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The Pump sits on the top of the Southern ridge of the Brede valley - a designated Area of Outstanding Beauty. There are footpaths that criss cross the valley and a mile and a half of very good path that takes you across the fields to Sedlescombe - our local village with good gastro-ish pub, village shop and post office and a village green occupied by the Sedlescombe traffic calming measures - a herd of white geese.
Nearby (5 miles) is Battle - home of English Heritage’s Battle Abbey where the Viking King Harold supposedly took one in the eye from William the Conqueror thus handing Britain over to the Normans. Bookshops, boutique food and clothes shops, good pubs and Battle Great Woods.
To the South is the sea. Hastings with good music and a beautiful Old Town also has one of the very few surviving beach launched fishing fleets - so fresh and excellent fish markets. The beach has a small rather merry fun fair and what claims to be a world beating crazy golf course. Again, good restaurants and some really interesting arty elements in the smarter bits of St Leonards that reflect the post-Covid exodus from London and Brighton.
Hastings also has great caves (bit over Disneyfied, but you still get some very cool big spaces) and one of 7 areas in the UK allowed to call itself a Glen (think the other 6 are all in the Highlands). It’s a remarkable series of unspoilt, water carved natural gorges with the odd Dartmoor pony or Highland Coo around if you can find them. Phenomenal views across the channel and down the headlands of the coast toward Beachy Head.
About 15 mins along the coast from us is Pett Level, pretty much the only undeveloped stretch of beach between Dover and Brighton. This is mostly because it backs onto a vast bird reserve which benefited from the extra protection from the relentless push to develop the coast that having Paul and Linda McCartney living on the edge ensured! It’s a stunning beach, usually empty and with a petrified forest revealed at low tide. Good cafe as well.
East of us is Rye, full of smart antique shops, proper ice cream and more good places to eat. One of the pre-Napoleonic cinq ports, Rye is ridiculously pretty and has an increasingly internationally known jazz festival. It also has a classy little art house cinema. There are seals at the mouth of the harbour.