Crowborough is the highest ground in the High Weald, though the summit is a water tower and golf course, not open moor
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It’s the highest point anywhere in the High Weald, at 242 metres, and the drop on its flanks is enough to count as a Marilyn. The actual summit sits inside the town itself, shared with houses, a water tower and a golf course, so don’t come expecting wide-open solitude.
What it does have is a literary resident. Arthur Conan Doyle lived in Crowborough for decades, and there’s a memorial to him in the town centre. For a longer walk rather than a summit tick, Ashdown Forest a few miles west or the Crowborough nature reserve just outside town both give more open ground to move through, all of it inside the High Weald.
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