The High Weald & The South Downs National Park
Dr Geoffrey Mead SpeakerNet Sponsor
- Regions:
- Surrey, East Sussex, Kent, West Sussex, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, London
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Local interest/professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £100 + travel
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 27th March 2026
- Tagged:
- Geology | Industrial History Social History
Sussex has distinct mini-regions within the county, with the clays and sands of the High Weald giving a different physical, economic and social landscape to the light soils and rolling chalk hills of the South Downs. However the South Downs National Park boundary covers clays and sands far away from the chalk hills. How does this present itself in the 21st century?
Views: 7 | Enquiries: 0About Dr Geoffrey Mead
I was a tutor with the Geography team at the University of Sussex. I specialise in the landscapes of SE England, in both urban and rural areas and I did my doctorate in the suburban growth of the interwar period. I taught adult education for nearly 30 years at Sussex where I worked in the Landscape Studies degree team and was Convenor for Local History. I give talks across SE England to a wide range of groups, from universities to local history societies, gardening groups to WI groups,U3A, Probus and Round Tables. I run weekly classes at local community centres. The most requested from my range of talks are those that combine social history, geography, geology and a 'sense of place'. I can adapt my talks to particular areas or interests.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Dr Geoffrey Mead
- Landscapes of SE England
- The South at Work
- Feeding the Nation-agriculture in the South
- Channel coastlands
- Brighton before the Royal Pavilion
- Sussex Literary Landscapes
- 'Scattered squalor'...'Downland Homes': aspects of housing history
- What is Landscape?
- Resorting to the coast- aspects of holiday history
- Sussex landscapes
- The working coast
- 'A man may have constant employ';Sussex Industrial History,a different view
- The journey to the South Downs National Park
- Brighton: West End - East End
- Hearth & Home: aspects of housing in Southern England
- Brighton's Chalk Pit Furlong: a lost city landscape
- 'Illuminating the Soul': aspects of Brighton's religious buildings
- Brighton: why so different?
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