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Another old inn, once a noted house of call for smugglers, is Market Cross House, opposite all that remains of the Cross, a mutilated and battered stump, and the only example, except that at Chichester, in the county. Alfriston once had a race week, the course being on the side of Firle Beacon; in those days the resident population was probably greater than it is now.
How many familiar objects we see around Michelham Priory, Battle Abbey, Wilmington Priory, Pevensey Castle, Lewes Castle all in view. There, too, opposite us, is the highest of the eastern downs, Firle Beacon. It is smoking like a volcano with the embers of the bale fire, which men lit last night, to warn the natives that the king was coming. There is yet another volcano farther on.
A short way farther, on the main road, is a turning to West Firle, on the east of which is the fine Firle Park belonging to the Gage's, a very ancient local family whose tombs and brasses may be seen in the church.
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