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HOW TO FIND US
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PLACES TO VISIT
The Bluebell Railway
Two and a half pubs
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IF YOU LIVE HERE

Local information
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What's happening?
Council Minutes
Situations Vacant
Please slow down
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IF YOU WANT TO LIVE HERE!
Property for sale

HISTORY
Photos old and new
Old  Maps
Historical scrapbook
Village Memories
How it was in '86
School history
Church history
The Martindale Centre
Family history search

Ouse Valley Railway
Our French twin

PLACES TO STAY
Local accommodation
Add your establishment here

OTHER PAGES
Filming news & Extras
Your own village email address
Your own local business web site

Your family web site

BBC Southern Ways

Wireless HotSpot
 

 

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LATEST LIVE VILLAGE WEATHER REPORT

 

BLATANT APPEAL FOR FUNDS!

IF YOU DON'T WANT HORSTEDKEYNES.COM TO BECOME THE SAME AS OTHER LOCAL VILLAGE WEB SITES THEN PLEASE CLICK HERE - IF YOU DON'T CARE THEN CARRY ON TO THE PAGE THAT YOU WANT (FOR NOW!)

Look at what has happened to   WWW.DANEHILL.COM    WWW.LINDFIELD.COM    Which do you prefer? 

 Welcome to HorstedKeynes.Com the web site for all who love our Beautiful Sussex Village. Here you will find much to interest both residents and visitors to our area. From our Parish Church, more than 1000 years old, to the Bluebell Railway which brings our village name to TV screens all over the world. You will also notice that we try to represent villagers' views on sometimes contentious local issues in the same friendly way that local topics are discussed in the pub. Please take a look round, and if you have anything to add or correct, email the webmasters, or give us a ring on 791624. 

THE CROWN INN IS TO REOPEN AS PUB NEXT YEAR

Orange Mobile get their extra coverage  ¦  Main road to Lindfield closed again

February Parish Council Minutes Now Available  ¦  The Horsted Keynes Village Plan

Her Majesty The Queen visits Horsted Keynes!   ¦  See an aerial view of the village in 1947

Mrs. Martindale builds a new centre for the village  ¦  Does Mobile Broadband Work In Our Area?

AVG FREE ANTI VIRUS NEEDS UPGRADING BUT REMAINS FREE!

How to find Horsted Keynes by road
An active map of local roads now, and how they looked  in history 200 years ago.
 
 

The Forge, 100 years ago

 

History Snippets
New section featuring several accounts of life in the village more than 100 years ago.
Village Memories of war years.


The Crown Inn plastic - may be going!
It seems that the Crown Inn might have been sold. According to a press report it is to reopen as a country pub.


 

Fire!

  "Land of Hope and Glory" and its author's connections with our village, plus lots of other local interest subjects.
New webcams  Server webcam repaired As featured on the BBC web site now six live cameras showing the village to the world.   Camera upgrade info
 

Hilary Ball

 

Horsted Keynes in the News
Our village seems to make it into the local and national news more often than many. Look here to see the latest events that have put our village in the news.


How it was in '86
Just 20 years ago, yet the village is so altered! Pages from an early electronic disc.
 

The mill in September 2004

 

In and around Horsted Keynes Mill.
Look at our enlarged page with a dozen fascinating very old postcard views of the area.

Wireless Hotspot for visitors to our village is now a "Fon" Hotspot - Read why here!
 

How we set your hotspot up.
 
Three Mobile Broadband
in the village?


 

 

Kelly's Directory 1874 The latest addition to our site is an extract from the "Kelly's Post Office Directory" for 1874. listing local people, farms, businesses, landowners, etc.

Our expanded "Information" section has details of local doctors, dustmen, police, and shopping, together with local clubs and societies contact details.
 

 
Horsted Keynes Cricket Club
Web site of our local cricket team
Places to visit
We're not just the Bluebell Railway! There are many other things to do in this area, just take a look for some examples.
 

St. Giles Church

 

Did we photograph the Aurora Spy Plane flying over the village? Our feature which has recently been carried on the BBC web site.


Family  history researchers should look at our Family History Help Wall where you can post a message to find your relatives without charge.
 


Is this you?

 

Old and New
This ever expanding section features pictures in and around the village from more than 100 years ago - recommended.


Our French Twin
We are twinned with the French village of Cahagnes through the Horsted/Cahagnes Society. News pages with information and forthcoming events will follow soon.
 

Stick 'em up! I'm armed!
 Stick 'em up!

  A Railway Mystery
Solved, the reason why there are huge earthworks where trains have never run. The Ouse Valley railway, started but never finished!  Plus a Wartime Railway Tragedy
Weather
Live weather report direct from our network of web cameras by the Greenwich Meridian.
    Southern Ways In 1997 a film crew from BBC South visited the village for a series of programmes. Look here for stills from the shows. (The full video is to follow ;-)

Free Small Ads
Looking for a job or got something to sell? Local residents can advertise here free!
 

Our own Post Office!

Subjects that interest local residents range from Radio Jingles, Cycle Computer InstructionsElectric Scooter Instructions, Broadband news Rechargeable Batteries and Countdown Word Games!


Pictures of a local beauty spot Ludwell spring.   Virus information and other local computer problems. The fight to bring Broadband to Horsted Keynes.


Finally on a personal note, take a look at what one of your webmasters did a long, long time ago...!
 

M&S CATERING - FISH & CHIPS
The Green, Horsted Keynes. EVERY TUESDAY 4.30pm - 7.15pm
CONTACT GARY SUDDS ON 01435 866501

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IT'S OFFICIAL - WE ARE No 1!
In a Google search of 85,500 Internet entries for "Horsted Keynes" our 112 page village web site is No1 in  both the UK and Global editions of the world's No1 search engine. Google now indexes this site over EVERY DAY.

We are one of the most popular village web sites in the UK with an average of more than 70,000 hits each month and more than 2000 hits an hour in some parts of the day.  Last year HorstedKeynes.Com visitors performed 900,000 page views on our combined site.  Many thanks to all our readers, both old and new especially if you came via the P&P.

 
 
© May 2008  All exclusive content on this web site (including photographs) is copyright and may not be published in any media or  reproduced on any other web page without express written permission. This will not be unreasonably withheld as long as you ask FIRST!-
We are very unusual in allowing almost all pictures on H.K.Com to be viewed or downloaded in full resolution for PERSONAL use only. Just click on the picture that you want to study and it will open. If you then see a little + symbol left click again to view it full size.
To save the picture right click and then "Save As". You may NOT then copy the picture onto another  web site without permission.
You can contact the webmasters by sending an email to webmaster@horstedkeynes.com or ring 791624.        Web Design by Chris Philpot