Our first walk of the year will be on Sunday 28th May.  Please meet at the Henty Arms car park at 2:30 pm.  In June 1921, there were 256 people living in approx 50 properties in Ferring.  We are going to walk around about 40 of them, looking at who was living in the village, and what they did.  The walk will be approx 2.5 miles, and will finish by the entrance to Sea Lane Gardens.  If you intend to come on the walk, please download and print these accompanying notes : 1921 Census Walk Notes

Join us at Ferring Village Hall on Friday 5th May, 7:30pm for an evening of “Ferring on Film”.  We will be showing films from the 1930’s upto the Millennium.  Some serious films documenting events in Ferring, and some comedies made by enthusiasts for fun.

Trevor Povey is unfortunately unwell, so we have arranged for Geoffrey Mead to come along and talk to us about Daniel Defoe’s tour of South East England in 1724.

Date, time and place remain unchanged – Friday 3rd February, 7:30 p.m. at Ferring Village Hall.

There will be an opportunity to renew your membership for 2023, and get your copy of the Ferring History Magazine if you have not already done so.

Trevor Povey returns to Ferring History Group on Friday 3rd February, with his talk on Portslade.  Trevor was born in South Portslade and has lived all his life in the Brighton and Hove area.  He has taught local history for over 30 years, and is an expert in the history of Portslade.

7:30 p.m. Friday 3rd February, Ferring Village Hall.

We had a great afternoon for our Kingston walk, after a very wet morning. About 25 of us, including two new members, did the walk up the Rife and westward along the Ferring and Kingston boundary across the fields to Kingston Lane, passing Kingston Manor, looking down the old ‘Street’ of Kingston village, over to East Kingston Farm, down to the beach at Kingston Gorse and back along the greensward to the Bluebird Cafe. The commentary I gave (and a few things I forgot to say) is in the Members’ Pages, entitled ‘The Kingston Walk’.

If you are a paid-up member of our Group you can ask me for a Username and Password and get access to these and many more pages of Ferring, and other local, history. – Ed.Miller43@msn.com

Our next presentation at 7:30 p.m. on Friday 4th November, at Ferring Village Hall is a talk by Janet Pennington on 1000 Years of The Wiston Estate.

This illustrated talk encompasses some of the ups and downs of the estate ownership over the last millennium.  See how the estate has grown in size, and follow its ownership.

Janet Pennington was born in Sussex.  She is an independent researcher with a degree in the architectural and social history of early-modern Sussex inns and taverns (Thesis). She was the archivist at Lancing College, and also taught local history and palaeography for the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex.

Welcome to our web site. Below the photograph of Ocean Drive, looking South, on a card posted in 1939, is a summary menu of what is on the site. Most of the pages are available to any visitor to this site, and the many articles of Ferring History may be quoted from, or reproduced in full, as long as there is an acknowledgment of Ferring History Group as its source. 

Other pages, with more detailed history, and (in time) many photographs, are for our members, who pay an annual subscription and, on application, are given a user name and a password. If you have a user name and  password please enter them in the box, below, right. If you are a member but do not have, or have forgotten, these please e mail ed@ferringhistorygroup.co.uk. If you are not a member, please use the contact button, on the panel above, right, to see how to become one..

You do not have to be a member to come  to our meetings (7.30 on the first Friday of February, May, August and November, in Ferring Village Hall) – we welcome visitors at £3 per head, paid at the door. Please go to the ‘Who we Are and What We Do’ tab below the photograph for more information about us. – Ed Miller (Secretary).