The Sussex Border Walk - Part Nine: Rustington, the Town, the Church and the Old Manor

[@montyzumazoom1337]

Rustington is a lovely place.

[@paulmetcalfe4824]

A truly fascinating video thank you so much

[@RichardVobes]

Great stuff - glad you enjoyed it.

[@samanthafranks3026]

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[@shirleylynch4420]

Amazing piece of history especially regarding George. Love the flint work. Old cemetery quite moving.thank you.

[@RichardVobes]

Very welcome

[@granvillebashleigh7612]

Nearly sixty years ago I was a choir boy in that church brought into this world not far up the village.

[@welshmanjasonpatrick8607]

Very nice church with flint walls very interested walk

[@ceeceety2320]

I must apologize...I haven't watched a video from you in some months and I am now pulled back in! There is so much history in your part of the world. I'm from the U.S. and have been far too consumed with election news. This was a much-needed break along with the narrow boating channels that my wife and I love so much. We long to one day come there for a very long holiday or even possibly spend part of our retirement each year. I wish we could afford to support your channel. You put so much effort into this and I imagine it must be quite an exciting journey for you. Thanks for sharing it!

[@RichardVobes]

Welcome back, Tim. Great to see you.

[@wattck]

Another lovely video thanks. What a nice wide main street, planned with common sense and not looking at how many properties could be crammed in. How much better to shop in a wide open Main Street. I liked the small thatched cottage's name, "Bumble Cottage", How Quaint. All in all a lovely exploration, Thanks for taking us there and showing it to us. You're right, it's great seeing the shops open again, they should never have closed. One day the whole story of Covid and our Governments reaction to it will be told accurately. I think Government will be lucky to come through the analysis intact and unscathed, but time will tell.

[@RichardVobes]

Yes indeed, time will tell.

[@denniskavanagh3075]

Some lovely buildings with their flint faced walls and very interesting to be able to get the old and new perspective of the old manor house. Thank you Richard and of course Leigh Lawson.

[@RichardVobes]

It's all thanks to Leigh for the lead on the postcard.

[@leighlawson4854]

Thank you Dennis!

[@leighlawson4854]

@@RichardVobes glad to help!

[@nancynoo]

Lovely to see the 'then and now' manor house and to stand where George would have stood

[@RichardVobes]

Fortunately not too much has changed!

[@davidmills636]

So interesting - loving your snipets - they are prompting me to look up more about each place as I follow you around - thank you

[@RichardVobes]

You are so welcome!

[@samanthafranks3026]

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[@katherinekinnaird4408]

That's a great old picture of the gentleman leaning on the rock wall. Thank you Richard. I look forward to each installment. Cheers!.

[@RichardVobes]

Glad you enjoyed it. Waiting for weather to improve before the next one comes out.

[@katherinekinnaird4408]

@@RichardVobes Sounds good.

[@dwdesignandmusic]

Thanks for visiting my town.

[@ramibu239]

Oh my stars & thatched roofs!!!😯🤩😁😉 (2:58 & 4:10) Rustington is another town w/ a lot of wonderful old builds. Loved the Georgian dental office & the Manor House. The flint on the very last house was just spectacular!!!❤ Loving this series Richard!!!👏👏👏

[@RichardVobes]

I thought it would be right up your street! :)

[@ramibu239]

@@RichardVobes I kept trying to find out the history of the Abbots Lodge dental building (as it was such an amazing & lovely old building), but all I could get was adds or the history of the dental practice itself!😕 So if anyone local knows, please let me know!!!😊 (Couldn't find much history on The Manor either - just adds for The Manor Inn & it wasn't the same building!!!!😕)

[@ramibu239]

@@RichardVobes btw Richard, did you locate the Ice Age Boulder on display in the middle of High Street while there?

[@lindakane4717]

My dentist !! Also used to work with him

[@ramibu239]

@@geoffsmith6373 Richard does invite locales to show them around their towns. If you think he missed some exciting spots to see, you should email him w/ that information & invite him back for a guided tour!😊

[@PortsladeBySea]

Rustington is a lovely community. The high street has an excellent array of shops, which local people enthusiastically support. I purchased my car from the dealership near the old church. We looked at it after having enjoyed a meal in the nearby Chinese restaurant. The car has now clocked up 112,000 miles, just passed it’s MOT and still does 65 miles per gallon! 🥳

[@samanthafranks3026]

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[@wealdenpete]

Every year I was lucky to spend a week of my summer holidays with my grandad who retired to Rustington in around 1955 into a new build bungalow. I think this is when Rustington started to grow quickly. I recall an interesting mix of adopted and unadopted roads (the private ones) - we wee in an adopted road, but they were all mixed together, so you could walk to the next road junction and that road would be private, but the next would not be. Grandad's home was a 5 minute walk to the beach, and of course every day was sunny and warm!

