Historic sites

Bateman's

United Kingdom East Sussex Burwash

Bateman's
Photo: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The 17th-century sandstone house in the Sussex countryside where Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, lived from 1902 until his death. His study is kept as he left it, and his Rolls-Royce is in the garage.


Walk through the gardens to the watermill, which still grinds flour, and on along the River Dudwell.

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