This blog began in 1997 as a single news page called Nucelus. In 2005, during a long wait to move into a new house, I decided to learn some php and MySQL and write my own blogging system, which became inkyBlog and which now powers this, my own Webbledegook blog.
Thank you to my brother, Murray Ewing, for help with some of the more challenging aspects!
It's short and sweet so I didn't really get into the nuts and bolts of its history. We perhaps played up the mystery of its demise a little, which is all good, even though research shows when it came into the hands of the Biddulph family, in the 1670s, they focussed on their other properties and it just gradually went to ruin, with portions of it carted away for other local building projects. But the intrigue remains!
I also mention a painting of the ruin from 1782 - that's the date you see everywhere for it, but I've subsequently pinpointed it more accurately to 1773. In the wake of this interview, fresh with all my research, I wrote up my big Genealogy of Brambletye piece, where you can learn much more about its thousand-year history.
Thanks to Simon Furber for the interview on a very pleasant day and his magical editing to make it all sound good, and also to BBC journalist Fiona McCarthy for the contact request and organisation. Check out the Secret Sussex website for much more! Update: There is also a supporting article over on the BBC News website.
