WALKS		Highdown Hill Meet Here Car Park		TALKS
Sunday 3rd June Met at Highdown car-park.				From the Bronze Age until the nineteenth century, Highdown was a place of great significance, where people came for ritual purposes and to demonstrate their unity. As well as the “hillfort” we will also visit the Miller’s Tomb and the site of the old windmill
John Olliver was the miller of Highdown for fifty years until his death in 1793. He had his own tomb constructed forty years before his demise and kept his coffin under his bed! Olliver is believed to have been a leading figure in the smuggling trade. Two thousand people attended his funeral – the entire population of the surrounding villages.
Highdown Towers was the home of the Stern family. Sir Frederick Stern was responsible for the laying out of the famous chalk gardens between 1909 and the 1930s. The gardens are today owned by Worthing Borough Council and open to the public.
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