the north and west of Church Lane the Low Wealden countryside of hedges and oaks is relatively well preserved. To the south, the 'Singing Hills Golf Course' is surrounded by intensively farmed fields. The church of St. Bartholomew The 12th century church as largely rebuilt in 1859 with the addition of a north aisle. Parts of the chancel still date back to Saxon and Norman times. The church is situated well away from the village and the noisy A23 down a narrow lane by the park of Albourne Place. Trustlers Hill Lane Truslers Hill Lane runs north to south on the western boundary of the parish with Woodmancote used to be lined by series of County Council smallholdings, but they were sold to private owners. In early medieval times this was a lonely countryside of commons, marshes and woods and paths needing many markers as they tracked across house-less wastes for long distances. On the brook south west of Truslers Hill Farm is a massively muscled goblinish oak (). Albourne Place Albourne Place, in Truslers Hill Lane, has been a settlement on the site since before the Domesday book. It was largely rebuilt in the mid-17th century but it was formerly a manor house. Old Threel House, a Grade II* listed building, is the original part of the 15th Century Albourne House. It is thought that the brutal assassination of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket in 1170 could have been plotted there by Ranulph and Robert de Broc in answer to Henry II's wishes. In contrast, it is thought to have also played a part in saving the life of a later Archbishop of Canterbury, William Juxon, a supporter of Charles I, who is believed to have hidden from Cromwell's army by posing as a bricklayer at Albourne. Albourne Place sits on 9.7-acre grounds and has a working 70ft well which is fed by an underground stream and is one of the deepest in Sussex. It has passed through a succession of owners including Colonel Sir John Fagg, MP for Rye; Sir Eric Geddes, MP for Cambridge and Charles Goring, MP for Shoreham in the mid-19th Century. Cutler's Brook The Cutler's Brook is a tributary of the River Adur that rises near Clayton. It passes through Hurstpierpoint, south of Albourne and north of Henfield, joining the Adur at Betley Bridge. The English public only have access to 3% of their