We met at Barns Farm, Sullington for Robin Milner-Gulland to tell us about the ancient boundaries of Washington, and there must have been 35 persons assembled. Robin gave an introductory address, and then we walked a short distance under the lee of the Downs to a spot where there there was an overgrown earthwork between the fields, and he gave a wonderfully interesting account of this structure having been recorded in two Saxon charters as part of the parish boundaries of Washington, and talked of the importance of parish boundaries, and the remaining other traces which he has discovered. We finally returned to the farm, loaded into our cars and went round to Gina and Roger Wilmshurst’s for a very welcome glass of wine in the sunset, and it made a delightful evening.
