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Sara Thornton puts Punnetts Town on the map

Punnetts Town is a small village near Heathfield in East Sussex, which only began to appear on maps 200 years ago.
For much of its life its story was linked with the fortunes of two families, one of which gave the community its name, but has now died out locally.
For the latest in ±«Óãtv South East Today's On the Map series, Sara Thornton turned detective to discover how the Punnetts ended up on the other side of the world.

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