In 1814 appeared the following advertisement:-
Bohemia, A very neat and well furnished farmhouse in the occupation of Mr. Vincett, late of the Bell Inn, Bexhill, has now become a much frequented resort of great fashion. It commands delightful views of the Castle and the Priory, Fairlight and a wide expanse of English Channel. But if this be too enlivening for those who count retirement for meditation, its environs possess equal conveniences and advantages, applying to which is the following quotation from Thompson:-
“Hence let me haste into the Mid-wood shade,
Where scarce a Sunbeam wanders thro' the gloom,
And on the dark-green Grass, beside the Brink
Of haunted Stream, that by the Roots of Oak
Rolls o'er the Rocky Channel, lie at large,
And Sing the glories of the circling Year.”
