Subject: Ashurst Wood / PRAWNS (was) Re: Is this &quot;country&quot; still existing?<br/>
Date: Jan 29, 2003 @ 15:09<br/>
Author: rapidoeurope &lt;rapidoeurope@yahoo.com&gt; (&quot;rapidoeurope &lt;rapidoeurope@...&gt;&quot; &lt;rapidoeurope@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1836562390">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;John Seeliger&quot; &lt;jseelige@a...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/sussex.htm">http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/sussex.htm</a><br/>
<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>It appears that whoever wrote that story, just doesn&#39;t know what <br/>
they&#39;re talking about. I&#39;ll just correct it for them:<br/>
<br/>
&quot;A small village on the border between East and West Sussex has <br/>
broken away from Britain and declared its independence.&quot;<br/>
<br/>
A small village in the county of Sussex, but on the border between <br/>
administrative East Sussex and West Sussex has broken away from <br/>
Britain and declared its independence.<br/>
<br/>
&quot;East Grinstead now calls itself the People&#39;s Republic of Ashurst <br/>
Wood Nation State (PRAWNS).&quot;<br/>
<br/>
Ashurst Wood now calls itself the People&#39;s Republic of Ashurst Wood <br/>
Nation State (PRAWNS). <br/>
<br/>
[East Grinstead is a big town, not a small village, and is some miles <br/>
away and has nothing to do with Ashurst Wood - apart from being <br/>
the &#39;post-town&#39;]<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
I&#39;ve not heard of Ashurst Wood (aka Ashurstwood) being <br/>
an &#39;independent state&#39;. No doubt it was just a publicity stunt for <br/>
the &#39;millennium&#39; (the article -is- 3 years old!). I&#39;ve only lived in <br/>
Sussex (for university) since mid-2001, and I&#39;ve not heard anything <br/>
about it.<br/>
<br/>
I can understand their despair though.... 77% of their council tax <br/>
goes to West Sussex County Council which is based in Chichester (52 <br/>
miles away by car and that takes 1hr 10mins according to the AA Route <br/>
Planner). I doubt that people in Chichester have even heard of <br/>
Ashurst Wood.<br/>
<br/>
The second tier, Mid Sussex District Council, gets 11% and is based <br/>
in Haywards Heath (17 miles by car; 25 minutes)<br/>
<br/>
The third tier, their very own Ashurst Wood Parish Council (based of <br/>
course in the village), gets a measly 4%.<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Some links I&#39;ve just found:<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/594935.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/594935.stm</a><br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.jimferrie.com/jfmpage8.htm">http://www.jimferrie.com/jfmpage8.htm</a> &lt;- &#39;Minister&#39; admits it&#39;s a joke<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010127182100/http://www.ashurstwood.com/i">http://web.archive.org/web/20010127182100/http://www.ashurstwood.com/i</a><br/>
ndex.html<br/>
<br/>
-Duncan</div>