Pit Field/Three Acres/Crossway Field
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Pit Field/Three Acres/Crossway Field
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 22 Jun 2014
The name of the fields according to Hurstpierpoint's 1842 tithe map that have been joined together to make a larger unit. Pit Field was in the foreground adjacent to New Way Lane whilst Crossway Field lay on the far side next to the parish boundary with Clayton. Three Acres lay in the middle. The geology here is one of greensand and thus the ridge was used to quarry sand, originally a small pit north of Image but during the 20th century a much larger pit was begun from the eastern side, an extension from the Stonepound Pit near the crossroads of the same name in Hassocks, which eventually extended up to New Way Lane. By the 1970s it was used as a refuse tip and since then has been returned to pasture.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.924819
Longitude
-0.16635