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History of the Stables

Old map, undated though probably from the mid 1960s/70s, showing the Marchwell Stables as Occupational Therapy Units.

The Living Story of Marchwell Stables: From Working Yard to Place of Healing If walls could talk, the stables at Graylingwell, now known as The Marchwell Studios would have stories enough to fill volumes. Their story is not just about…

Key individuals of Graylingwell Farmhouse

An old image of hay stacks and two workers at Graylingwell Farm Yard

The Miller Family  Present in the farmhouse as tenants and lessees for a significant portion of the 18th and into the 19th century, the Millers were a family born from political elites. Their ancestry includes Sir Thomas Miller (MP for…

History of the Farmhouse

The Farmhouse as it used to look

The lands of ‘Hauedstoke and Sumeresdale’ (Havenstoke and Summersdale) were bestowed to the diocese of Chichester at the death of Bishop Ralph Neville in 1244 and would remain bishopric lands, surviving the reformation and civil wars, until the 19th century.…