Sylvia and Peter’s world

The River Arun

Tile Map in Arundel
Arundel – Old docks and bridge

You can find the tile map in the little garden just to the left of the bridge in the picture – the opposite side to the Priory ruins. If you visit Arundel Museum next to the ruins you can fid out about the docks where Jethro would have delivered the timber he had collected from Pallingham. (Pallingham is north of Pulborough).

The Barge on the Arun

Model canal barge

This model is at the Wey and Arun Canal Trust office by the canal in Loxwood. Jethro’s barge would have been rather like this. I gave him a cabin he could shelter in (or use to trap Sylvia and Peter). He loaded the barge with wood, not stones. You can out more about the canal between the River Arun and the River Wey here.

Pallingham Quay

Pallingham quay is very peaceful now. The river is quiet and the canal never more than a trickle.

There is no road to Pallingham Quay, but there is a footpath.

One way to get there is to walk from the garden centre at Stopham Bridge. It takes about an hour. Or you can use the footpaths across the fields from Pulborough – either way you pass a famous racing stable.

Shipley

When Peter was a tiny baby, he was found on the doorstep of one of the cottages in Shipley. In those days the parish cared for ‘foundlings’ by making them all sleep in a tiny cottage. As soon as they were big enough they had to work for local people – especially farmers.

You can find out more about Shipley windmill here. The TV series Jonathan Creek was filmed at the windmill at the end of the twentieth century.