) and cuts north through the Lower Greensand ridge to form a short rocky gill ( TQ 248 125 ). The word 'gill' is found only in the Weald and the English northwest, and refers to the deep clefts (mini ravines) carved there by aeons of busy tumbling streams. Although most Sussex gills are in the High Weald, there are some in
1827-594: The Low Weald too such as this one. The public footpath crosses the gill at the Fullingmill Bridge above the rocky waterfall which crashes to a shady pool below. It is a regular spot for grey wagtail . There is a grand veteran oak perched on the steep bank above the east side of the pool, as well as a little willow carr wood nearby. Beyond the gill to the north, the Stream slows, and there are black tailed skimmers and demoiselles ( TQ 243 128 ). Perching Sands Farm
1890-605: The Shepherd and Dog pub, under its stucco ), some flint, some brick, one or two thatched, even one with a corrugated iron extension. The house are mainly expensive, but not exclusively and it has some council-built homes. Since the Norman conquest one thousand years ago, the Crown Estate owned the Poynings Estate which covered around 4000 acres including many farms in the Weald and on the Downs at Fulking, Poynings and Pyecombe . It
1953-467: The South Downs for national park status, but rather included it in a list of "other amenity areas". Sir Arthur Hobhouse 's 1947 Report of the National Parks Committee took a different view, and he included the South Downs in his list of twelve areas recommended for designation as a national park, defined by John Dower as an "extensive area of beautiful and relatively wild country in which, for
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2016-579: The South Downs, Butser Hill , has an elevation of 271 m (889 ft) above sea level. Within the national park there are two chalk hill figures , the Litlington White Horse and the Long Man of Wilmington . Most of the national park consists of chalk downland , although a significant part consists of the sandstones and clays of the western Weald , a strongly contrasting and distinctive landscape of densely wooded hills and vales. The chalk
2079-673: The Sussex Premier league in 2021. 1st XI 2nd XI This article about a cricket team in England is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fulking Fulking is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex , England. The parish lies wholly with the South Downs National Park . The parish is located on the north slopes of the South Downs , five miles (8 km) to
2142-488: The antiquity of this pasture. Clappers Lane to the east of the parish, running north from Fulking village, was once probably an old swine pasture drove. More recently it was once a place of market gardens and orchards, but it is no longer either as small scale horticulture has suffered from the European competition and the giant economies of scale demanded by the supermarkets and major retail outlets. The Lane takes its name from
2205-402: The area and Lewes District 22,000. Winchester has 11,500 residents in the park, with much smaller numbers for the other districts and boroughs. The area receives about 39 million visits each year, which is thought likely to increase as a result of the creation of the national park. The national park has an area of 1,625 km (627 sq mi), of which 544 km (210 sq mi)
2268-560: The base of the bostal is the grassed over remains of a chalk pit with its Victorian lime kiln beautifully restored. There's another one south of Edburton church, too. The Perching bostal climbs up the bank to the Perching Hill. To the east, Fulking bostals are less well trod and rise to Fulking Hill. The escarpment forms part of the Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill Site of Special Scientitic Interest ( SSSI ). Perching Hill ( TQ 244 109 )
2331-415: The case for the South Downs as a national park, it found designation no longer appropriate, noting that the value of the South Downs as a potential national park had been reduced by cultivation. It did however recognise the "great natural beauty" of the area, and proposed it be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty . In due course two AONBs were designated, split along the county boundary, namely
2394-531: The chair of SDNPA is Vanessa Rowlands, and the chief executive (interim) is Tim Slaney. The South Downs National Park stretches for 140 km (87 mi) across southern England from St Catherine's Hill near Winchester in Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head , near Eastbourne in East Sussex in the east. In its western half, the southern boundary of the park lies up to 10 km (6.2 mi) inland from
2457-603: The chalk by the sea. The South Downs run linearly west-north-westwards from the Eastbourne area through southern Sussex to the Hampshire downs, separating the south coastal plain from the clays and sandstones of the Weald . Behind the escarpment, on the dip slope, are the characteristic high, smooth, rolling downland hills interrupted by dry valleys and wind gaps, and the major river gaps of the Cuckmere , Ouse , Adur and Arun . The chalk
2520-648: The early plank (clapper) bridge across the Poynings Stream ( TQ 250 125 ). Just north of the bridge over the Poynings Stream and to the east of the Lane is a fine little marsh in a gully ( TQ 250 128 ) with great tussock sedge , some carnation and black sedge , ragged robin , water figwort , which support a good number of butterfly including common blue and green-veined whites . Fulking Parish Council has five parish councillors. The Parish Council holds an annual meeting (usually in May) and at least three other ordinary meetings
