Three Cornered Copse is a narrow strip of a wood that runs from the tip of Hove Park right up to the edge of the Sussex Downs near the windmill, and that ever-busy ring road that half-circle Brighton. The wood, on both sides, is bordered by the gardens of suburban housing.
I wonder why the owners of the house whose fence is in the above garden needed it so large? Why were they trying to block out any sight of the wood from their house and garden with such definiteness? they were far more likely trying to shield their house from the wood - or rather, people in the wood. Perhaps Three Cornered Copse is well known for harbouring gangs of teenage vandals, prowling the woods at night, and threatening home owners on both sides of the trees?
Whatever the reason the height of the fence gave this section of the path through the woods a beguilingly sinister air.
