The late media tycoon, Kerry Packer, caused controversy in the late 1980s when he bought many acres of agriculture land a few miles from Stedham and converted it into a polo centre.
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The narrow, kilometre-long, strip of Ben Stedham's Wood separates Milber from the suburbs of Aller and Newtake: the Iron Age hill fort of Milber Down is at the top of this wood.
In February 2010, James Packer won approval from Chichester District Council for a 327-acre polo complex to be built at Manor Farm, not far from Great House Farm, the 38-hectare polo complex at Stedham, owned by his father Kerry Packer during the 1980s.