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St Mary's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Slaugham in Mid Sussex, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex.The 12th- and 13th-century church, restored in the Victorian era, serves a large rural area of the Sussex Weald, covering three villages [1] (each with current or former chapels of ease of their own) as well as the ancient settlement of ...
The Weald and Downland Living Museum (known as the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum until January 2017) is an open-air museum in Singleton, West Sussex. The museum is a registered charity . [ 1 ] The museum covers 40 acres (16 ha), with over 50 historic buildings dating from 950AD to the 19th century, along with gardens, farm animals, walks ...
Singleton is a village, Anglican parish and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies in the Lavant valley, 5 miles (8 km) miles north of Chichester [3] on the A286 road to Midhurst. The civil parish has a land area of 1,602 hectares (3,960 acres).
Weald is specifically a West Saxon form; wold is the Anglian form of the word. [1] The Middle English form of the word is wēld, and the modern spelling is a reintroduction of the Old English form attributed to its use by William Lambarde in his A Perambulation of Kent of 1576. [2]
Wealden is a local government district in East Sussex, England.Its council is based in Hailsham, the district's second largest town.The district also includes the towns of Crowborough, Polegate and Uckfield, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
Penhurst is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. It is located on the Weald, 4 miles (7km) west of Battle. The parish borders Ashburnham, Battle, Brightling and Catsfield, [1] and shares a parish council with Ashburnham. The parish has few residents, according to the 2001 census Penhurst has just 52 ...
Ashdown Forest in the Sussex Weald provided wood to stoke the blast furnaces. The towns of the Weald in Sussex and Kent were well-placed to capitalise on the new demand. Buxted, for instance, sat on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, an ancient demesne covering some 13,000 acres (53 km 2). Few woods matched the oaks of southern England for burning.
Crowborough is a town and civil parish in East Sussex, England, in the Weald at the edge of Ashdown Forest in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Royal Tunbridge Wells and 33 miles (53 km) south of London. It had a population 20,607 at the 2011 Census. [2]