A Strange Museum Dedicated To Historic Buildings

This is the Weald and Downland Living Museum, spread over 40 acres in the village of Singleton, in West Sussex. This museum is dedicated to real historic buildings. It showcases over 50 buildings which date from the 10th to the 19th century. The aforementioned buildings were rescued from demolition.

Each building has been carefully dismantled, transported from its original site, and painstakingly reconstructed here. There are homes, farmhouses, workers’ cottages, shops, barns, schools, churches and more. They come from all over South East England.

In other words, what you see here are not merely reproductions; they are the authentic ones.

The buildings are furnished just as they would have been in the past, so exploring the houses is like walking through almost a thousand years of rural English life. You can climb the stairs of a 17th-century craftsman’s cottage to lie on the straw bed, grind flour in the 17th-century watermill, or even taste some beef with prune pottage and walnuts in a 1540’s Tudor kitchen.

See the photos over at the Amusing Planet.

(Image Credit: Adrian Cable/ Wikimedia Commons)