As you travel over the forest, just past King’s Standing you come across a fenced off area now owned by Sussex police. However, behind the barbed wire lies the story of how Britain managed to flood Germany with fake transmissions during World War II.
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Your Places
The Biggest Aspidistra in Crowborough
Crowborough War Memorial Hospital
Front Entrance of Crowborough War Memorial Hospital
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St John’s Church – The first parish church in Crowborough
Located on the edge of the Ashdown Forest the Church of St John the Evangelist was built in 1839 by the De La Warr family as a Chapel of Ease within the Parish of Withyham, to serve the small hamlet of Crowborough (known later as Old Town or St John’s).
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Canadian War Memorial
At around 7.30 on the evening of the 5th July 1944, workers in the field heard a noise and looked up to see a V1 flying bomb coming down over the golf course. Then the sound stopped. More »
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