High Weald Characters
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Meet Dora
A World War 2 evacuee
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Meet Tarneg
A Mesolithic hunter from 8,000BC
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Meet Jacob
A Coppice Worker from the High Weald
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Meet Edward
A Victorian estate owner
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Meet Edmund
An Anglo Saxon Drover
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Meet Hugh
A commoner of Ashdown Forest from the Medieval period
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Meet Maximillius
A Roman Soldier from the 2nd Century AD
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 the High Weald Story and other videos in our library.