Hungers Lane is an ancient sunken lane, a ‘holloway’, that cuts through, and is embedded within, the Greensand Ridge of the Sussex Weald. Its banks in parts reaching over 10 feet high as a consequence of centuries of use.
When the adjoining landscape park was expanded in 1763 by a local aristocrat, the lane was foreshortened and fell out of use - you can still see its shadow, a tree lined, grass covered linear depression stretching away from the inside of the park’s boundary wall.
The extant part of the lane you can still walk. About halfway along its length, it emerges briefly into the light, where it is intersected by a dirt track, and immediately plunges into darkness again on the other side.