Ньюти́мбер: История, Памятники и Природа Западного Сассекса

The parish covers an area of At the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Poynings.

Newtimber civil parish contains 12 listed buildings. Of these, one is Grade I, one is Grade II* and the remaining 10 buildings are Grade II. The parish contains three scheduled monuments.

Bowl barrow on North Hill (List Entry Number 1014949), a circular mound with a deep central hollow, indicating partial excavation in the past. Group of three bowl barrows and an Anglo Saxon mixed cemetery on Summer Down (List Entry Number 1014952), a linear group of three prehistoric barrows and a later Anglo Saxon cremation and inhumation cemetery. Cross dyke on Newtimber Hill (List Entry Number 1015717), a roughly north–south aligned cross dyke constructed across a chalk ridge, partly disturbed by flint diggings, tree roots and downland tracks.

Newtimber is a small parish with a scattered population, which may be as low as seventy five inhabitants. It stretches from the Brighton and Hove downland to its south to the Albourne parish in the Sussex Weald to its north. To its west is the Poynings parish and to its west lies Pyecombe.

Saddlescombe is a hamlet in the Newtimber parish; it lies on the road from Poynings to Brighton, 5.4 miles (8.7 km) northwest of Brighton. Saddlescombe Farm is a busy little place sitting at the base of the Downs which has been owned by the National Trust along with the surrounding countryside since 1995. It has lots of history having been listed as a working farm since the Domesday Book, belonging to the Knights Templar for around 100 years and being one of the two manors of Newtimber Parish. The ancient well in middle of the village green is probably the only visible relic of the manor and the donkey wheel above it that wound up the hamlet's water is still intact. There are rusting iron oxen shoes tacked to the old doorway farmhouse. The hamlet consists of several threshing barns, large storage barns, a variety of houses, forge, cattle yard and dairy, duck pond, donkey wheel, pig sties, chicken coops and old stables.

Newtimber Place is a 16th century house, likely built by the sheriff of Sussex, Richard Bellingham. It has a wide moat which goes right up to its walls, with white bridge that is fed by clear, chalk spring water. It has a giant turkey oak tree outside. To the west of the house is Newtimber Wood This is an intact hazel and hornbeam coppice with fine oaks and ash that borders on Park Wood in the neighbouring parish of Poynings. Both woods are botanically rich.

With the exception of the Dyke Golf Course, the Downland scarp is owned by the National Trust and most of it is Open Access.

Newtimber Holt is a rich and ancient woodland with a history possibly going back ten thousand years. There are at least twenty ancient woodland indicator species including wych elm, maple and even midland hawthorn (usually found on the Weald Clay). The Holt doesn't have large leaved lime anymore, but it does have some very tall large leaved / small leaved lime hybrids and these, with the good representation of other trees and shrubs, is indicative of the Holt's age. There are lots of bluebell in spring, with some wood anemone, goldilocks buttercup, yellow archangel, early purple orchis, polypody fern, redcurrant, nettle leaved bellflower as well as other indicator herbs and grasses of ancient woodland. The National Trust and the Sussex Wildlife Trust are now bravely restoring the juniper's old Down pasture habitat and it is being planted on the A27 bypass at Stanmer and Devil's Dyke. On the top of Newtimber Hill there are two dew ponds , one which is dried and now covered with colourful with waxcaps and the other a restored dew pond with much pond life. South of the dew ponds the plateau descends by a staircase of medieval strip lynchets to the combe of sheltered Saddlescombe. The lynchets are chalky in character with nice flowers and old meadow fungi, with waxcap (meadow, crimson and scarlet hood) with scatters of earth tongues and clumps of five or six species of coral fungi.

North, East and West Hill all surround Saddlecombe. North Hill has two prominent Bronze Age barrows in which, despite being previously robbed, archeologists found pottery vessels, a skeleton and a dagger.

There's a cross dyke ) between West Hill and Newtimber Hill, along the line of the bridlepath, which is believed to be a prehistoric land boundary. It is now a scheduled monument. It was badly damaged in the Second World War when it was used for tank training, but Brighton Council rebuilt it. Probably a burial mound once rose above this early Bronze Age burial, but it isn't there anymore.