Poynings Village near Brighton

Surplus Vegetables etc?

Swap/donate your surplus veg/fruit/plants
There is a stall in Forge Garage forecourt

No produce? - take stuff and put money in Church repair fund jar

'Menage a Trois' will be playing French Jazz in the gardens, from around 1.30pm until 5.30pm.

As a change from their usual barbecues they will be featuring a Seafood & Oyster Bar in the garden, together with a Champagne & Pimms Bar.

There are no tickets & everyone will be welcome to while away the (hopefully balmy) afternoon with a drink or two. They are taking reservations inside the main building or on the terraced areas up to 1.30pm. There will be plenty of tables in the garden.

Call hosts Alex or Nick on 01273 857389 to reserve your table !

Only a few days to Fulking’s Favourite Summer Extravaganza...
Barn Dancing, wine, pony rides, bric-a -brack, bunjy run, dog show and more.

End of Summer Holiday get together

August Bank Holiday - Sunday 29th August.

Village Hall
Friends and families welcome

Fancy Dress from the Royal Oak at 2pm (theme is the letter "A") via the causeway to the Village Hall. Prize for the winner.

Children's traditional games 3.30pm - Egg and spoon etc.

Also, there are races in the morning for you fit ones!
Ring Mike Airey on 857985

Fancy looking round Poynings without leaving your chair?

Well, now you can, Sheila has put up some brilliant pictures of Poynings here
If you want to see them as a slide show then click the button nearly at the top on the right. Or click here
To be even more impressed, then click the full screen button (four arrows) on the bottom right hand side.

There are a growing number of people in the area, who have expressed an interest in organically raising their own livestock on a small scale basis.

We are therefore looking for an initial 1 or 2 acres of land locally, with easy access, appropriate for farming pigs.

It is our dream to grow this into a 'River Cottage' style community based project involving any locals interested in participating and learning about the grass roots aspects of smallholding.

Please contact Stephen or Lesley on 834610 if you have any land that may be appropriate or if you would just like to add your details to the growing list of interested smallholders!

Thank you for sending these pictures to me, if you made a snowman send me a picture and I will put it here.

Choose an image to begin

LOST DOG IN POYNINGS
You must have heard about the lost dog spotted in Poynings. She actually went missing from Hove on October 31st, and is now seen regularly and fed so there is a good chance she will be caught.
She looks like a leonberger cross. Rusty gold colour (fawn) fluffy coat (probably soaking wet though!)

Black face and ears quite skinny across her back
Called Kalunga
Lost dog in Poynings

If you spot her, please try not to approach her as it will scare her off. She is extremely timid, and will run if she feels intimidated.
2. If anyone finds her wandering in their garden, this may be the best hope of capturing her. If gates can be closed around her (without intimidating her), this would be ideal. Food could then be used to keep her 'interested' - she particularly likes raw meat, especially fish.

She is a bit daft! She doesn't understand roads, and if chased she may end up underneath a car.

If spotted give Craig a call on 07886 271 411

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

You may have seen Sheila suspiciously lurking by the Pumpkin recently and if you weren't careful you may have ended up having you photo taken. Check here to see if you ended up in the Pumpkin Heads rogue gallery.

Poynings is a small village hiding at the base of the Devils Dyke just north of Brighton and it has a population of about 280.

Poynings has a 14th century cruciform Church and if you look at the front of the porch you will see that it is made of flints so beautifully shaped that they fit together like bricks. There is some and has magnificent 15th Century stained glass. It is known as one of the finest village medieval churches in Sussex. The tower is 58 feet high, and accessed by probably the oldest wooden ladder in Sussex! In the Apex of the porch gable you can just see a carved shield which isn't mentioned in any guide books. The arms are those of the Poynings family. The brothers Thomas and Richard de Poynings built the church as it now stands in 1370. This coat of Arms can also be seen on the village sign opposite the church at Cora's corner. Cora's memory lingers here with the corner named after her and a walk, along which has a series of seats presented by the Emile Littler Foundation.

There is also a pub, playing field, cricket pitch (which is well maintained by trained sheep), school/village hall and lots of interesting people.

South and uphill of Poynings is the Devil’s Dyke, a steep coombe, surmounted by an Iron Age fort and provides superb views of the South Downs westwards across to Chanctonbury ring and northwards over the Weald. A railway used to run here from Brighton until the late 1930's which was packed with hysterical day-trippers. A raised bank by the row of cottages below the hotel was the end of the line. If you look carefully, you can still find in the banks on either side of the Dyke, the footings of the structure which strung cable cars across the gulf around the turn of the century. A hundred yards to the east of the restaurant car park there is a slab of concrete for the funicular railway which shot down the steep slope to Poynings from 1897.

The Old School is now the village hall, and in the village centre nestles Glebe Cottage, constructed from flint, with a slate roof and tiny windows.

This is a community site so please visit it often and don't forget to add your views on our Forum. Especially the younger ones in the village (Must be over 1 month).

I hope you will find this easy to use and will encourage more of you to give me some feedback, information and gossip!!

I make no apologies to shamelessly plagiarizing Sheila's hard work on the Newsletter, and all the other contributors.

On the left hand side you should see links to other parts of the site and some offsite links.

Welcome to Poynings Website