Mid-18th Century
The Crofts family, with Huguenot and local Sussex roots, establish the long lineage of stewardship.
1850s–1879
In 1879 Blanche Crofts marries Sam Tristram, and the estate’s family name changes to Tristram.
1920s
Guy’s son David marries Rosemary Roberts, whose maternal family had immigrated from Włodowa in Poland.
1980s
Steering it away from post-war intensive farming and towards habitat restoration, hedgerow planting, and gentler farming.
The estate's trustees have actively worked to reintroduce hedgerows, restore wildlife corridors, and heal degraded landscapes.
2018
We plant the first vineyards at Titch Hill on south-facing chalk slopes - Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier - laying foundations for Titch Hill Wines.
2020s
Further vine plantings include 12 disease-resistant PIWI varieties.
Titch Hill Wines is established as a natural, minimal-intervention wine label, part of the estate’s broader regenerative approach to land and community.
In 2022 we took Titch Hill Farm into in-hand farming. This is the first time that our family has farmed the land in the estate's 250-year history.
In 2022 we took Titch Hill Farm into in-hand farming. This is the first time that our family has farmed the land in the estate's 250-year history.
We planted our first vineyard consisting of 8.5 acres of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier in May 2019. It's on a south-facing chalky slope of the Sompting Downs, nestled between Worthing and Steyning and 3km from the sea.
In 2023 we planted more vines on our newest site in the curving Coombe at the heart of our farm. Here we put in 12 different varieties of hybrid or 'PIWI' grapes.
These grapes are bred for their disease-resistance properties allowing us to spend more time on the things we care about, like developing soil health and nurturing the vines with closer management.
Our vineyard is integrated within the patchwork of the surrounding farmed landscape and is buzzing with wildlife - bees, butterflies and much more.
We have planted mixed native species hedges for windbreaks and have retained broad grass margins where cowslips and other wildflowers thrive.
This, plus adding to our adjacent conservation woodland plantation, means that the vineyard and its hedgerows connect the woodland wildlife on three sides.
Titch Hill Farm is a mixed farm, principally cropping wheat and barley and with a growing number of sheep and cows. We have a herd of pedigree Sussex Cattle, the ancestral breed for this area, and are expanding our flock of Sussex Southdown sheep,a diminutive breed well-suited for maintaining and ameliorating our vineyards.
With a focus on polycultural agriculture, we have been introducing new regenerative farming rotations and techniques. We have enhanced the habitat for ground-nesting farmland birds such as grey partridge, lapwing, and corn bunting. The farm's patchwork landscape, with permanent grass, arable and leys, and small woods and hedgerows, is great for wildlife.
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