Furner's Green
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| Furner's Green shown within East Sussex | |
| OS grid reference | TQ409267 |
| • London | 33 miles (53 km) N |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | UCKFIELD |
| Postcode district | TN22 |
| Dialling code | 01825 |
| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | East Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Furner's Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Danehill in East Sussex, England.
Furner's Green lies on the Greenwich Meridian about 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Uckfield and approximately 7 miles (11 km) to the east of Haywards Heath on the southern edge of Ashdown Forest.
Lime kilns at Annwood Farm ('Handwood Farm' on the 1795 Ordnance Survey map) are shown on the 1875 Ordnance Survey map. Lime would have been used locally to improve the heavy, clay-rich Wealden soil, in the mixing of mortar for construction, and was also used in Sussex for plasterwork and 'white washing'. There is no evidence of limestone outcropping in this area, but Sussex does have small workable outcrops of 'Sussex Marble' or 'Winklestone' and so it is likely that chalk was imported to this location from the chalk workings of the South Downs. The abundance of local timber in the nearby Annwood and Maskett's Wood would have been invaluable for lime manufacture
In William Gardener's 1795 map of Sussex (1 inch to a mile scale), which was to some part based on the findings of an earlier (1778) survey by himself and Thomas Yeakell, it is interesting to note that Furner's Green is referred to as 'Turners Green'. A later anomaly can be found in the 1879 recollections of Thomas Chatfield, a long-time resident of the area, who is reported to call the hamlet 'Furriers Green'
Colin Godman's Farm has been traced back to at least 1550 and reputedly was for a while involved in the smuggling of wool for export. It, and other substantial properties are clearly marked on the 1875 Ordnance Survey map.John Baker-Holroyd (later Baron Sheffield) is noted as owning the property in 1768 records
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