Near the parish boundry once stood James Tickner's vinegar works.
Also close by was Richard Medlands charcoal furnace which burnt
some 2,000 tonds of corkwood anually to produce naphtha, acetic
acid and some 500 tons of charcoal. These products were rarely sold
locally and were shipped to London via Littlehampton on barges on
the Wey and Arun Canal that ran near to the location of the
railway.
In 1965, The Guildford - Horsham line was the only branch line
in
Surrey to be axed by the infamous Dr Beeching. Whilst the line
was
removed, the trackbed has remained undeveloped.
In the 1980s, the line took on new life as it was redeveloped
into
the Downs Link, a public footpath and bridlepath linking the
North
and South Downs.
