[Highways & Byways in Sussex by E.V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookHighways & Byways in Sussex CHAPTER XIV 2/8
The line:-- This verse to Caryll, Muse, is due, is the poet's testimony and thanks.
John Gay, who found life a jest, has also walked amid the West Grinstead bracken. West Grinstead church is isolated in the fields, a curiously pretty and cheerful building, with a very charming porch and a modest shingled spire rising from its midst.
Brasses to members of the Halsham family are within, and a monument to Captain Powlett, whose unquiet ghost, hunting without a head, we have just met.
Hard by the church is one of the most attractive and substantial of the smaller manor houses of Sussex, square and venerable and well-roofed with Horsham stone. A mile to the west, in a meadow by the Worthing road, stands the forlorn fragment of the keep which is all that remains of the Norman stronghold of Knepp.
For its other stones you must seek the highways, the road-menders having claimed them a hundred years ago.
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