The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . r ? <^Bk -??: :<r#&- * ? o^g^aT^c^^ of the nave arcade, are the recumbent effigies of SirJohn de Ifield and his lady. The knight died in is represented as an armed Crusader, cross-legged,1 a position, to quote Thomas Ingoldsby, soprized by Templars in ancient and tailors in moderndays. The old pews came from St. But so dark is the church that detailscan onlv with difficulty be examined, and to emergefrom the murk of this interior is to blink again in thelight of day, however dull that day may be. 180 TH
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . r ? <^Bk -??: :<r#&- * ? o^g^aT^c^^ of the nave arcade, are the recumbent effigies of SirJohn de Ifield and his lady. The knight died in is represented as an armed Crusader, cross-legged,1 a position, to quote Thomas Ingoldsby, soprized by Templars in ancient and tailors in moderndays. The old pews came from St. But so dark is the church that detailscan onlv with difficulty be examined, and to emergefrom the murk of this interior is to blink again in thelight of day, however dull that day may be. 180 THE BRIGHTON ROAD From Ifield Church, a long and exceeding straightroad leads in one mile to Ifield Hammer Pond. Hereis one of the many sources of the little river Mole,whose trickling tributaries spread over all theneighbouring valley. The old mill standing beside the. IFIELD MILL POND. hatch bears on its brick substructure the date 1683,but the white-painted, boarded mill itself is evidentlyof much later date. Before a mill stood here at all, this was the site SUSSEX IRON 181 of one of the most important ironworks in Sussex,when Sussex iron paid for the smelting. Ironstone had been known to exist here even in thedays of the Roman occupation, when Anderida,extending from the sea to London, was all one vastforest. Heaps of slag and cinders have been found,containing Roman coins and implements of contem-porary date, proving that iron was smelted here tosome extent even then. But it was not until the latterpart of the Tudor period that the industry attainedits greatest height. Then, according to Camden, the Weald of Sussex was full of iron-mines, and thebeating of hammers upon the iron filled the neighbour-hood round about with continual noise. The iron-stone was smelted with charcoal made from the foresttrees that then covered the land, and it was not
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