[@RichardVobes]

Happy memories, Pete.

[@juniajosh3858]

Very interesting as always.. thank you! Oh what a wonderful old photograph and how progress has changed things that had been constant for centuries.

[@RichardVobes]

The change in the past 100 years has been all encompassing everywhere.

[@steveroperfilms]

I like your pieces to camera, whether walking or standing, which are invariably beautifully framed and really add to the great story and sense of adventure. Certainly no aimless meanderings. Cheers.

[@RichardVobes]

That is very kind of you. :)

[@leighlawson4854]

Thank you Richard - and I am pleased the old photo of Rustington Manor was useful! It is from the first WSCC Library Pastimes series. I saw the photograph in the West Sussex Gazette when the postcard series was first published in 1991 and couldn't believe it when I read in the caption that George Gates is the man leaning over the wall. My grandmother had told me that as a little girl she used to visit him in that house.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks to you, Leigh for the inspiration for the walk to the old Manor House.

[@MrNas42]

Very enjoyable. The new Lumix/gimbal style is working really well. It will be interesting to note when the local geology changes and you start to see fewer flint faced walls and buildings on your adventure.

[@RichardVobes]

Oh yes, the subtlety of the geology changes in the county. I am looking forward to that too.

[@michaelwhite8031]

I am really enjoying these vids. I love Sussex and from a man who's ancestors came from Kent like suppose that's something.

[@darrenrobertdendy9478]

Absobloodymarvelous Loving this series

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks so much

[@CharlieCooper3101]

Another good border walk. My girlfriend thinks you should do a video of your top 10 favourite Churches. Once again some lovely buildings and the old photo's sent in by viewers are great. How great some of that wall is still there on the corner of the road.

[@frugalmeister662]

Very nice video. Thank you Richard.

[@RichardVobes]

Many thanks!

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[@michaelamitterhuber4280]

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[@RichardVobes]

Thank you very much!

[@RobertBrown-ty7he]

Just catching up on your videos Richard. Thank for such informative viewing. By the way, the leftover road works furniture in front of the manor house is where there stood a large tree that came down in a storm taking out a low wall on the opposite side of the drive.

[@samanthafranks3026]

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[@Stringtrees]

History all around us and your explorations bring it to us. Ma-in-Law lived in Rustington up until a few years ago so we used to go there primarily to visit but on odd occasions we did get a bit of a walk around but I clearly missed a lot.

[@RichardVobes]

There is much to be missed. I bet I hardly scraped the surface.

[@lindakane4717]

So interesting to see your take on a village ( although officially a town I think, it is still referrred to as the village) that I know very well and yes there were other places to see but it would have taken another video ! The image of the Manor House that Leigh sent you ? Where George was standing there was an enormous Lime tree ( where the red and white stuff was ) that came down in a wind last year demolishing part of the wall - now rebuilt.

[@RichardVobes]

Another video will follow - subject to the weather. Thanks, Linda. Shame about the Lime tree.

[@MrGreatplum]

Some great cinematography work in this one, richard. For a post war shopping development, the centre of Rustington doesn’t look too bad - great to see a number of independent shops as well.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks, Matt. Most of it was off the cuff, so I was very lucky!

[@imranzazai7404]

Beautiful.

[@coliniancooke8848]

First part of tower C11 or C12. The top fortified tower added in 1667 as you read

[@dcarbs2979]

Definately looks Norman. Not sure if it's original or more modern recreation?

[@RichardVobes]

Ah, thank you the precise dates for the tower - fascinating stuff.

[@martinbeardmore7533]

Lovely to see Rustington in your latest episode Richard. I've often wondered where the name had its origins. "Rusting town??" There are a lot of very wealthy houses in and around on private estates and l've often seen the odd Ferrari dashing through the village. Sir Hubert Parry who wrote the music to the famous poem by William Blake now known as "Jerusalem" and sung when the England Rugby team play, lived in Rustington for some time. sung these day

[@RichardVobes]

There are certainly some rich people in that town judging from the houses and private estates.

