The Little Turret

June 2018 · 2 min read

The Little Turret - Ocklynge Manor

This little turret used to be the look out post for the London to Eastbourne post coach and horses, in approximately 1720!

You can find it in the garden of Ocklynge Manor which, these days, is a bed and breakfast in Eastbourne in Sussex.

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When I visited, a couple of years ago, it wasn't possible to enter the turret as it was in need of repair.

I still found it to be a very pretty corner of the garden though and it was very relaxing sitting on the bench in the shade.

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Another interesting fact about Ocklynge Manor is that the Peter Pan illustrator, Mabel Lucie Attwell, lived there at one point and there is an historic blue plaque on the road-side wall to confirm this.

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event - serving as a kind of historical marker. Source

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Here's a drawing by Mabel Lucie Attwell showing The Staircase at Ocklynge Manor which was used as the basis for one of her illustrations.