2583-408: The east through the counties of Hampshire , West Sussex and East Sussex . The national park covers the chalk hills of the South Downs (which on the English Channel coast form the white cliffs of the Seven Sisters and Beachy Head ) and a substantial part of a separate physiographic region, the western Weald , with its heavily wooded sandstone and clay hills and vales. The South Downs Way spans
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2646-418: The entire length of the park and is the only National Trail that lies wholly within a national park. The idea of a South Downs National Park originated in the 1920s, when public concern was mounting about increasing threats to the beautiful downland environment, particularly the impact of indiscriminate speculative housing development on the eastern Sussex Downs ( Peacehaven was an example of this). In 1929,
2709-476: The following duty: The SDNPA is a public body, funded by central government, and run by a board of twenty seven members. The board consists of seven national members, appointed by the environment secretary by means of an open recruitment process; fourteen local authority nominees drawn from the fifteen local authorities covering the park area with Adur and Worthing opting to share a place; and six parish council representatives, two for each county. As at June 2024,
2772-695: The inquiry were expected by the end of 2005, but were delayed pending a legal issue arising from a High Court case challenging part of the Order designating the New Forest National Park . Following an appeal on the High Court case and new legislation included in the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, the South Downs Inquiry report was published on 31 March 2006. It recommended
2835-532: The market square of Petersfield , a town situated in the western Weald just 4 km (2.5 mi) north of the chalk escarpment of the South Downs. In 2016 the national park was granted International Dark Sky Reserve status, to restrict artificial light pollution above the park. It was the second such area in England and the 11th in the world. The national park is administered by the South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA). The SDNPA
2898-499: The nation's benefit...the characteristic landscape beauty is strictly preserved". The South Downs was the last of the original twelve recommended national parks to be designated. Extensive damage to the chalk downland from 1940 onwards through arable farming, and a resulting decline in sheep grazing, militated at an early stage against further work on designation. When in 1956 the National Parks Commission came to consider
2961-459: The north-west of Brighton , sandwiched between the Upper Beeding and Poynings parish. The civil parish covers an area of 628.31 hectares (1,552.6 acres). The downland scarp, which includes the Fulking and Perching bostals (paths), is part of the Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill designated Site of Special Scientific Interest . Fulking was originally part of the parish of Edburton . The parish
3024-471: The nucleus of the club's current ground. Further land purchases in 1955 and 1991 extended the club's grounds to their current size. The club's pavilion was opened in 1982. Preston Nomads Cricket Club was a founder member of the Sussex Cricket League in 1971. The club runs four men's Saturday League teams and one on Sundays. The club has a junior section and runs a coaching programme. In The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd "Fulking"
3087-440: The order confirming the designation. He confirmed that a number of hotly disputed areas – including the western Weald, the town of Lewes and the village of Ditchling – would be included within the national park. The new national park came into full operation on 1 April 2011 when the new South Downs National Park Authority assumed statutory responsibility for it. The occasion was marked by an opening ceremony which took place in
3150-746: The parish lies wholly with the South Downs National Park . The planning authority for Fulking is therefore the South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA), the statutory planning authority for the National Park area. Fulking civil parish is in the Hurstpierpoint and Bolney electoral division of the non-metropolitan county of West Sussex . The division returns one councillor to West Sussex County Council. The functions of county councils include education, transport, strategic planning, fire services, consumer protection, refuse disposal, social services and libraries. Fulking civil parish
3213-521: The proposed park in 2003 which was submitted to the Secretary of State for the Environment on 27 January 2003. As a result of objections and representations received on the proposed Order, a public inquiry was conducted between 10 November 2003 and 23 March 2005, with the aim of recommending to ministers whether a national park should be confirmed and, if so, where its boundaries should be. The results of
