Highdown Hill, Sussex

Historical Description

Highdown Hill, an eminence in Sussex, 1½ mile NW of Goring, and 2 miles N of the sea. It commands a very beautiful view, is crowned by an irregular earthwork, and has within that earthwork a famous " miller's tomb "-that of a miller in the vicinity who died in 1793, and who erected the tomb and prepared his coffin 30 years before his death.

Maps

Online maps of Highdown Hill are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer