The Canadian Connection

Mr Len Wickham has walked Crowborough Common his whole life.   Here he is, as a boy, with Canadian soldiers on the fifth fairway (front right).

During the Second World War, a Canadian army camp close to Crowborough Common was hit by a flying bomb.   On the east side of the fourth fairway in light woodland is a memorial (above) dedicated to the nine Canadian soldiers from the Lincoln and Welland Regiment, who died.  The 65th Anniversary was on July 5th, 2009. 

Early Maps of Crowborough Common

Crowborough Common is over 450 years old.  Below is a 16th century map that includes the common. 

 Reproduced from the Buckhurst Terrier 1597 with kind permission of the Sussex Records Society

Below is a map compiled using 16th century data.

Reproduced from ‘Rotherfield – The Story of Some Wealden Manors’ by Catharine Pullein, p.437 (published by Courier, 1928)  www.theweald.org/bk.asp?BookId=Pullein000

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