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Sugar Loaf is still used as a surveyors point today. During the Second World War, the Sugar Loaf became used as an anti-invasion machine gun post. For more information about them you can visit his site: John Fuller Follies

It is thought to have been built in the early 1820s and gets its name from the conical loaf form that sugar was sold in at that time. Believe it or not, it was actually used as a two storey dwelling up until the 1930s. Considering that it is only 15 feet (4.57 m) in diameter it's hard to imagine. For more information about them you can visit his site: John Fuller Follies

It fell into disrepair during the 1950s and when Dennis Baker bought Christmas Farm, on which the Sugar Loaf stands, he donated it to the East Sussex County Council in 1962. For more information about them you can visit his site: John Fuller Follies

In the early 1960's this building was in danger of being demolished. The farmer whose property it rests on was worried about its upkeep and the liability. The 'Repair the Sugar Loaf Fund' was started by Brightling residents and this paid for the first repairs done in 1966. Since then the County Council agreed to maintain the building. For more information about them you can visit his site: John Fuller Follies

It is thought that Simeon Crouch and his family may have lived in the Sugar Loaf in the late 1870s, as family members have been told that one of his daughters, Mabel, was born there in 1879. Relatives of the Lulham family are believed to be the last people to live in the Sugar Loaf. The stone building had two storeys, with windows on each floor. There was a ladder between the two floors and there was also a lean-to kitchen. For more information about them you can visit his site: John Fuller Follies

Also known as Fuller's point, this folly stands 35 feet (10.7 m ) tall in a meadow just off the Battle-Heathfield road. For more information about them you can visit his site: John Fuller Follies

Legend has it that Fuller made a bet that he could see the spire of St Giles, Dallington from his house. Upon realizing that this was not true he had workmen erect this folly in order to win the bet. From a distance this 'Sugar Loaf' structure looks amazingly like a far away church spire. No wonder he won his wager. For more information about them you can visit his site: John Fuller Follies