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| | BATEMANS BURWASH EAST SUSSEX AND RUDYARD KIPLING, MODERN AGE OF ELECTRICITY, GENERATING INDUSTRY BEGINNINGS CIRCA 1900, ... |
 | | Bateman's, is close to the village of Burwash in East Sussex. |
 | | It is thought the house was built by a Wealden ironmaster, or iron dealer, named John Britten, at a time when the Sussex Weald, with its forests for charcoal, was a flourishing centre of the ancient English iron industry. |
 | | Today, the visitor can still enjoy the terraced lawns, the walled garden, the working watermill, and his beautiful 1928 Rolls Royce, as well as the many personal possessions remaining in the house moreorless as he left them on this death in 1936. |
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