Welcome to Uckfield & District Preservation Society - we run both Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre and Nutley Windmill. Uckfield & District Preservation Society look after Bridge Cottage in Uckfield High Street and Nutley Windmill, Crowborough Road, Nutley, East Sussex. Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre is a medieval Wealden Hall House built in 1436. Today the building plays host to a variety of local history and community events, and is also available for private hire.
Explore the website to find out more about both our sites! Visit our sister site Nutley Windmill and see the oldest, only working open-trestle post mill in the country. Set in the beautiful landscape of Ashdown Forest, East Sussex. Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre hosts various exhibitions here throughout the year. Our last exhibition 'Women of Wealden Suffrage' explored and celebrated inspiring women over the last 100 years since gaining the right to vote.
Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre holds the archive of the Uckfield and District Preservation Society.
Explore the website to find out more about both our sites! Visit our sister site Nutley Windmill and see the oldest, only working open-trestle post mill in the country. Set in the beautiful landscape of Ashdown Forest, East Sussex. Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre hosts various exhibitions here throughout the year. Our last exhibition 'Women of Wealden Suffrage' explored and celebrated inspiring women over the last 100 years since gaining the right to vote.
Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre holds the archive of the Uckfield and District Preservation Society.
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The Uckfield and District Preservation Society (UDPS) was founded in 1968, initially to protect and preserve Nutley Windmill and to encourage interest in the local history and environment of the parishes around Uckfield in East Sussex.
The Society, which is an independent charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee, offers a Membership that is open to all who share its stated aims, set out below.
These aims are achieved through our four interest group sub committees of Local History, Nutley Windmill, Planning & Environment and Bridge Cottage.
The Society, which is an independent charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee, offers a Membership that is open to all who share its stated aims, set out below.
These aims are achieved through our four interest group sub committees of Local History, Nutley Windmill, Planning & Environment and Bridge Cottage.
Who can become a Member?
Membership of the Society is open to individuals, families and groups on payment of an annual subscription.
Either email admin@bridgecottageuckfield.co.uk or post to: Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, High Street, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 1AZ.
Choose the membership product you require from the options below and purchase this on-line.
For every pound you give to us in membership subscriptions and donations, we get an extra 28 pence from the Inland Revenue.
In the last five years Gift Aid has increased our income by over 1,600.
Membership of the Society is open to individuals, families and groups on payment of an annual subscription.
Either email admin@bridgecottageuckfield.co.uk or post to: Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, High Street, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 1AZ.
Choose the membership product you require from the options below and purchase this on-line.
For every pound you give to us in membership subscriptions and donations, we get an extra 28 pence from the Inland Revenue.
In the last five years Gift Aid has increased our income by over 1,600.
2018 marks the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Uckfield & District Preservation Society (UDPS).
We will be having various events to celebrate this milestone both at Nutley Windmill & Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre.
Coinciding with National Mills Weekend and we also a celebrated the 50th Anniversary of UDPS caring for Nutley Windmill.
The rain did not dampen the atmosphere and the crowds gathered to mark this Golden anniversary with Rev. Anthony Shaw cutting the ribbon to officially open the new Granary building.
We will be having various events to celebrate this milestone both at Nutley Windmill & Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre.
Coinciding with National Mills Weekend and we also a celebrated the 50th Anniversary of UDPS caring for Nutley Windmill.
The rain did not dampen the atmosphere and the crowds gathered to mark this Golden anniversary with Rev. Anthony Shaw cutting the ribbon to officially open the new Granary building.
Come and see the oldest, only working open-trestle post mill in the country.
Set in the beautiful landscape of Ashdown Forest, East Sussex.
Nutley Windmill is a very fine example of the oldest post mill design, known in the country since the 12th Century.
Nutley Windmill is over 300 years old.
It was brought to its current site around 1835.
Why not include a walk on your visit to Nutley Windmill that takes you around the beautiful Ashdown Forest.
A 1.7 miles / 2.8 km circular walk taking in Friends Clump, Nutley Windmill, Millbrook Valley and Old Lodge.
Set in the beautiful landscape of Ashdown Forest, East Sussex.
Nutley Windmill is a very fine example of the oldest post mill design, known in the country since the 12th Century.
Nutley Windmill is over 300 years old.
It was brought to its current site around 1835.
Why not include a walk on your visit to Nutley Windmill that takes you around the beautiful Ashdown Forest.
A 1.7 miles / 2.8 km circular walk taking in Friends Clump, Nutley Windmill, Millbrook Valley and Old Lodge.
It is possible that before 1836 the mill stood at Kilndown near Goudhurst where a mill 'disappeared' somewhere between 1710 and 1769.
Certainly mills were moved across country, a famous local example being a post mill moved in 1797 from Regency Square, Brighton to Shaw Road, Preston by a team of 86 oxen.
Mills were also constructed or repaired with timbers taken from older mills.
UDPS has commissioned a dendrochronological survey (tree ring dating) of Nutley Mill which concludes that the main-post came from a tree felled between 1533 and 1565.
Certainly mills were moved across country, a famous local example being a post mill moved in 1797 from Regency Square, Brighton to Shaw Road, Preston by a team of 86 oxen.
Mills were also constructed or repaired with timbers taken from older mills.
UDPS has commissioned a dendrochronological survey (tree ring dating) of Nutley Mill which concludes that the main-post came from a tree felled between 1533 and 1565.
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