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#17330846817153276-428: The rare field fleawort , which flowers in late spring and early summer and is often associated with prehistoric sites. In spring, too, it has cowslip, hairy violet , skylark and meadow pipit , and some lizards. There are not great displays of flowers here, especially because of the year long grazing, but this site has three small snails: the blind snail , the scree snail and the moss snail , all three indicative of
3339-411: The south coast; it thus excludes the major coastal towns and cities of Southampton , Portsmouth , Chichester , Bognor Regis and Littlehampton . Further east, where the park's southern boundary lies much closer to the coast, it has been carefully drawn to exclude the urban areas of Worthing , Brighton and Hove , Newhaven , Seaford and Eastbourne , which had all made substantial encroachments onto
3402-481: The two bostals cross near the bottom of the slope is very rich with herbs and chalk loving butterflies. There are lots of cowslips. Almost as interesting, though, is the way the common's dip slope has recovered under the National Trust ’s management since it was put back down to grass after half a century of tillage. As soon as the pasture returned the gorse reappeared miraculously from the long-dormant seed bank. After
3465-463: The works of God | But keep his commandments | Who brought streams also out of the rock’ (Psalm 58, verses 7 and 16) The system was installed in 1886. Henry Willett , a wealthy brewer from Brighton, and John Ruskin are usually credited with devising and instigating the water supply scheme. However, contemporary newspaper accounts give credit for the scheme to Rev. F. Gell, rector to Edburton, with generous support from Henry Willet. Ruskin himself, in
3528-594: Was a working medieval strip cultivated open field until late 19th century. There were twenty three strips of around an acre each in size. The very tall old lynchets on the dip slope of these strips ( TQ 246 103 ) are where the old Down pasture wildlife survives. There are bits of betony , rockrose and rampion , and in autumn there is scarlet hood , golden , and other waxcaps making splashes of colour. The scarp slope grasslands and bostal have their aboriginal turf intact and full of interest. Some years there are fly , spotted and twayblade orchids. The short turf where
3591-432: Was added to Upper Beeding parish in 1933. Fulking transferred from East Sussex to West Sussex with the creation of Mid Sussex District in 1974. Fulking sits along the spring line at the Downs foot where the fertile band of Upper Greensand and Grey Chalk attracted early farmers to build a string of hamlets and villages including Fulking itself, Tottington, Truleigh, Edburton, Perching, Poynings and Newtimber. As
3654-480: Was all sold between 1980 and 1984 to tenant farmers, but some have noted that in public ownership, the estate could have been at the heart of the new South Downs National Park driving forward sustainable farming and landscape restoration. Fulking civil parish contains 22 listed buildings . Of these, one is Grade II* and the remaining 21 are Grade II. The Grade II* listed building is: The parish contains four scheduled monuments . A distinctive feature of Fulking
3717-411: Was appropriate to re-open the 2003–05 public inquiry. The inquiry re-opened on 12 February 2008 and was closed on 4 July 2008 after 27 sitting days. The Inspector's report was submitted on 28 November 2008. On 31 March 2009 the result of the inquiry was published. The Secretary of State , Hilary Benn , announced that the South Downs would be designated a national park, and on 12 November 2009 he signed
3780-531: Was by far the most important. The name Perching comes from the Saxon, people of the paddock (or small enclosure). Perching had a watermill in 1086 when the Domesday Book was compiled. This was used to grind the grain grown by the lord of the manor and his tenants. So called because the area sits the fertile bands of Upper and Lower Greensand and Grey Chalk , this is a special area. Just east of Perching Sands Farm
3843-532: Was established on 1 April 2010, and became fully functioning, including becoming the planning authority for the national park, on 1 April 2011. It is responsible for promoting the statutory purposes of the national park and the interests of the people who live and work within it. The statutory purposes of the SDNPA, as a national park authority, are specified by the Environment Act 1995 ; these are: It must also fulfil
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#17330846817153906-576: Was formed in the Late Cretaceous epoch , between 100 million and 66 million years ago, when the area was under the sea. During the Cenozoic era the chalk was uplifted as part of the Weald uplift which created the great Weald-Artois Anticline , caused by the same orogenic movements that created the Alps. The relatively resistant chalk rock has, through weathering , resulted in a classic cuesta landform, with
3969-596: Was unusual in that part lay in Bramber rape and Burbeach hundred and part in Lewes rape and Poynings hundred (usually parish boundaries followed rape boundaries). The civil parish of Fulking was created from the eastern half of the ancient parish (sometimes referred to as 'the ecclesiastical parish') in 1894, after the creation of the administrative counties of West Sussex (which incorporated Bramber Rape) and East Sussex (which incorporated Lewes Rape) in 1889. The remainder of Edburton
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