Week 44 - Amberley Village

52 Week Challenge, Week 44 – Amberley Village, West Sussex

This is Amberley Village, West Sussex. About 4 miles outside Arundel and a charmingly quintessentially English village.  

It is made up mostly of 16th & 17th century stone-built cottages and houses, many of them with beautifully ornate and decorated thatched roofs.

 Flowers flow out of stone walls and apparently in the Spring / early Summer many of the buildings are covered in Wisteria (I will definitely go back next year to photograph this).

 For a small village there is a lot here.

 In the village there is Amberley Castle, now used as an hotel but with the grounds open to the public, and nearby you can find the Amberley Working Museum, a 36 acre museum housed in a former chalkpit showing the industrial development of the area.

 The oldest building in the village is St Stephen’s church dating back to the 12th century. Amberley Pottery is an interesting place and The Black Horse is an inviting local pub.

 However, the village shop is a thing of beauty to a tidy freak like me. I have never seen such aesthetically pleasing and orderly stacked shelves, stocked with locally supplied and ethically produced foods.

 And the tomato rack is the most organised display imaginable. Every tomato is stacked according to size and colour. Impressive.