Fulking is a village

Village

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 and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the Mid Sussex

Mid Sussex

Mid Sussex is a local government district in the English county of West Sussex. It contains the towns of East Grinstead, Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill....

 District of West Sussex

West Sussex

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, England

England

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. It is located on the north slopes of the South Downs

South Downs

The South Downs is a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen Valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the east. It is bounded on its northern side by a steep escarpment, from whose...

, five miles (8 km) to the north-west of Brighton

Brighton

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. The civil parish covers an area of 628.31 hectares (1,552.6 acre).

There is a country pub

Public house

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 just outside the village, the "Shepherd and Dog" and beside it a spring, where the constant flow of water from the chalk

Chalk

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 strata gives rise to a small stream. Travelling uphill from the stream there is a public tap and horsetrough at the beginning of the street, with a tiled inscription from a psalm in honour of John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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.

In culture

In The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff

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by Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...

 and John Lloyd

John Lloyd

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 "Fulking" is given the definition "pretending not to be in when the carol singers

Wassailing

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come round."