[@lindakane4717]

A thought is that the Saxon who built his 'tun' or farmstead on this site had red hair, because his nickname was Rusta. The name doesn't appear to have changed since 1255

[@richm2835]

I like to see the traditional thatched roofs still maintained in some parts of the country . It's nice to see small locally owned shops adding diversity to our town centres , but they are always flanked by the likea Greggs , dominos , Holland & barrett and Boots

[@RichardVobes]

Sadly the same names from the larger stores still find their way into the market place of a town.

[@rustingtonmuseum4062]

Hi, about the shops - the main street was developed in the 1960s. On the north side were 3 large houses which were demolished to make way for the shops. On the south, there was nothing but fields before the shops were built. Even though the Museum is closed to the public, we are still open for public enquiries via email on [e-mail]

[@johnbyrne2756]

ON THE BORDER (verse 3 of ???) Development, development a place beside the sea Modern airy coastal blocks where history used to be From Barnet, Bank and Bermondsey exchanging smoke for sticks Yet same old, same old, same old In a brand new pile of bricks! JB20

[@RichardVobes]

Oh the developments over the years ...

[@colinfaragher5373]

There was also the Zachary Merton Maternity Hospital in Rustington. See: www.francisfrith.com/rustington/zachary-merton-maternity-hospital-rustington_memory-43521.

[@bullettube9863]

A very nice walk around a small, vibrant village, with a nice mix of the old and new which is always interesting to see. If those buildings had been built in the 1960s where are the orange panels and stainless steel trim? I've seen so many of these "modern" buildings in America and on videos about Britain that I just want to go over and start tearing them down! How could people have had such bad taste for ten years and then suddenly realized their mistake and stopped without correcting what they had already built? Come on people, complete the job and get rid of orange!

[@RichardVobes]

They are still putting up rubbish on our streets sadly!

[@bullettube9863]

@@RichardVobes Oh No! Well hopefully your videos will enlighten people to see the beauty in brick and flint.

[@johnbyrne2756]

SAT NAV SHENANIGANS (verse 63 of 147) Although not fans of all things horse we might as well have been Our tyre tracks near the finish line were by spectators seen On racing's rich and hallowed turf we left our common mark The day we went to Rustington by way of Fontwell Park! JB20

[@RichardVobes]

Shame you don't see horses in the towns any more.

[@johnbyrne2756]

Youngs Brewery of Wandsworth London delivered beer to their public houses by horse drawn dray. One morning about 25 years ago an irate driver -- caught up in the traffic jam created by it -- jumped out of his car in a rage and started hitting the poor horse with a length of timber. This madness led to the end of horse driven beer delivery, something that had happened since Young's was established in the area over 200 years previously....

[@jonathanmott2013]

Hello Richard! I see you’re drawing very near Littlehampton! Would you like to have some company from a local sea shanty group for your LA leg? The Duck Pond Sailors sing sea shanties that would have been sung along this stretch of coastline, and one of our number, Chris Hare, is a local historian who could tell you a few things about the nautical history of our town. We would love to sing for you if you’re interested!

[@RichardVobes]

That would be lovely. It might be sensible to do a separate video about you guys and record the sea shanties with some history thrown in regardless if I have passed your area. Do email me richard at vobes dot com - thanks so much.

[@cogidubnus1953]

A question about Rustington that's been bugging me years...almost since joining the Southdown Bus Company back in 1975 actually... the origin of the name ABC Corner for the junction of North Lane with the Worthing Road...I've heard a couple of odd theories (a roadsign with Arundel, Brighton & Chichester directions, the "numbering" of three new houses on North Lane as A, B and C to name just two)...does anybody have a definitive answer please?

[@RichardVobes]

oooh good question!

[@graemetaylor3760]

Yes, the answer is that this corner got its strange name from the cottages that were originally built for the staff of Rustington House (now Hargreaves). There were originally for of them at first labelled A, B, C and D. Three of which are still there but have changed their names. They are still known as boundary cottages as they were on the Rustington side of the border with Littlehampton. The border was/is the ditch which runs alongside the footpath in Brookfields Park.

[@cogidubnus1953]

@@graemetaylor3760 Excellent Graeme...that resolves a puzzle that's been bugging me a long, long time. Thank you!

[@adrianburn7178]

A good source of information is sussexparishchurches.org The tower and south arcade are late 12th century.

[@RichardVobes]

Thanks for this.