regret that the features of this old house were not in some way preserved.
Crowhurst Place, on the road to Battle, was the seat of the Pelham family. The old Manor of Crowhurst was one of those held by Harold before the Conquest. In the reign of Henry IV. the Manor was in the possession of Sir John Pelham, who adopted the
device known as the Pelham Buckle. His descendant, Colonel Pelham, resided there early in the seventeenth century. The property afterwards descended by inheritance to Thomas Papillon Esq., and the family still holds it. The property extends down the the Crowhurst Valley to the Sea. We learn from the Collier Letters that in 1756, Colonel Pelham had a private road from Crowhurst Place to the Sea, where he had a house on the cliff at Bopeep called " The Tent," which he used as a resort for pleasure parties and bathing.
