Pett Village Part 1

Our village of Pett, is strung out in what is called ribbon development. This means that the houses are built along the main road with the exception of some built along the lanes. 

The main road is called Pett Road (surprise surprise)

Leading off from this are:- Peter James Lane, Rosemary Lane, Watermill Lane (where we live and where Freshwinds garden is) Pannel Lane and Elm Lane. 

On Thursday we walked half the length of the village between Watermill Lane and Pannel Lane. I will have to do the other half another time. I decided to take photos as I went for this blog entry.

The village is looking very pretty with all the daffodils in full bloom.

This photo is taken at the top of Watermill Lane. New trees have been planted here and at other locations along the main road. It is supposed to discourage cars from speeding. This is a problem.

This is Forge Cottage. Pretty obvious what this once was.

More daffodils opposite the Two Sawyers.

This pub is within walking distance of Freshwinds Camping site.

It is a 16th Century Inn. It has a character bar with log fires serving guest ales, beers, wines, and free wi-fi. The restaurant serves traditional pub food twice a day. 

www.twosawyers.co.uk 

Just a little further along is our relatively new village hall.
This where I do my body sculpting exercise class every Thursday morning with Robin.

 

Pett Village hall was built in 2002 and replaced an old but cherished building that had served the village well for 80 years. The new hall was the product of much determination and hard work put in by many parishioners and supported by the whole village. It could not have been built without the financial assistance given by the local councils and massive grant aid from the lottery board.The whole community now has a superb facility that everyone is very proud of.

http://www.pettvillagehall.org.uk 

The magnolias in one of the gardens was looking superb.

This is the new post office. There is much talk in the village about what will happen when Tony retires at the end of the year. No-one wants to lose the local post office.

Postbox with a view to a misty Fairlight (south) plus a cattle trough.

 This is Pett Methodist Chapel.

 And this is the old Pett School. It is a listed building. When I was at primary school in the early 50`s all the villages had their own schools....Guestling, Fairlight and Pett. When I was about seven, they were amalgamated into one, at Guestling. The children from the other villages were bussed in each day.

This building was originally the village school, and the school master's house.
Dated 1847. School End, which was the school itself,
is the west wing. The Old School House, which was
the school master's house at the east end, is of two storeys.

 

This is the old post office next to the church.

It is estimated to be selling for £444,000.

The church of St.Mary and St. Peter.

It was built in 1864 by Benjaman Ferry.

This stile in the church wall allows humans through but not animals.

 

 This view is taken from the top of Pannel Lane.

On one side of the lane the tiny cottages....there are three here....Meadowsweet, this end and Knights Cottage on the far end. I did some gardening for an elderly lady here when I first retired. I don`t recall the name of the middle one.

Just on the corner a good example of a flint wall, 

typical in Sussex.
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In the next lane the wild flowers and blossom were stunning.

Here are just a few of my photos.

May blossom.

Celandine.

Dandelion.

Pannel Lane was full of primroses. We walked to Icklesham, the next village heading north, and we had lunch at the Queens Head. Then we walked all the way home. It took two and a half hours, not counting lunchtime.