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5 unusual facts about Withyham


Philip Vian

Vian married, on 2 December 1929, Marjorie Price, daughter of Colonel David Price Haig, OBE, of Withyham, in Sussex.

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In 1849 a set of four paintings was donated to the church: it is thought they are the work of Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (c1340–1414).

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The village of Withyham features in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Horror of the Heights as the finding place of the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment, a supposedly real fragment of a diary detailing the airborne adventures of the author of the diary.

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New Groombridge is also within the parish, Old Groombridge is in the Speldhurst District of Kent.

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There have been two houses at Buckhurst for many centuries: the older Buckhurst House, now no more, and the present day ‘’Buckhurst Park’’: both have been in the hands of the Sackville family for generations; today Earl De La Warr, a member of the family, lives there.


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