Filled in ponds in the Shortbrook valley at Maresfield
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Image: © Alan Ford Taken: 1 Dec 2008
These are probably pen ponds to store water for a Post Medieval forge that lies to the south east. These ponds are shown on a 1793 Estate map held by the Record Office at Lewes but were infilled by the time a second Estate map was made in 1822. The Forge (probably the Faulkener Forge) has pond bays (to power a blast furnace) into which these pen ponds would have fed. The Faulkener forge was in operation between c. 1574 and 1788.
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