fungi have been recorded including fairy clubs, pinkgills, crimson waxcap and scarlet hood. Special bees can be found here too, including the bellflower bee. When it’s raining you can find them curled up inside harebell flowers, which they neatly fit, like little flower fairies. Game rearing pens exist in the area, some used, some unused. Ditchling's ex-Tenantry Down Ditchling's ex-Tenantry Down is a plateau () that runs for over a mile south from Ditchling Beacon. It used to be one of Ditchling’s two commons. It was a form of medieval common particular to the Downs. The common included most of Ditchling Beacon's Iron Age hill fort and the heads of three dry valleys (North, Home and Hogtrough Bottom), two of which retain their rich old Down pastures. In 1978 the plateau part of the common was stripped of its common land status and is now privately owned by Tenantry Down Ltd. Had its common land status survived, we would all have public access to the entire Down thanks to the passing of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act in 2000. The fragments of old Down pasture which survive there were not designated as Access Land, though they should have been. Hares seem to be doing well in this area. Governance Ditchling is part of the electoral ward called Ditchling and Westmeston. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 2,424. Education There is one school in Ditchling, Ditchling (St Margaret's) Church of England Primary School. This is a voluntary controlled primary school for children aged 4–11. Many of the children after leaving this school go to Downlands Community School in the village of Hassocks located in the adjoining county of West Sussex. Located in the centre of the village is Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft. Notable residents Sir Frank Brangwyn – artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator and progressive designer Raymond Briggs – illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author (in nearby Westmeston) S. F. Edge – racing driver HRH Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - grew up nearby and went to school in Ditchling. Rowland Emett – Punch cartoonist and mapcap designs. Herbie Flowers – musician Eric Gill – sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter, printmaker, and child rapist James Hodson – cricketer – was born in Ditchling Bernard Holden – railway engineer, president of Bluebell Railway Peter James – writer Edward Johnston – craftsman, who is