Name that place

[hugh flung_dung]

Here's a question for regular flyers in the area S of Gatwick. Recently I flew on the route Alresford-MID-Billingshurst-Burgess hill(S)-Cranbrook; somewhere (I think on the leg to Keymer) I saw what looked like a huge school or monastery just to the N of track. Unfortunately I didn't mark it on the chart and it would be interesting to find-out what it was.

It was rectangular (long axis roughly E-W), walled, the E end had a large house built-in to the wall, the central area was divided into two grassed courtyards by a large church-like building which was about a quarter of the way from E to W, the western grassed-area seemed to be ringed by houses built-in to the wall.

I've failed to track it down with Google earth and google maps - any ideas?

HFD

[SilentHandover]

Worth Abbey ?

worth abbey - Google Maps (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=worth+abbey&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Worth+Abbey,+Turners+Hill,+West+Sussex&gl=uk&ei=p4LTSo2gJ8Kv4Qa4jfGIAw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CA4Q8gEwAA)

But if it is I might keep quiet if I were you. :ok:

[hugh flung_dung]

No prize I'm afraid.
It looked like a very old estate, a vast public school, or a monastery - no cars visible (and definitely outside controlled airspace!)

HFD

[Blink182]

This one ?.................

main (http://www.parkminster.org.uk/site.php?use=ourmonastery)


local landmark for our airstrip, but we never fly directly above .


Google Maps (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=50.973332,-0.283424&spn=0.003398,0.006673&t=h&z=17)

[hugh flung_dung]

I never cease to be amazed at the power of the web!
Thank you Mr Blink for solving my mystery. It looks a fascinating place (I assume that the Carthusians are not short of money ;))

HFD

[Sir George Cayley]

2 possibilities come to mind, but for one you were way orf track.

Lancing College north of London Brighton International, or

Sheffield Park near Haywards Heath.

Can't post pix as I'm a 'puter numpty, as well as being several hundred years old.

Sir George Cayley

[hugh flung_dung]

Thanks for the offer Sir George but the mystery is now solved.
Now get back to Brompton dale and try improving your influencer - I saw a copy of your glider flying at Lasham about 20 years ago and it looked like it still needed a little development work.:O

HFD