Dummer Travel Guide

 TygerLyn Says:  This lovely Georgian House is packed with history. Jane Austens sister, Georgia, rented it during the first few months of her marriage. The Duchess of York was brought up in this house and kept her horses in the nearby fields. Her step mother, Mrs R Ferguson, is now doing... 

 TygerLyn Says:  Excellent food and ambience. The food ranges from bar food to haute cuisine. They are open to suggestions. I dislike salmon being smothered in sauce so they bring me a dish of freshly made French Dressing. Pepper and Salt come in mills not out of paper sachets. Prices are... 

 TygerLyn Says:  The nightlife in Dummer consists of Harvest Suppers, the odd pantomime, the occasional cinema evening, bingo night, quiz night , themed and fundraising concerts etc. We like it that way. Harevst suppers - men in tutus, ladies in police uniform, kids dressed as rockers!... 

 TygerLyn Says:  The Dummer Mummers were a traditional acting and music group that would perform at places like outside the Foundry or The Queen Inn. Old photogrpahs show that they wore "rag strips" as costumes with various head gear (the Doctor wore a stove pipe, Saint or King George a... 

 TygerLyn Says:  No street lights (just the beautiful sunsets and the myriad stars of the night sky) so it's either a torch or a flourescent jacket. No pavements either. 

 TygerLyn Says:  On December 30th 2006 a tornado ripped through the village uprooting trees and completely shearing the tops from many ancient beeches (those that were not blown down in the great storm of 1986). Dummer Down Lane, leading from Seven Sisters to Dummer Down House was the most...