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[8] 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.

This is an intact hazel and hornbeam coppice with fine oaks and ash that borders on Park Wood in the neighbouring parish of Poynings.

Newtimber Holt (TQ 277 126) 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).

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.

Roe deer enjoy the deeper parts of the Holt and bird song fills the air at dawn in springtime, but the noise of the nearby A23 means it is no longer a wholly tranquil place.

Views from Newtimber Hills western slopes extend all along the ocean wave of the chalk scarp to Hampshire, and across the dim blue forest to Blackdown on the Surrey border.

There are anthills, cattle terracettes and some years dark green fritillary, the rare silver-spotted skipper butterfly and a big populations of glowworm.

On the west flank of Newtimber Hill, above and below the Saddlescombe Road, are disused braided trackways, that are known locally as the ‘Devil's Stairs’.

South of the dew ponds the plateau descends by a staircase of medieval strip lynchets to the combe of sheltered Saddlescombe.

North Hill (TQ 270 120) has two prominent Bronze Age barrows in which, despite being previously robbed, archeologists found pottery vessels, a skeleton and a dagger.

There are treasures still there in the form of betony, eggs and bacon, tormentil and knapweed, and in autumn (in a good year) a real cornucopia of colourful waxcaps, coral fungi and earth tongues, including several old pasture indicator species.

[7] Summers Down (TQ 267 110) is a bushy acid grassland with lots of sheltered places and a good view of the Poynings Gap.

South of the road, the National Trust car park has three Bronze Age bowl barrows still upstanding, both with their tops dug out by treasure seekers of the past.

The cut up tracks are three metres (ten feet) deep caused by centuries of passage by pack horse trains, carts and flocks.