Wadhurst

He retired to keep a series of pubs, the last of them The Greyhound in Wadhurst.

Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave Stephen Bates 2010

Several volunteered to mount a rescue expedition to Wadhurst.

Maurice Tate: An extraordinary response for an extraordinary man Stephen Bates 2010

So it was all this that led me one dank early October day to visit Wadhurst?

Maurice Tate: An extraordinary response for an extraordinary man Stephen Bates 2010

While all this discussion was going on, a new letter and new photographs popped into the Guardian's letters editor's inbox: Robert Harrison and his son, having seen the article, had taken the matter into their own hands, gone down to Wadhurst and tidied up the grave on their own initiative: cut the grass, planted cyclamens, and cleaned the gravestone so that its inscription is once more visible.

Maurice Tate: An extraordinary response for an extraordinary man Stephen Bates 2010

A particularly resonant column in October told of Stephen Bates's dismay at discovering the dilapidated, overgrown grave in a Sussex country churchyard of a fabled Ashes legend of the not-too-distant past, Maurice Tate – and the immediate and happy outcome was that a London reader, Robert Harrison, and his son travelled to Wadhurst to begin repairs just as, simultaneously, the Sussex supporters' association pledged full-scale renovation of the once strapping hero's grave.

Head bowed, eyes moist: paying homage to the ghosts of seasons past | Frank Keating 2010

More information will be posted on my own blog about meeting people at Wadhurst station which is much nearer than T.Wells and still has a half hourly service.

Scotney Blog Picnic 2009

At Wadhurst are many iron grave slabs and a graceful slender spire.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Ticehurst and Wadhurst, which may be reached either by road or rail from

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

A correspondent from Wadhurst, West Dulwich, S.E., says: --

Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead

The present novitiate stands in wooded grounds at Wadhurst, Sussex, and a house for Irish novices has been opened at Omeath on the shores of Carlingford Lough in the Archdiocese of Armagh.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913