Buncton Crossways
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Buncton Crossways
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 31 Mar 2013
The crossroads provides a meeting point from Chanctonbury Ring Road, Water Lane and Steyning Road, the A283. The former two are the older routes owing their origins to an ancient north-south droveway that linked the Downs to woodland pastures in the Weald. Its route can still be traced today from Chanctonbury Hill down Wiston Borstal, then Chanctonbury Ring Road, Water Lane, North Lane and London Road before reaching what is now the A24, another old droveway at Woodman's Farm. The younger of the two routes is the east-west one which was constructed as a turnpike in the 1770s to replace the older east-west route running along the foot of the Downs. The route was funded by the Gorings of Wiston House whose park expansions had near enough cleared the old settlement of Wiston many of whose inhabitants had shifted northwards to its current position along Water Lane which in effect reinvigorated the deserted medieval settlement of Buncton.
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