Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf

[poliphilo]

I've written before about Mad Jack Fuller (1757-1834)

He was a hard drinking country squire who dotted his estate with follies and had himself buried under a dinky little pyramid in Brightling churchyard.

We were driving round the Sussex Weald the other day and going down one of the few roads we hadn't been down before when I spotted this.

Comments

[wantedonvoyage]

LOL men and their egos crack me up. My grandfather told us a story about a rich dude who lived on a hill and tried to pay people in a village within his view below to thatch their roofs so he could pretend to be some middle-ages baron or something. Unsurprisingly they told him to go scratch.

[poliphilo]

Back in the 18th century, landowners demolished whole villages and rebuild them elsewhere so as to perfect the view from their country houses.

[mallorys_camera]

Great story! 😀

[poliphilo]

Thanks.