This walk started from the playing fields in Rusper, opposite the Ghyl Manor hotel, and initially followed the Sussex Border Path through Horsegills Wood, past Porters Farm and on to Friday Street. Shortly after Friday Street, the border path turns north, but I continued westwards towards Kingsfold.

Shortly after crossing the railway (The Horsham to Dorking line) and right next to the public footpath there is a moated site marked on Ordnance Survey maps, but as the site is not a Scheduled Monument my expectations were limited to a barely noticeable small dip in the ground of perhaps no more than a foot or two in depth. When I arrived, I was amazed to see that the earthworks were huge and complete, which makes the lack of a scheduling inexplicable. I've since researched the site, and it seems that the island was host to the original Kingsfold Manor House, though no evidence of buildings remains visible on the surface. Whilst now in the Parish of Warnham, the site was previously in the Parish of Rusper and the Kingsfold Family moved their manorial seat into Warnham in the 1600's, into the extant Kingsfold Place, following a tithe dispute with Rusper. The Manor of Kingsfold can be traced back to 1250, meaning that the site is that of a Medieval Moated Manor. Some photos from the site, whilst not the best, have been included below for interest value, with a start and end marker.

After photographing a couple of Tudor era buildings close to the Owl in Kingsfold, I turned north past Tickfold Farm (a large 15th or 16th century farmhouse), Wattlehurst farm (an early 16th century farmhouse) and Bonnetts (a huge, late Tudor, manor house). At Bonnetts I was able to rejoin the Sussex Border path and started to head eastwards again, back across the A24 and the railway and past Ridge Farm, most famous for hosting Oasis whilst they recorded their 'Be Here Now' album on site back in the 90's.

At Ridge Farm, I left the border path again and headed north past the mid 16th century Lower Gages Farm and Fyllsbrook Cottage, a 16th century house. A little further on from here I was able to see Taylors, complete with it's life size elephant and bear, the central portion of which is a 14th century hall house which was extended in the 15th century.

Retracing my steps southwards as far as, and then along, the drive to Lyne House, a mid 19th century country pad, I continued eastwards towards Temple Lane, where I took a quick detour north to a collection of dilapidated 17th & 18th century farm buildings before turning back south and joining the Capel to Rusper Road at Waffle Corner, arriving back in Rusper some 5 hours after departing.

(Clockwise route)

===Kingsfold moated site===

===End of Kingsfold moated site===