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The Sugar Loaf

Brightling, East Sussex

A fake church spire built to win a bet.

'Mad Jack' Fuller, squire of Brightling, is said to have bet a friend that he could see the spire of Dallington church from his house. When he found he could not, he had a cone built in a field to look like the spire from his window, and won his bet.

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When
About 1820
Where
50.9570, 0.3750
Group
Towers & follies

Visiting

Beside the B2096 near Woods Corner.

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