Virtual Walks Walking the High Weald 3: Scotney Castle to Bateman's

Scotney Castle is the third of our castles. The secrecy and spies of Castle intrigue were but a diversion from the job of making money. By the 17th century, the iron furnaces between Lamberhurst and Burwash were being stoked for the production of cannon, grave slabs and the railings for St Paul’s, London.
There is little evidence left of such industry on the way to Burwash and Batemans, along the River Rother and its tributaries, but in the churchyard at Burwash look for the ‘Skull and Crossbones’ marked on the graves of smugglers hanged as their penalty for falling foul of the Revenue Men.
These Virtual Walks are taken from ‘Walking the High Weald’
Three Castles and an Ironmaster’s House. www.1066haroldsway.co.uk