The High Weald is a cultural landscape - one that has been shaped and changed by many people over centuries.

In the past it is the area's natural resources that have drawn people to the area; its sandrock has sheltered mesolithic hunters; its woodlands attracted Anglo-Saxon swineherders; its iron, water and trees combined to make it an industrial heartland in Roman and Tudor times.

Watch these videos to find out how people from the past shaped the landscape and their thoughts on how the landscape of today compares with the landscape that they knew.

If you liked these videos you may be interested in our Video library, particularly the High Weald Story.